22 short vs air rifle
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I assure you that you can shoot all the CB shorts you want in the city limits out of a rifle and your neighbor will never hear them. A friend got tired of Black birds roosting in his trees and leaving deposits on his driveway and solved the problem with a Winchester pump rifle and CB shorts
AJ
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I assure you that you can shoot all the CB shorts you want in the city limits out of a rifle and your neighbor will never hear them. A friend got tired of Black birds roosting in his trees and leaving deposits on his driveway and solved the problem with a Winchester pump rifle and CB shorts
You keep thinking that. Here it was 91 degrees yesterday and will be today and tomorrow. There is someone outside all the time during the daylight hours. No more that 30 feet between houses in this subdivision. Someone will hear or see what is going on. 32 years ago when we first moved in and the less houses on the block yes, now no.........
I have had many air guns and am not overly fond of them I have a RWS and a Sheridan...the sheridan is about as loud as a 22 short. Back in the day...I picked up beer and skft drink bottles for deposit money. good days we bought LRs...bad ones we got shorts...the rats at the dump didn't care what we used...but LRs just sounded so powerful
Birds roost in trees right before dark, not in the middle of the day.
My friend that shot the black birds shot from his basement open window so he could shoot almost straight up because the house next door was very close. Out here in my rural area now there is a house about 300 yds away with large trees right next to the house that large flocks of birds try to roost in. Many times right before dark I hear a loud boom and can see the birds leaving the trees. I think the home owner fires a shotgun up in the trees to get rid of the birds right before it gets dark.
The technology on those is 40 plus years old. I can assure you the ones were talking about, with air gun suppressors will blow doors on any Daisy, Crossman or RWS.
Springers, by design are always going to be loud.
and at the end of the day, discharging a firearm in a city or village or town has legal risks, where an air gun is seen as less then a firearm.
To me, air guns have no downside compared to a 22 CB or short and all the upsides. They do everything better with no powder, and less noise and risk.
But in the end, everyone has to make there choice.
HeloMt
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I sometimes grab my Winchester Model 62 and load it up with shorts. I think it holds 19, with one in the chamber. The rest of the 50 round box goes in my pocket. It is a perfect field "walk around" gun. Light, accurate and just plain fun. I'm not against air guns, I have several. But the 62 somehow brings far more joy to an old man on a hike than an air gun ever could.
DWalt
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Remember that the earliest Model 1 S&W revolvers used .22 Short. Probably the earliest American handgun metallic cartridge.
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What's the best .22 Short bear load?
I'm sure glad I don't have to justify what I like to shoot... To anybody!
In 1953 Bella Twin, A 63 year old Cree Indian grandmother, took the world record grizzly with a rifle chambered in .22 long.
Pretty sure Israel's Mossad would disagree ....
DWalt
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I have read stories that Mossad hit teams prefer opening up on their targets using Beretta .22 pistols. Either Bobcats or Model 71s. Both are chambered in .22 LR.
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CAJUNLAWYER
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CB shorts are perfect for back yard wet work.
