Yep, if it reduces the sound it's a supressor according to the BATFE.
David
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I have lived "in town" for the last 5 years. My house is the first house in town the city limit sign is in my front yard. We don't see many opossums but in the last 4 years I have dispatched 17 groundhogs from the backyard in broad day light and nobody has heard a thing. 40% of those were with .22 LR from a bolt action rifle the rest were with CCI .22 short CB loads 29gr solid from the same bolt rifle. I have used a Ruger Single Six though one time and it was fairly quiet with the CCI shorts as well.
we don't have armadillos where i am, but we always referred to them as possum on the half shell.
I would think a howitzer would do just fine and draw very little attention.
In New Zealand we find possum sunning themselves on the side of the road and sometimes closer to the middle of the road. They lie like that for days without moving.
We shoot them with silenced 22's at night with spot lights.
If a quiet 30 cal is being called for, what about a pellet driven by one or two grains of bullseye.
Good morning
Wrist Rocket and a caliber .30 ball bearing. If someone already noted this procedure I did not read all the previous. Anyway aim for the earlope.
Then you will want to start a nearby vehicle for tire tread application.
Mike in Peru
I never was what a guy would call good with a wrist rocket (not exactly what we called them back then) but I had a friend when we were kids that could nail a squirrel of the top of a telephone probably 9 out of 10 shots.
There is a video out that I have seen of a guy that just doesn't miss anything with one.
I think you are all trying to corrupt me.
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Don't you just call 'yer mate the turtleman or swamp people or anaconda man. croc swimmer wrestler bloke.
Just in ...vite some of 'yer kin folk around for a barbie.
Just blast it with a shottie and yell out don't worry dear just another one of those F@%kin snakes.
For those who do not have a lathe, a co. in Anchorage, AK, makes a line of inserts and adapters, for both rifles and shotguns.
I have an adapter to fire .22 rf in a .223 Handi, it does work, it is not convenient, but it works.
I also have a .38sp/.357 mag adapter for 20 ga. it was made by Numrich some 40 years ago it works and a factory .38sp is not very loud when fired from a 20ga with a 24" barrel.
I am sure some minimal loads would be even more quiet.
The co. in Anchorage is MCA Sports.
How quiet can subsonic, light shot load 12ga shotguns be? Another question, how effective and accurate would a sabot'ed round ball be in a shotgun? What distance are we talking here, 20yds? A steel ball would have enough speed to do the job at almost inaudible (to the neighbours) levels. It doesn't matter if there is some noise as long as it doesn't sound like a gunshot.
Gloolits
Here is the link to my experiments. By the way, consider leaving a can of tuna on your neighbor's porch and let them deal with the critter.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ghlight=possum
Stuff 4 or 5 grains of unique in that '06, put in a tuft of filler and force a lead round ball in the end of the shell so it's tight. You can to that with a common bench vice. That is how I reloaded round ball in 38's for years before I ever got a press. Voila .....Quiet homemade small game whacker ......
Ohio Rusty ><>
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leaving a can of tuna on your neighbor's porch
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start a nearby vehicle for tire tread application
My earliest loading and LE mentor's weapon of choice was the 4-cell Kel light. May he rest in peace, he REALLY hated possums.
For the record, I did work one up for the garand, 2.2 gr titegroup, 311299 boolit: slow slow. penetrates a pine 2x4. And quieter than a subsonic 22.
Was hitting a foot low at 25 meters, so adjusted the sights up, lands at a 40 degree angle.
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