Does any ammunition manufacturer produce the old CB Cap or BB Cap Low Power .22 Ammunition any more? If not what is being used as a replacement for squirrels in the more populated areas these days? The pellet rifle has been my choice for a replacement but they are really tough to load under a scope and this Old Timer has trouble holding the small pellets for loading.
I appreciate your help with this!

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CCI still makes them.

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CCI makes a .22 Short CB and also sub-sonic. Also look at Aguila Ammunition SSS Sniper Subsonic .22 60-Grain Rimfire.

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I’ve got a bunch of the older BB caps, the ones in a tin container that are basically a 22 round lead projectile on top of a 22 case that’s about 1/4” tall.

I also have a bunch of older CB caps, also in tins.

Is it possible that some of the above mentioned ammunition is for sale? I could use some if so.
The resident squirrels are harvesting my pecans long before the leaves start falling from the trees, it seems I may have to camp under the trees and wait them out. Nothing against squirrels except their steeling pecans and gnawing my ground neutral power line into the house in two. Still, I will give them their due because they do work for their living.

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Go get em Sam
Feed them those acorns

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I’ll PM a photo or two then we can see if it’s what you’re looking for.

Try Ammo seek. CCI CB shorts are available. I have shot a bunch of them in a Winchester 62A chambered for .22 Short only over the years. Velocity is about what it says on the box, 710 fps. Pretty quiet out of a rifle. Good for Rabbits or Squirrels in residential neighborhoods

CCI has made something called a CB Long since the late 1970’s. They use a 29 grain .22 Short bullet in a .22 Long Case. Only has a few granules of powder. Rifle velocity is a little over 700 fps. They are harder to find in stores than the CCI CB Short version. You may have to mail order them.
Advantages over the shorter case version are that they feed perfectly thru box magazines, and will not leave a residue ring 2/3 of the way inside the chamber like short-cased ones will after extensive shooting.
They will kill squirrels and rabbits with perfect head shots, or forward rib cage shots. Be considerate of the animal. Chose your shots carefully; keep them under 20 yards. Not as much margin for error as regular .22 LR ammo.
I have fired approximately 20,000+ of them in my lifetime; sometimes hunting squirrels, rabbits, and snakes. Killed thousands of pest birds ( starlings, sparrows, crows, etc. ) with both the short and long versions. Much prefer the Long. Probably another 8 to 10 thousand ( mostly birds ) with various full-powered Long Rifle ammo.
Needless to say the CCI .22 CB Long is one of my favorite and most useful rimfire cartridges.
I like the .22 Magnum a whole lot too, in a rifle.

CCI has made something called a CB Long since the late 1970’s. They use a 29 grain .22 Short bullet in a .22 Long Case. Only has a few granules of powder. Rifle velocity is a little over 700 fps. They are harder to find in stores than the CCI CB Short version. You may have to mail order them.
Advantages over the shorter case version are that they feed perfectly thru box magazines, and will not leave a residue ring 2/3 of the way inside the chamber like short-cased ones will after extensive shooting.
They will kill squirrels and rabbits with perfect head shots, or forward rib cage shots. Be considerate of the animal. Chose your shots carefully; keep them under 20 yards. Not as much margin for error as regular .22 LR ammo.
I have fired approximately 20,000+ of them in my lifetime; sometimes hunting squirrels, rabbits, and snakes. Killed thousands of pest birds ( starlings, sparrows, crows, etc. ) with both the short and long versions. Much prefer the Long. Probably another 8 to 10 thousand ( mostly birds ) with various full-powered Long Rifle ammo.
Needless to say the CCI .22 CB Long is one of my favorite and most useful rimfire cartridges.
I like the .22 Magnum a whole lot too, in a rifle.

Another one that works well in populated areas is the Aquila Super Colibri. It uses a 20 gr. bullet at a listed 590 fps. I used a pellet rifle on squirrels when I lived in town in Laramie. It was OK but I switched over to the Aquila in a regular .22 LR rifle. It was quieter than the pellet rifle and much more effective. They’re usually not hard to find. I like them better than the CB loads.

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What damages are the squirrels doing to warrant killing them?

Evading your skillet or grill

the Aquila Colibri are VERY quite.. about like a small twig breaking...

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CCI made a load that is sorta confusing ... on the box cover it is printed
CCI - with " CB " - over " 22 Short " ... below this is " sub-sonic" and below that "Low Noise". Spec's call for 29 gr. bullet (solid point) @ 710 fps .
"Our 22 CB loads keep down volumn and velocity yet knock out targets and pest at close range . "

So this must be CCI's 22 CB load ... I've used them in the past , still have a few but have no idea of availability today ...
Good luck in your search !
Gary

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They taste good in a Jambalaya or Gumbo ... be sure and make a pan of biscuits to go with them .

