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Predator Hunting => Trapping => Topic started by: foxtrot on July 28, 2009, 10:30:31 PM

Title: 22 ammunition
Post by: foxtrot on July 28, 2009, 10:30:31 PM

Just wondering what 22 ammunition is best suited for dispatching raccoons caught in traps?

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: swarter2 on July 28, 2009, 10:32:10 PM

volocitors are good hollow point

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: foxtrot on July 28, 2009, 10:52:14 PM

Not familar with that one,who makes it and is it a short or long rifle?

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: buerysgrove on July 28, 2009, 11:05:24 PM

I use shorts.

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: foxtrot on July 28, 2009, 11:14:25 PM

I have used shorts with fairly good results but still get an exit hole if the shot isn't placed just right.Is there such a thing as a short hollow point or something low velocity with a lot of expansion?

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: CoyoteJeff on July 28, 2009, 11:25:40 PM

I dispatch them the same as I do a fox. Tap and stand. The biggest reason I do that is because most of my coon are caught in a fox or coyote set and I don't want the gun shot residue at the set. The only thing I shoot is a coyote.

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: foxtrot on July 28, 2009, 11:28:48 PM

what do you use for yotes?

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: CoyoteJeff on July 28, 2009, 11:34:18 PM

22 long hollow points. I try to hit them right behind the front leg with the first shot. If that doesn't make it drop the next one is in the head.

Title: Re: 22 ammunition
Post by: waterfowler1183 on July 29, 2009, 10:10:26 PM

If the coon isnt in a drowning set he gets a 22 Cb to the head.  Foxes and Coyotes get the womp and stomp and I kneel on em while I remake set. Coyote gets a lot harder womp than the foxes.  Skunks get a lethal injection because I save the essence and dont want em to spray.