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PTsideshow:
Has any anyone on the forum, used the newer lower power/quiet ammo. Somebody was talking about them. And I was wondering about them and if there are much difference between brands as he is one of these brand specific type guys. Online isn't much better in the info as it seems to be about 50/50 on which ammo is better, that like Beer, women, Nascar, people have favorites and that is that.  :thumbup:

Scuba1:
It depends on what you want to use it for ... you will have to be a bit more speciffic in order to get some pointers. Its different if you just want to shoot sub sonic because
 of silencer use, close range animal dispatch for trapped critters, plinking ... hand gun or rifle ... semi auto or bolt action/ single shot etc. Give us a clue and then I can give you a pointer in the ( for me ) right direction.

ATB

Michael

Lew_Merrick_PE:
PT -- The answer is, it depends.  (Betcha didn't see that coming from me, didya...)

There are a number of areas within the supply chain at which someone can reduce their mark-up and create cheep ammo from even the high end, match grade, ammo.  This rarely happens, but is has on occasion.

That said, the main cost in producing ammunition is blending & mixing (called agglomerating) and sizing the propellants for the load.  If this is done right, the main bad-nasties that eat away at your barrel are entrained such that, for the most part, they reach past the end of your barrel before precipitating out.  Many suppliers of cheap ammo are, shall we say, less than careful about such things.  The older the ammo is, the more likely it is to leave lye and/or nitric acid sitting in your barrel.  Really old cordite-based ammo can even explode (rather than deflaggerate -- what you really want your propellant to do) in your barrel and create a (shall we say) seriously unhealthy situation.  (This is rare, but it does happen upon occasion.)

Projectile speed is a function of: slug mass, length of the barrel, propellant load, and the gas generating capacity of the propellant (known as the pik factor).  Subsonic rounds do not create a sonic boom as they fly -- something desirable under certain circumstances...

Scuba1:
There ye go, now you have two "it depends" answers, Ye can't get more precise then that now can  ye  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

ATB

Michael

PTsideshow:
As of a couple nights ago, a skunk strolled through the yard around dusk. I was thinking not to close varmint dispatch if they choose to get into the live trap (no more than 25/35 feet). As everybody that I have contacted agrees that it will spray. So Be prepared to make it assume yard temperature before dosing with tomato juice, hose off and bag and tag!
And some plinking at paper targets in the yard about the same distance. The trapper across the street said him and his kids almost adults, use them in the house for practice. No wife to complain any more.

It is a pre 1919 Savage model19 NRA match 22LR, a friends father used it for the ROTC at Harvard or Yale back in the early 1920's. Being in the city I don't need to add to the sounds of ware fare at night whether it is loud gun shots or the sound of the now legal anti tank, and bunker buster fireworks That are sold at the new fireworks superstore in the old large grocery store, around the corner and down the street.  :doh:  :thumbup:

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