I'd love to use my AR on them, but too loud and not enough stand off from others property. My 17hmr has done excellent on them. All my shots are well within 200yrds.
I'd love to use my AR on them, but too loud and not enough stand off from others property. My 17hmr has done excellent on them. All my shots are well within 200yrds.
Yeah, that's my thing. Current house is a bit wishy washy with safety zones. I've confirmed with immediate neighbors they are okay if I've gotta take care of a fox or a racoon (just over an acre properties). New house I am moving to in a week is 4.4 acres and a bit of it is over 150yds for safety zones. One neighbor said "please kill all the deer you can. Also if you want to hunt foxes, varmints, squirrels, whatever you want". Also the other neighbors have been okay with one of them bow hunting on the back side of our properties.
We have chickens which are coming with us and my wife wants goats. I've used quiets in the past and I'll probably look at just using regular 22lr. Though I'd still like a suppressor at some point for my 10/22.
Distance to coop will probably be a little longer. Right now it is spot on 30yds from my back door, which is manageable with quiets. My experience with my 10/22 zeroed for 50yds with Minimags, I need a 3" hold over with quiets at 30yds. At 50yds, it is about an 8" hold over, which isn't manageable and I don't want to zero my 10/22 for just quiets. The new quiet autos have 25fps and 5gr more to them, so it might be an inch or two less hold over, but still not good.
Coop is probably going to be about 50-60yds from the house by where the veggie garden is going and if something, like a ground pig is on the other side of the garden, it is going to be more like 70yds.
I'd love to use my AR, but WAY too loud for the situation. Basically rimfire only. My concern is with goats if we get coyotes wandering our way. we certainly have them, roadkill yote about 6 months ago out on 32 a quarter mile from my house. I am sure a 22lr could dissuade one, but actually dropping the suckers seems problematic.
I wonder if minimag segmented rounds would be best for what I am handling, or if velocitors is a better choice. Or, hell load 3 mags, one with quiet, one with minimag segment and one with velocitors and pick and choose what I need to handle based on pest and range.
Regular minmags and velocitors are close enough in POI out of my 10/22 to be interchangeable (Velocitors seem to need about an inch of hold under at 50 for my zero to be dead on and at 100 it is about 4 or so inches of hold over, versus about 6" for minimags).
Damned unlikely I'd be taking pot shots at anything over 80yds away as that is basically on to my neighbors' property at the new house depending on which direction you are talking.
As tough as ground hogs are, CCI segmented rounds seem to put them down fairly fast.
At 50yds, it is about an 8" hold over, which isn't manageable and I don't want to zero my 10/22 for just quiets.
Sounds to me like justification for a second 10/22.
Yeah, that's my thing. Current house is a bit wishy washy with safety zones. I've confirmed with immediate neighbors they are okay if I've gotta take care of a fox or a racoon (just over an acre properties). New house I am moving to in a week is 4.4 acres and a bit of it is over 150yds for safety zones. One neighbor said "please kill all the deer you can. Also if you want to hunt foxes, varmints, squirrels, whatever you want". Also the other neighbors have been okay with one of them bow hunting on the back side of our properties.
We have chickens which are coming with us and my wife wants goats. I've used quiets in the past and I'll probably look at just using regular 22lr. Though I'd still like a suppressor at some point for my 10/22.
Distance to coop will probably be a little longer. Right now it is spot on 30yds from my back door, which is manageable with quiets. My experience with my 10/22 zeroed for 50yds with Minimags, I need a 3" hold over with quiets at 30yds. At 50yds, it is about an 8" hold over, which isn't manageable and I don't want to zero my 10/22 for just quiets. The new quiet autos have 25fps and 5gr more to them, so it might be an inch or two less hold over, but still not good.
Coop is probably going to be about 50-60yds from the house by where the veggie garden is going and if something, like a ground pig is on the other side of the garden, it is going to be more like 70yds.
I'd love to use my AR, but WAY too loud for the situation. Basically rimfire only. My concern is with goats if we get coyotes wandering our way. we certainly have them, roadkill yote about 6 months ago out on 32 a quarter mile from my house. I am sure a 22lr could dissuade one, but actually dropping the suckers seems problematic.
I wonder if minimag segmented rounds would be best for what I am handling, or if velocitors is a better choice. Or, hell load 3 mags, one with quiet, one with minimag segment and one with velocitors and pick and choose what I need to handle based on pest and range.
Regular minmags and velocitors are close enough in POI out of my 10/22 to be interchangeable (Velocitors seem to need about an inch of hold under at 50 for my zero to be dead on and at 100 it is about 4 or so inches of hold over, versus about 6" for minimags).
Damned unlikely I'd be taking pot shots at anything over 80yds away as that is basically on to my neighbors' property at the new house depending on which direction you are talking.
As tough as ground hogs are, CCI segmented rounds seem to put them down fairly fast.
My advice on a suppressing a .22 is get a 9mm can. Much quieter with supersonic .22 LR.
Actually that’s a third of the reason I either want another 10/22 or a American rimfire.
Unfortunately my wife doesn’t want me to own more guns. So we’ll see who wins out and when.
Actually that’s a third of the reason I either want another 10/22 or a American rimfire.
Unfortunately my wife doesn’t want me to own more guns. So we’ll see who wins out and when.
You tell your wife when you buy a gun?
What round are you using? 22 round point always lets them get away, or back. 22 hollow point is better and 22 mag hollow point drops them in place or leaves them flopping before death.
What round are you using? 22 round point always lets them get away, or back. 22 hollow point is better and 22 mag hollow point drops them in place or leaves them flopping before death.
Yea, we live in a hollow and I shot the 30.06 sighting in for deer season the first year and heard the echo 3 times. I was like, Damn, the neighbors are going to hate me. Now we get out back with the 9mm and 44cal BP pistol banging away.
The neighbor in front of me had a coon she said was rabid over the dog pen. I think it was just a stupid juvy that wouldn't leave. They asked me to kill it since they don't own guns. I didn't take the shotgun and tried to use the 10/22 with normal 22LR round point ammo as I didn't want to make too much noise. Shot him 5 times in the tree and he hit the ground almost running still. Dumped the last 5 in him and said "Screw the neighbors, and their ears, I'm bring the right size gun next time!"
I've meet all my neighbors and they are fine as long as they know you got a good backstop and being safe. We had some other people over last year that said they could shoot. I found they missed the 10" plate at 20 yards, missed the 3' dirt berm over it and drill a 9mm hole through a small cedar clearly a full 1' over the berm. Some people that say they can shoot, need to go back to the air rifles with the boy scouts, so the boys can teach them.