cci 22 mag bullets?

Originally Posted By: Shotgunner6264I thought that the tnt had knock down. wat holds it bac? does the bullet fall apart at the surface and dont penetrate?

Originally Posted By: 2muchgun
The TNT is a very frangible bullet. It does not penetrate deeply. Good for whacking crows and such that you don't want to save. Messy on small fur bearing critters. Made a mess of the porcupine he shot, anyway. I would not use one them coyote/fox.

 
Originally Posted By: RePeteHave you tried the 50gr Federals?
They seem to have a pretty good track record "punchwise".
If I was gonna hunt Coyotes with a 22Mag that would be the one I'd look to.
Fortunatly I only shoot Coon and Cats with mine cause I'd hate to think about switching.
Luck


TNT's suck. Grey box is good. The 50gr Federal is really good. FWIW.
 
Originally Posted By: SmokelessOriginally Posted By: RePeteHave you tried the 50gr Federals?
They seem to have a pretty good track record "punchwise".
If I was gonna hunt Coyotes with a 22Mag that would be the one I'd look to.
Fortunatly I only shoot Coon and Cats with mine cause I'd hate to think about switching.
Luck


TNT's suck. Grey box is good. The 50gr Federal is really good. FWIW.

Save your breath.
 
Yeah, the TNT accuracy out of my Marlin was not fantastic, but I learned quickly that if you did not have a sponge handy, the squirrel was not going to make it into the stew pot. They were vaporized to large extent on face first longitudinal shots, the heads disappeared on standing shots, and don't even miss one and hit it in the back... They are remarkably destructive, but just were not accurate. I found the other offerings in CCI much more well suited to squirrels, and eventually went back to the .22 LR for those because the .22 Mag was just too much horsepower on target. My .22 LR was more accurate anyway, so it was a win-win to go back.
 
Here is a pic of a small fox I shot with the 30gr. TNT CCIs. On small game they are devastating but I wouldn't shoot anything larger than a coon with them, and thats our small southern coons, about 15-20 pounds.

You can see the entrance wound is quite large.
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I have shot both TNTs and 40gr. Winchesters into wet newspaper at 50 yards. The TNT fragments within a couple inches. The Super-X penetrates much more and mushrooms almost like a Nosler Partition.
 
ha. Alright point taken stick with the winchester grey box or get me some federal 50 grain. Thanks for the input. ALso one other question. Are soft point .22 mag bullets any good on coyotes?
 
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Yes, a 40gr. Winchester in the vitals will kill any coyote within 100 yards or so. Like I said before, they act just like a miniature big game bullet.
 
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Ive killed coyotes with RWS FMJs, HPs CCI +Vs, Win FMJ, HPs, Supremes, OSSI 35gr. coyote killers. But Ive killed more coyotes with the Win 34g. Supremes than anythng else. The quickest kill on yote was with the CCI +V! Those are bad little bullets! Average velocity out of my Ruger was 2,350fps.! You can kill things with that kinda speed.
 
Originally Posted By: doggin coyotesI was the 2nd man to step foot on the moon.
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Didnt you also write for a magazine & have your own tv show?

We could all learn a lot if you did.
 
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