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I was hunting quail in the area of the Temblors yesterday and being that I love cottontail - as in stew - not as in my garden - and I prefer to take them with a .22 instead of a shotgun if possible, I went looking for some "green" ammo to shoot my food with - so, after a moderately successful quail hunt with my two sons, we were cleaning birds and noted a cottontail in the bushes nearby. I was carrying a stainless single six in the truck and quickly loaded with the green stuff, walked to about 10 yards and fired a shot at the rabbits head, missed high, and then when it froze, shot it through the ribs - bullet hit it behind the left rib and exited the right shoulder taking out both lungs and the liver. The sharp shoulder of the bullet cut a full diameter hole through and through - bunny flop followed by the blow of grace to the head and dinner was ready to be prepped. I found the bullet to work exceptionally well as it cut a full hole. I have shot innumerable rabbits with a plethora of rounds and 22lr rounds fall into to categories IMHO - hp that act like solids along with the solids - and HP's that expand (out of handguns is different that rifles mind) the winchester PP load is one of my fav's - and I had not expected this round to expand out of a revolver and it evidently did not I am completely happy with how this load worked on game from a handgun and will carry it by choice when rabbit hunting in the condor zone and maybe the non-condor zone. Now it's about 9 bucks a box, but we are not talking about plinking here, we are talking about high velocity killing dinner here. I would welcome the experience of others, especially as one rabbit does not a broad sample make.
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