Squirrel...Is super colibri enough?

My brother tried them without much luck. I prefer CCI quiet.

CCI CB Caps worked just fine from a .22 rifle. Head shots. The neighbors never knew we were gnoshing on squirrel stew.

Colibri is a bit too light and inaccurate past 5 yards, maybe 10, depending on the gun, from what I've tried. I can keep CB Longs inside an inch around 20 yards, but that's about max. Headshots for sure.

They're still very loud out of a pistol.

With an acre on semi-country land...I'd use CBs and try to get close.

All the squirrels where I live keep their distance and shots are usually about 40-60 yards.

Yes. They work, but as Wisco says, in close. 5-10 yards is it. If you can find them, Remington CeeBees work well for me. Still have a small stash of them around here. I have a single-shot .22 and CeeBees will feed into an auto but not cycle it. Quiet out my rifle, healthy pop out of my P22.

Yes, they work. Range-limited, though.

My daughter used them on grandpa's land to dispatch squirrels out to 25 yards. She used her 16" bbl Crickett, with the Crickett 4x mil dot scope. The scope was zeroed for high velocity .22LR to hit at 25 yards. Azimuth was fine with the super colibris, but elevation required her to use the 3rd mil dot down with the Suer Colibri ammo at 25 yards.

She got all thoracic cavity shots, no head shots. Penetrated fine from top or the side with pass-through.

The regular Colibri fodder will barely penetrate a squirrel skull at PBR from a Crickett, surely won't exit skull. Had to use three to dispatch a squirrel in a live trap. Won't do that again. I don;t like squirrels, but a kill in a trap ought to be lights out RFN.

Good luck.

I have used my .177 RWS 34 to kill pesky squirrels up to 20-25 yards, so a .22 of any kind should do the job.

Theres always 30-06, and that , my friend, will definitely do the job......if your having doubts and all......

caribou said:

Theres always 30-06, and that , my friend, will definitely do the job......if your having doubts and all......

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It's better to be safe than sorry. Those little pecan stealers charge when they're wounded.

I've wounded several with Colibris. Not very humane so I switched to shorts. Neighbors are deaf anyway. Last year my wife stopped feeding the birds and the squirrels left at the same time. Problem solved.

Super colibri is supposed to be a 20 grain bullet at 590 FPS.

5 pumps on my Benjamin .22 air rifle is good for 507 FPS witha 14.3 gn pellet, I don’t know how many small animals have been killed with it in its lifetime.

If it was “important” I’d pump it 10 times, against a tree when I was real young that got me to 647 FPS, I learned as an adult after I rebuilt it.

I don’t know a lot of folks that say air rifles can’t kill tree rats.

You have to get close with Colibris. CCI CB caps are the better choice. Use a rifle, much quieter.

I have killed at least a dozen with a standard Ruger 10/22 at 8-27 yards from my bathroom window, which I have renamed "the Texas Book Depository." It requires a headshot, and the Secret Service can't help them.

I live in town so I can't do the shorts thing, so I use the Super Colibri's on cottontails at 5 to maybe a max of 12 yards with 100% efficiency (aka: the bunny died)... so if you're at a similar range and you hit the squirrel in the boiler room it should do the "back-flip-o-death" and fall to earth.

Stay safe!

I've tinkered with this for years, i can tell you super colibris can be accurate out to about 30 yards in some guns. As Wisco said its light , which makes the projectile short and it has trouble stabilizing at most twist rates. Some rifles make a 2 foot group at 10 yards. But i have used them with fine results if the POI is correct. As others have said cci cb longs are about as good as it gets for quiet plinking , not much louder but a lot better accuracy. I have a savage little scout that shoots super colibris well (its extremely worn), a friend of mine has a remington pump 22 thats a smoothbore intended for ratshot and its also accurate with super colibris & its a pump so its nice for backyard plinking. Regular colibris are something else, i tested some but the results were pitiful. If you want a little extra zap the aguila sss , they have a little more pop but its a 60 grain loaded into 22 short cases . Ive had good results with the sss. None ive found to be quiet in a pistol .
Have you seen some of the pcp rifles available now? There are no regulations on length or supressors , ect. Got my eye on the airforce talon ss.

I found the 60 gr. sss deadly on small game to @25 yards, and not very loud, potted many woodchucks with that round.

I found the 60 grain SSS key holed out of most firearms I tried them in.

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I found the 60 grain SSS key holed out of most firearms I tried them in.

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I have seen them tumble too, but still seem to hit the mark. I hit a running racoon with one in front of the back leg, no exit. It tumbled up and was in its front shoulder on the other side and did a ton of damage on it way.

The only time I tried Colibris, I figured out that they'd go 3/4 of the way down the barrel of my CZ 452 and get stuck, and the next round would push it out and wind up in the same spot. No thanks.

I agree with George P. My .177 RWS model 34 has ushered many a tree rat to a dirt nap. I've been using H&N Barracuda pellets. They hit hard.

I've found that CCI CB longs, are quieter. Shot out of a rifle they are pretty quiet.

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The only time I tried Colibris, I figured out that they'd go 3/4 of the way down the barrel of my CZ 452 and get stuck, and the next round would push it out and wind up in the same spot. No thanks.

I agree with George P. My .177 RWS model 34 has ushered many a tree rat to a dirt nap. I've been using H&N Barracuda pellets. They hit hard.

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The Super Colibris won't get stuck. 350 vs 525 fps

What the heck is a Colibri? Sounds like an exotic fish!

It's Spanish for Hummingbird. They are made by Aguila (Eagle) in Mexico.

That's why I don't know about it. I've never bought Aquila ammo.

It's pretty good, just smells weird when you shoot it. I always joke that Aquila uses chicken manure to make it when someone on the range complains.