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Posted: 5/29/2010 6:19:28 PM EDT
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I can't believe I haven't shot this before!!
Picked up a brick today. Very, very quiet in my lever action .22 A bit louder in a pistol, but still not bad at all. Anybody have problems with a stuck bullet in a rifle? |
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I run them thru a Remington Nylon-66 with zero issues... doesn't cycle the action. But has the tree rats beggin' for mercy.. lol
I also use them in the .22 conversion with horrible extraction, mostly have to pry them out or use a rod... but at 25 to 30 meters I can put 5 in the same hole. 
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I shot a rabbit with them out of my 10/22, first shot hit it in the head, just stunned it - no blood. Second shot went through the eye and dispatched it. I honestly couldn't believe that the first shot didn't penetrate until I inspected the wabbit.
I wont be shooting at anything alive with them again..... |
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I shot a rabbit with them out of my 10/22, first shot hit it in the head, just stunned it - no blood. Second shot went through the eye and dispatched it. I honestly couldn't believe that the first shot didn't penetrate until I inspected the wabbit. I wont be shooting at anything alive with them again..... after about 30 yds they are done... and drop like a stone. |
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I spent a good deal of my time testing this round and must say I was impressed by it but you must fallow a few rules.
Good hits are NECESSARY this means accurate shots within 25 yards. the trajectory is like a rainbow...learn every inch of it from 0-25 yards to get good hits. Personally I like to set up full pop cans every 5 yards and learn the holdover. if the wind is over 5 mph forget about hitting anything over 20 yards. penetration is around 4-6 inches depending on what organs it travels through but it is significantly reduced if bone is hit |
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My thoughts:
1) The bullet will be stopped by the insole of a dairy/wader boot. Very little penetration 2) Best used in a single shot to see if they exit the barrel 3) When shooting say, 50 yards in a mild breeze, expect the drop to be in YARDS as well as the yaw from the wind. I once shot a (nuisance/pest bird) at 10 yards. It bounced off the bird; took off maybe 2 or 3 feathers. Took an eye shot to put the bird down  Never again for live animals, it's just cruel.
Just start stocking up on standard velocity ammo and get your barrel threaded, it is MUCH more fun!! |
| I shot them from a Mossberg M44 all the time, and they were just dead quiet. I had one stick in the barrel - actually, it didn't really "stick", it just didn't get all the way out - I fired it, noted that nothing hit the target, and happened to look at the muzzle - and there it was, 95% out of the muzzle, just hanging there. |
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Aguila Super Colibri is listed at 575fps 20 g. bullet
Aguila Colibri is listed at 375fps 20 g. bullet Both are pretty darned slow and they drop off pretty severely. But they are quiet! There's a place for all ammo, not knocking the Colibri brothers. For keeping the neighbors in their state of ignorant bliss, I like CCI CB Longs with a 29 g. bullet at 710fps. The CB Longs in my 77/22 are quiet, fairly comparable to my pellet rifle. The sound they make hitting a plywood backer is louder than the sound exiting the bore. |
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Aguila Super Colibri is listed at 575fps 20 g. bullet Aguila Colibri is listed at 375fps 20 g. bullet Both are pretty darned slow and they drop off pretty severely. But they are quiet! There's a place for all ammo, not knocking the Colibri brothers. For keeping the neighbors in their state of ignorant bliss, I like CCI CB Longs with a 29 g. bullet at 710fps. The CB Longs in my 77/22 are quiet, fairly comparable to my pellet rifle. The sound they make hitting a plywood backer is louder than the sound exiting the bore. At 25yards, in my Henry .22 rifle, point of impact difference between the Aguila Super Colibri 20 grains solid point, and the Aguila Super Extra subsonic 38 grain hollowpoint is around 1/2" At 50yards, it is definately a bigger drop. I havent measured it, since I don't bother shooting the Super Colibri at that range. I knly know its a big drop cause I sometimes just shoot whats left in the tube before reloading after moving back to the 50yard mark in my home range. |
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Quoted: I run them thru a Remington Nylon-66 with zero issues... doesn't cycle the action. But has the tree rats beggin' for mercy.. lol I also use them in the .22 conversion with horrible extraction, mostly have to pry them out or use a rod... but at 25 to 30 meters I can put 5 in the same hole. http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r250/k5jmp/starting%20over/HPIM1688.jpg I could not get them to shoot that well at 5 yards..I was just shooting some at 7 and it was like a shotgun pattern rather than a group.. |
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I run them thru a Remington Nylon-66 with zero issues... doesn't cycle the action. But has the tree rats beggin' for mercy.. lol I also use them in the .22 conversion with horrible extraction, mostly have to pry them out or use a rod... but at 25 to 30 meters I can put 5 in the same hole.
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r250/k5jmp/starting%20over/HPIM1688.jpg You must have gotten the MATCH super colibri cause outta the 2k or so Ive shot, nothing would have come close to that group at 30m. I find this round to be pointless considering a red ryder bb gun equals it....stick with cb longs or shorts 
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| The super colibri I have shot has never got stuck out of the 22s I have shot it through, but it is pretty inaccurate stuff. There is really no reason anyone should be buying it at all. CB Longs are faster (750fps), much more accurate, and also close to silent out of rifles. It is more expensive, but its not a lot of money. |
| I shot a bunch of squirrels with them and never once have one not drop dead on the spot wth the first shot. I dont see how all these guys say they dont penetrate rabbits unless they are shooting them from over 30 yards. I do prefer the cci cb longs though they are just as quite and do everything better. |
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