Stand_Watie
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This has a practical application for me as I have a pest problem that requires dealing with and I need something very inexpensive to deal with it. .22 ammunition seems to be my only affordable recourse. I've tried the .22 ratshot and they don't kill (or even seem to have any effect on) sparrows at the range of 25 to 50 feet. I live in the country with neighbors about 200 yards away on one side, about 3/4ths of a mile on two sides and about 2.5 miles to the nearest houses on the remaining side. I don't want to fire regular .22 ammunition at an upwards trajectory in any direction.
I thought maybe some of you math whizzes on here could tell me how to go about determining just how far a .22 "CB cap" will fly if fired upwards at the optimum angle to fly the farthest to determine in which, if any, direction it is safe to shoot.
I bought a box of Aguila 'super colibri' shells and a box of CCI 'CB long' shells yesterday, and did a little testing this afternoon. Here's the results so far.
35 yards
Colibri ------- 4 inches low average
CCI --------right on the money
50 yards
Colibri --------18 inches low average
CCI --------2 inches low average
75 yards
Colibri --------36 inches low average
CCI --------11.5 inches low average
100 yards
Colibri -------- Unknown/off target completely
CCI ---------29 inches low average
Incidentally I emailed Aguila requesting the maximum range of their cartridges and didn't receive any reply (probably afraid of liability), CCI makes a "range 1.5 miles" claim on their ammo box which I don't believe for a minute.
So - any ideas for further testing?
I thought maybe some of you math whizzes on here could tell me how to go about determining just how far a .22 "CB cap" will fly if fired upwards at the optimum angle to fly the farthest to determine in which, if any, direction it is safe to shoot.
I bought a box of Aguila 'super colibri' shells and a box of CCI 'CB long' shells yesterday, and did a little testing this afternoon. Here's the results so far.
35 yards
Colibri ------- 4 inches low average
CCI --------right on the money
50 yards
Colibri --------18 inches low average
CCI --------2 inches low average
75 yards
Colibri --------36 inches low average
CCI --------11.5 inches low average
100 yards
Colibri -------- Unknown/off target completely
CCI ---------29 inches low average
Incidentally I emailed Aguila requesting the maximum range of their cartridges and didn't receive any reply (probably afraid of liability), CCI makes a "range 1.5 miles" claim on their ammo box which I don't believe for a minute.
So - any ideas for further testing?