Wow, that's nice. Can anyone make that cool silenced noise they use in the movies, but still be reasonably lethal?
Floridians Could Soon Get The Right To Hunt Animals With Silencers
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Wow, that's nice. Can anyone make that cool silenced noise they use in the movies, but still be reasonably lethal?
Ah the hilarity of squirrel hunting on my property with subsonics. The sound reaches them first and they jump out of the way at least half the time.
I shoot so many .22 short CB subsonics that my gf finds them in the pockets of most of my clothes.
Out here we have only ground squirrels. Some guys shoot them, many poison them. I leave them be. When one of their towns appears, it's only two or three weeks until the badgers and owls show up and clean 'em out, and I like seeing those around.
That sound you hear in the movies is a special effect
But you can get that silent with the right set up, and still be lethal in a relatively close distance. After a hundred to 2 hundred feet, that ammo drops severely.This video shows you how loud an Mr556a is without suppressor, and then with suppressor - but still with supersonic ammo. Of course, he's indoors, so it's really loud. This is what the article is referring to, and also what gun control nuts get so alarmed about. Note that it's not silent at all.
Now this is a similar gun (416) with same ammo, suppressor and subsonic ammo. This is close to the rig I have (except the optics and the fact that this is automatic, whereas mine i semi). Note the only reason the guy has ear protection is because of those shooting nearby. You can hear the rounds slicing through the air though if you listen closely.
Now this is a similar gun (416) with same ammo, suppressor and subsonic ammo. This is close to the rig I have (except the optics and the fact that this is automatic, whereas mine i semi). Note the only reason the guy has ear protection is because of those shooting nearby. You can hear the rounds slicing through the air though if you listen closely.
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I went years not shooting them.
My place goes in cycles. Sometimes I'm overrun with rabbits (I don't shoot those). Then maybe the coyotes come or an occasional bobcat and the rabbits are cleared out pretty quick. There is a battalion of about 200 quail running around (I don't shoot them). I used to feed them but realized I was mostly feeding chipmunks (I don't shoot them either). I've seen a badger. A couple of times I've had a full-sized roadrunner hang around for a few months. There is a motorcycle gang of ravens that live on the rock cliff in the front yard. A huge redtail hawk spends a lot of time sitting on my upper power-pole and has a huge nest in a small rock cave/recess in the rock face on the east side.
But the squirrels here aren't like the nice fluffy squirrels you see in forests. These are more like rats really and they started burrowing into the dirt in and around an enormous stone wall that is load bearing for an elevated lawn area above it. The damage started looking... structural. Then they started chewing wires on cars driven by friends or family that were not parked in the garages. When I found a hole dug under the stone turret that the main house sits on I started plinking them.
Iron sights at great distance with .22 short subsonics makes it somewhat unlikely that I'm gonna hit one but sometimes I get a spectacular shot off. I've hit one out at least 70-80 yards with a freaking subsonic out of an old Marlin. A squirrel is an impossibly small target at that distance.
Good stuff. We also have a large number of coyotes around, and I also like seeing (and hearing) them. Occasionally I spot an ermine. They, with the hawks and eagles too, all eat mice, which being in the middle of grain country you can imagine there's a just a few around. Since we sold off all domestic animals over the past couple of years, we welcome all the wild stuff.
When the coyotes come they stay put for awhile and they are bold.
Working outside on irrigation once I had a large male (big, like a damned husky) walk up to within 20 feet of me and lay down (but upright, sphinx position) under a pine tree. Yeah about 20 feet, no exaggeration.
It sounds strange and when I told an ranger friend about it he was alarmed. But it was 112 degrees F and *nothing* behaves normally in that kind of heat. I dropped my tools when he first appeared and I just backed away from him towards the house. I was already at the limit of my heat tolerance and was ready to head back in anyway. I can work outside up to about 110-deg pretty well but sometimes you just start feeling weird and have to immediately stop what you are doing and head inside.
What is an ermine? Cat?
Too many people shoot at coyotes around here, so one would never come that close. Unless maybe it's sick.
Ermines... cute "little fellars", excellent hunters:
One morning a couple of winters ago I was exercising in an outbuilding where I set up my power rack, had a stove warming the place up, and heard something tip tapping in the rafters. Looked around and there was an ermine, in its winter coat like that picture, regarding me with the blackest, most curious eyes I've seen on a critter.