No Gunpowder .22Lr Rounds

[zhyla]

Originally Posted by maxicon

Depends on where you live, but in general, discharging firearms within the city limits is illegal, regardless of the power of the rounds.

Figures. Probably for the best - I could see grabbing the wrong mag and accidentally punching a hole in the neighbor's house.

[Brasspolisher]

I don't have any experience with these rounds, but if you want another source besides Natchez (at a lower price, at least at the moment), they turned up in a 'deals' email from JGSales earlier in the week:

22LR Aguila 20GR Super Colibri Solid Point. 50rd Box - $3.19

[U2BassAce]

Originally Posted by bigthaiboy

I have a 500rd box of the Aguila Colibri ammo. Comes in two "loads": 375fps and 500fps. Natchez's suggestion of shooting a .22LR in your living room is inadvisable. A 20grn lead bullet traveling at 375fps or 500fps can definitely do some damage.

I have shot them in my garage, and at 15ft, a 20grn bullet traveling at 375fps will bury itself in a wood beam. After seeing that, I wouldn't want to get shot by one.

Very cool to shoot though. Will not cycle a semi-auto at all. Quieter than an air rifle, if shot from a rifle. But loud if shot from a pistol with a 3" barrel.

I shot the 375s they will go through a full 1 gallon plastic milk container when shot out of a 5 inch barrel from 30 feet away. Don't ask me how I know. BTW pretty loud. About like a nail gun.

[stfrog]

I have used them in my walther p22,But they would not work in my ruger mk3.The round is to short.

[bigcalidave]

Originally Posted by bohoki

i bought a whole case of them about 8 years ago

the stuff is kind of corrosive it has just about ruined my remington pump

What's corrosive? There is no powder! The thing I found shooting these is they leave a LOT of lead in the barrel, like I have shot them until a rifle stops shooting before.. Then you gotta ram out all the lead and clean the heck out of it.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

It all depends on where you live. Many places only have restrictions on shooting outside of your home. I was under the impression that you can set up a plinking lane in your garage and not run into any issues. At least according to the local gunsmith and the cops that frequent his shop. Personally I like the CCI CB Longs. They don't cycle any SA actions either. But they do a number on rabbits, ground squirrels and feral cats out to about 40 yards. I mostly use them to avoid disturbing the neighbors. Not because shooting is illegal there. But mostly so I don't have to field any questions about what happened to their cat Fluffy, after repeatedly telling them that it was trying to attack our chickens...

[troysland]

My brother bought a box of these and ran them through his Colt Umarex M4 before reading the box. Bad Idea. He bent to all hell my set of cleaning rods trying to push the stuck bullets out of the barrel. We counted about 4 total but hard to tell. It was more like 4 small chunks of lead. It left a lot of lead fouling in the rifling as he also destroyed my boresnake by running it through before a good copper brushing! It tore up like a dental floss wrapped around a shoelace. Sorry, that's the best visual I could come up with. Moral of the story, read the box!

[beemaze]

Lead fouling occurs with any lead projectile. So yea, cleaning's a ***** if you don't do it more frequently than you would do with FMJ ammo.

As for the primer, I am not aware of it being corrosive. FYI, most corrosive ammo is corrosive because of the primer, not the powder....

I've shot it through an old bolt action Remington and my sons' Davy Cricket (great for training the little ones BTW) without any corrosion issues. One of my buddy's in Vegas shoots his Colibris through his Walther G22 (Herons killing his Koi fish!). Obviously, he has to cycle the bolt manually. Oh, and the Herons don't like the lead either lol.

[jsmith8918]

I've used them only occasionally in the garage to check function after tinkering with angles on firing pins and such. Good for that role. At a distance of only 15 yards, the drop is significantly noticeable compared to a standard load so you can't really use them to sight it for any other load.

[jdberger]

great stuff for pigeons.

My roommate and I used to come home from class and do a little pest control til the GF came home from work one day to find one flopping in the driveway.

She wasn't amused....