CCI Quiet-22 segmented hp informal test

[Gtscotty]

So I was swinging by my local gun store today for my periodic perusing when I noticed something was strange about the .22lr ammo shelf..... It wasn't empty! Well it was mostly empty, but they did have several boxes of standard velocity CCI, and next to that, a stack of the brand new CCI Quiet-22 segmented hp. I had been waiting for this ammo to show up since it was announced at the SHOT show, so I snatched up as many as they would let me have (3 boxes of each... and I had to haggle for that much).



I had shot quite a bit of the regular CCI Quiet-22 out of my rifles, both with and without a suppressor, so I knew how incredibly quiet the rounds are. What I was curious about was whether the segmented hollow point would really fragment at such low velocities, so I decided to put together a bush league test with a couple bags of water.

I positioned a full quart bag in front of a full gallon bag for the test. A side view of the quart bag can be seen below. The shot hit near the side of the bag, my index finger is poking the entry hole, and the exit holes can be seen between my ring finger and pinky. As you can see the round appears to have fragmented into three chunks before even reaching the gallon bag.



Below is a picture of the entry holes into the gallon bag. There was no exit in the rear of the gallon bag, but apparently, one of the segments perforated the back of the bag before falling to the bottom with the other two segments.



Below are a couple pictures of the three segments collected from the bottom of the gallon bag. Pretty nasty looking!





All in all, I was very impressed this this new .22 round. It is very quiet without a suppressor, and quieter than my air gun with a suppressor. At the same time, unlike most other super quiet .22 rounds (cb longs, colibris, super colibris, etc), the terminal behavior of this round suggests that it could be used to quickly and humanely put down varmints/pests, and would probably be well suited to close range squirrel hunting (given the fragmentation, I would probably stick with head shots).

 

[Gordon]

WOW! I'll back order a brick!

 

[ssyoumans]

I have obtained similar result shooting thru deer park brand water bottles using the 40gr subsonic segmented HPs. They are really thin bottles. Bullet broke up before exiting the first water bottle.
So, you have a choice of 40gr going 700fps with the Quiets, or 40gr going 1050fps with the Subsonics.
Probably the same bullet.

Energy is 45 and 98 ft-lbs respectively. Both are really quiet suppressed, with expected advantage to the slower round.

 

[DM~]

I'll have to give them another try, as i didn't think much of the origional version... I found them to be VERY POOR killers on coon size animals...

DM

 

[Texan Scott]

I had a service buddy who shot a mouse in his house once..
He hated that mouse; it was trap shy. One day he saw it creeping along the baseboard ... grabbed a gun, took careful aim, squeezed off a round - it was disconcerting. Good clean center mass hit, sucked most of its innards down the new 9mm hole in the baseboard.

Maybe a 22 cal dum-dum is an idea whose time has come.

 

[ssyoumans]

I would think these would be great on birds and squirrels. Agree, Raccoons around here are pretty big. Perhaps someone on here has tried and can chime in, but I would prefer more umph for raccoons.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

MR.Coon needs 22 Hi-Power HV HP 36 grain.
BUT I want to try that new round on Squirrels.

 

[788Ham]

I got a box of those recently, haven't tried them on anything outside though, houses too close. I have gotten 3 cottontails with CB Longs though, DRT !

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Are those jacketed or plated? I know every .22 bullet I've ever used was bare lead or plated, but looking at those pics it almost looks jacketed. But I'm viewing them on an iPod and enlarging the pics make them slightly fuzzy.

 

[Gtscotty]

KansasSasquatch,

The bullets are just plated, and, at a glance, look a lot like run of the mill CCI mini-mags.

I wanted to get an idea of what the bullet path actually looks like in a soft solid; since I didn't have any large fruit lying around the house, I had to go with plan B:

This was the largest onion we had in the house. The segmented quiet round (entry on the right) was fired first, and was followed by a CB long (entry on the left).



Below you can see where the segmented bullet exited. It's a little hard to make out in this picture, but you can actually see the three distinct paths made by the segments.



Here you can see the CB long exit hole.



I have used both CB longs and a .22 air rifle for quiet pest elimination, and even squirrel hunting. As far as I could tell, both performed similarly, sometimes requiring a second shot. Remington subsonic is my main squirrel hunting round, and seems to put squirrels down much more quickly than either of the two aforementioned options. I think the quiet segmented round is going to replace CB longs for pests, with a can they have a similar sound level to my ear. BTW, the onion was shot using a SR22P, I'd bet these rounds get about the same velocity out of pistols as they do rifles.

 

[Tempest 455]

They will go through 1" treated wood!