The Aguila Colibri round also makes a great choice when introducing a new shooter to firearms. Federal and Winchester use a crimped brass case in lieu of a shot capsule like CCI, and I have had good luck with these, though when the Federal and Winchester rounds are fired and blow out the crimp you need to be sure you manually cycle the bolt all the way rearward with a semi-automatic to ensure it ejects the empty case cleanly. 12 shot and creates a pattern the size of a paper plate at 8 feet out of my. If noise were not the issue, I would’ve opted for my standby snake round, the CCI. The 20-grain Colibri from Aguila is a great option for quietly dispatching pests or for training new shooters, as there is little recoil and noise. Winchester, Remington, Sellier & Bellot, and Norma also all produce excellent subsonic loads, and these rounds offer far more power than the Colibri round, but a suppressor is required to keep the noise down. I like this round because it’s clean burning and quiet. 22 LR Subsonic on the snake, which launches a 40-grain solid lead bullet at 1,025 fps and a muzzle energy of 93 fpe.įederal American Eagle Suppressor ammo loads a 45-grain copper-plated round nose to 970 fps. If I had screwed a can onto the muzzle of the 22/45, I could’ve used Aguila’s. 22 LR: With so many different specialty loads, this cartridge solves problems while offering an embarrassment of choices. Three shots later, the snake was history. The Colibri cartridges won’t cycle in my Ruger 22/45, and that was the compromise for using a quiet round to dispatch a snake and not disrupt the neighbors. Ultra quiet - even without a suppressor - the Aguila round solved the neighbor issue and the 20-grain bullet with a 420 fps muzzle velocity and 8 fpe of muzzle energy was plenty to send that chic viper to the other side. It’s a tough argument to claim there’s a better training option available. The 22 LR shortage is long over and the ammo remains inexpensive and diverse. As I trotted back to the house in my flip-flops, I was thinking about the second problem: How was I going to shoot this snake without invoking the ire of my neighbors? A gunshot in my neighborhood either goes completely ignored, or Camp Lejeune deploys the Marines. All I could imagine is her striking out at Cooper or clamping down on my big toe. It was dusk, and my German shorthaired pointer trotted right past it. The first problem was a beautiful viper - this cottonmouth could have starred in an episode of Animal Planet - was determined to nest in my brush pile. 22 LR is among the most versatile calibers, in part due to the wealth of different ammunition.

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