Squirrel , brown gravy and biscuits will also do .

Gary

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Aguila, .22 LR Colibri, 420 FPS. Larry

Squirrels like us better than we like them. They want to live with us. If you live in a rural area you WILL have squirrels living in your house. They are very clever and persistent. Nothing like sitting in your favorite chair and watching TV and have a squirrel run across your feet and disappear down the floor vent for heating and cooling. You get to sweep up their droppings and mop up their chosen spots to urinate. Trap them and kill them or live with them.

CCI .22 Short CBs are available from several vendors listed on ammo seek. Good luck with finding Aguila Colibri.

Almost every place I have lived, I had squirrels as residents in my backyard trees. I never had any problem with them getting inside my house or attic. That is probably because there are no openings in my house to allow their access. I enjoy having them as guests in my yard and seeing them frolic. I even feed them cobbed corn and peanuts in the shell just to keep them around. The only damage they have ever done to me is plant acorns in my wife's outdoor potted plants. And my cats love to watch them play from their perches in my sun porch. They would gladly eat them if they could get out. When I was a kid I hunted squirrels in the woods with a .22, but I can't say I enjoyed it much, and felt that the small amount of meat I got that way was not worth the effort. I have no quarrel with squirrel hunters who eat their prey, I just choose to not be one of them.

Nope. Not so.

I loved it, but I didn't get many. Mostly just enjoyed the time in the woods. Best part was my uncle teaching me how to see them,-- sometimes just a tuft of hair around a limb.

Now we have them outside our front picture window, providing entertainment around the pecan trees. Lately, we have another guest digging up pecans or something in the front yard, caught on game cameras in the middle of the night. He's a real bushy type of squirrel, black with wide white stripes....

The squirrels have been gnawing on the aluminum ground neutral with the power line into my/our residence. That can cause some serious small appliance problems and even more serious major problems in your electrical system; ie well pump & AC or heating unit. Does this answer your question?

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S&WHF 333 S&WCA 2198

The house I lived in for 29 years before moving in to my new smaller house built to accommodate my aging needs was very close to my 8 acre woods. Sitting outside one day I watched a squirrel climb right up my brick wall to the roof. Found out there were 8 squirrels living in my attic. Took a while to kill them all and patch the hole right at the base of the chimney. I have been here on 5 acres for three years. Don't have a woods, just a tree line with huge old trees. There is a family of squirrels
living in the outside vent pipe of my clothes dryer with a nest under the hood of the dryer. An unused John Deere tractor sitting beside my garage has a family of squirrels living under the hood. They are game animals but very invasive rodents that like to chew on wiring insulation.

Floured and fried squirrel with milk gravy, mashed taters, and biscuits is a fine meal too.

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The old church next yo my house had an infestation of skwerls and asked me to dispose of some. 2 consecutive weeks they has them short out the wiring and land partially fried into the services. Happened my mother grandmother and aunt loved squirrel. I used either the 22 CBs or 22 BBs...and a Sheridan 20 ca pellet rifle to a bit more than decimate the varmints. There were a lot of squirrels round there. Most everyone in town got one or two...at least the ones who wanted to eat them. After over a 120 I got tired of skinning them. Next three years they were i plentitude...Owls in the Belfrey too. Owls are hard to kill with a rifle...ain't much meat in all them feathers. The church finally cut down the dozen or so walnut trees round the church...then the big ol pecan. At the same ranges the pellet rifle killed 'em as well as the BB caps...the CBs were better...I used my old Win M-69...or the Sheridan. I had to use the Sheridan inside the Church itself.

Truer Words were never spoken ...

I will Second this motion and pass it !
Gary

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Squirrels, and their predilection to chew the wires of motor vehicles, have cost me literally more than a thousand dollars in repairs. I generally have a live and let live approach to wild animals around my house. I don’t so much mind them eating the bird food and occasionally tearing up a bird feeder, but enough is enough on the vehicle repairs. Any squirrel I see near a vehicle will be killed without remorse, if I am able. If they stay away from the house/vehicles and mind their own business, they may survive. Maybe. Likewise, I’m done hauling away raccoons. I’ve transplanted dozens of the nasty things. No more.

Where I live, I can use appropriate weaponry. My weapons of choice for reclaiming my property are a Marlin .22 Magnum rifle (raccoons) and a Mossberg .410 bore slide-action shotgun (squirrels). I’m ready.

Add a side of polk greens wilted with hot bacon grease, or maybe a fresh garden salad (in season).

That's about as good as it gets!

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