![]() Will Colbri's kill? Of course - and probably reliably at 25 yards or less with excellent head or heart/lung shots. The Colbri's just seem like you're opening up yourself to wounding an animal and possibly having them escape to suffer a long, painful death. BUT here's my answer to those two "advantages" - I've never heard of anyone complain about the noise of a 22LR in the woods, and if you're using a rifle of any kind to hunt with - then you should be in an area that can safely handle the limited range of a 22LR anyway. Their advantage? Quiet - which I don't know why that would be a big issue when hunting squirrels, and a lower chance of a miss with a round going on to injure someone behind your target in the line of fire. To me, using Colbri's, which in most rifles don't shoot super accurate, is handicapping you in multiple ways - short effective range, less accurate, and low energy delivered. In my opinion, if you're going to hunt then you should use "enough gun" to humanely kill the animal quickly even with a less than perfect shot. My question is why use Colbri's when you can use something a lot more accurate and powerful with just a standard velocity 22LR like the Winchester Dynapoint hp's? If you want to get rid of rats from damaging your property, noise is an issue with the neighbors, and suffering varmints don't matter just the final results, then Super Colibri will do the job. The CCI CB longs will definitely penetrate a squirrels body. You might consider CCI CBs for a better kill however they are noiser than Super Colibri. If a suffering varmint bothers you in the slightest, I would not recommend using Super Colibri as quick kills are no guarantee. The crippled animal will not be able to properly climb trees, and if the wound doesn't kill him, eventually a dog (or even another squirrel) will do the job. A body shot will cripple and eventually kill the squirrel but it could take from several minutes to a couple of days. Head shoots are a must for a quick kill, however I once hit a squirrel in the head with Super Colibri and the little rascal lingered on for about a minute (even climbed a tree to eyeball me) before dropping. In fact, the dog can kill a squirrel faster than Super Colibri. ![]() I let the dog track the wounded animal down. I have killed a couple of squirrels at the 25 - 30 yard range but they are usually body shots and a bit of luck. I have killed numerous squirrels with Super Colibri, at the 50 ft range or so, however the bullet normally does not penetrate all the way through the squirrel with only one single exception. I suspect the short length bullet is unstable, and like a wild golfing slice, doesn't really start bending offline until further downrange. Super Colibri has plently of flyers and for whatever reason, Super Colibri really opens up after the 50 foot range on my CZ-452 Scout. 75 inch, 5 shot groups at 10 yards and 3-4 inch 5 shot group at 25 yards using a CZ-452 Scout. The light bullets therefore get out of the gun quicker and will shoot lower than the heavier bullets which spend more TIME in the gun while recoiling before the bullet leaves the barrel.What do you mean by "ragged hole" at 30 yards? Less than an inch? What kind of gun are you shooting as I need to buy one. With full power, the heavier bullets spend more TIME in the barrel than the light bullets. This same thing is noticed in centerfire guns when you switch from heavy bullets to light bullets. When you shoot a lighter recoiling load, the gun does not recoil AS MUCH, hence the bullet lands lower on target. Hence, your sight adjustment has this gun movement BUILT IN. Those normal loads cause the gun to recoil upwards before the bullet leaves the barrel. Your sights were probably setup for standard 32-40gr ammo of much higher velocity. It seems counterintuitive that there would be such a difference and am curious whether any Calgunners could explain it.Ī handgun starts recoiling the moment the bullet starts moving. The only anomoly was the low grouping of Colibri in the pre-43. I also shot 50 rounds each of CCI Quiet and CCI SV in each gun and all shots were on target. The Colibri (Spanish for hummingbird)'s 20-grain bullets grouped well but several inches low at 7 yards in the pre-43, shooting double action, but shot to the point of aim in the DAO snubby. Both of these revolvers are very accurate, shooting point of aim with SV CCI ammo, which I use in these guns because HV cases tend to stick in alloy cylinders. 22 LR revolvers, a 1953-vintage S&W pre-Model 43 with 31/2-inch barrel and a contemporary S&W Model 43c DAO snubby. I acquired a couple of bricks of this super-quiet ammo, billed at 500 fps, and was curious to give it a try in two of my.
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