Hunt Reports

[Oldbloke]

Yep, the longer 22lr barrels is left over from peep and open sights. Modern 22lr gains max velocity around 15 or 16". Varies of course. Much after that friction starts slowing it down.

[happyhunter]

Yep, the longer 22lr barrels is left over from peep and open sights. Modern 22lr gains max velocity around 15 or 16". Varies of course. Much after that friction starts slowing it down.

Please explain how the bullet slows down after 16 inch mark in a 22LR barrel?

[Oldbloke]

Just an opinion.
Faorly well known all the powder is burnt at about 16". Pressure would then begin to reduce as the projectile continues down the barrel but there is a small amount of friction between the bullet and barrel, so would begin slowing. Probably not a lot though.
Just my 2 bobs worth. Just makes sense.

[happyhunter]

There's still pressure behind the bullet past 16 inches as the gas from the burning/burnt powder is in a closed system ( heat remains in the system) until the bulllet exits the muzzle. The bullet is accelerating hard and therefore carries a hell of a lot of momentum. My guess is the bullet doesn't start to decelerate until the moment it leaves the muzzle.

I can see where your coming from but I think there is a lot more going on behind the bullet to counteract barrel friction. The only way to know for certain would be to either test it with a chrony wile cutting lengths of the barrel or determine how much force is required to push a 22 cal lead bullet through the rifling (measure the friction) and do the maths... or google it

[happyhunter]

here we go..

Longer barrels give the propellant force more time to work on propelling the bullet.[6] For this reason longer barrels generally provide higher velocities, everything else being equal. As the bullet moves down the bore, however, the propellant's gas pressure behind it diminishes. Given a long enough barrel, there would eventually be a point at which friction between the bullet and the barrel, and air resistance, would equal the force of the gas pressure behind it, and from that point, the velocity of the bullet would decrease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity

[Herdsman]

Oh yeah, that ammo, I know the one

[bigfellascott]

I went to a mates place to help with putting some gates in, whilst there we had a bit of a poke around with the torch and rifles, I managed to nail this fox in the eye at around 140m with the Sako 204 shooting off a bipod on the side of a small hill - I decided to drop the hammer on him before he got behind a big tree and possibly never seen again.



My mate also nailed this pig the next night having a feed on a roo with is 204 Sako

[YoungBuck]

Is there anything pigs wont eat?!

Got this big boy in a state forest not far from me this morning.

[bigfellascott]

Nope pigs will eat each other if the opportunity arises, nice fox mate.

[Heckler303]

Is there anything pigs wont eat?!

Got this big boy in a state forest not far from me this morning.

Is that a Ruger American you got there?


Lovely.

[YoungBuck]

Sure is, in .22WMR. Really like that rifle.

[Releb]

My mate also nailed this pig the next night having a feed on a roo with is 204 Sako

That makes more sense. For a second I was thinking bloody hell! what did you hit the roo with?!

[Heckler303]

Sure is, in .22WMR. Really like that rifle.

They look so nice in the LGS. If only I could afford it. My little Norinco .22 does me well though, even though it has a pretty crap nylon stock.

One of these days when I get a 17 cal rimfire, I'm getting either a savage or a ruger. Does Ruger chamber the American RF in 17HMR?

[YoungBuck]

Yep they chamber them in .22 LR, WMR and .17 HMR
$550 - $600 in Aus.

[on_one_wheel]

I'm seeing heaps of these cat / dog looking critters at the moment.

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[Title_II]

That's like a little babby.

[bigfellascott]

My mate also nailed this pig the next night having a feed on a roo with is 204 Sako

That makes more sense. For a second I was thinking bloody hell! what did you hit the roo with?!

Hit by an exocet by the looks of it. I'll bet that pig and roo will be fully eaten in a few days! There are wild dogs running around that property too so that might be part of the reason why it had been eaten.

We would see the same one each night we went out but the bugger was very cagy indeed, you see a quick glimps of his eyes and then gone! That one will have to be trapped I think.

[Title_II]

I was thinking that had to be a roo but i couldn't figure out which part was which. If those are the legs they look skinny.

[bigfellascott]

I was thinking that had to be a roo but i couldn't figure out which part was which. If those are the legs they look skinny.

Yeah not much feed around for em at the moment so they are struggling a bit.

[on_one_wheel]

That's like a little babby.

That big wheel makes it look small ... this is a baby.

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[Title_II]

I was thinking that had to be a roo but i couldn't figure out which part was which. If those are the legs they look skinny.

Yeah not much feed around for em at the moment so they are struggling a bit.

I think his troubles are over

[bigfellascott]

I was thinking that had to be a roo but i couldn't figure out which part was which. If those are the legs they look skinny.

Yeah not much feed around for em at the moment so they are struggling a bit.

I think his troubles are over

Yeah for both of em!

[on_one_wheel]

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I think I'm developing some kind of addiction.

After seeing what one of the big smoke gun shops are asking for fine looking fox pelts I might just stop letting them rot ... $150 each !

[bigfellascott]

FMD $150 for a bloody fox skin, s**t I've left $1000's of dollars all over the countryside

[YoungBuck]

Spent 6 hours calling foxes all over a local forest yesterday, got nothing.
Decided to head back and stopped for a smoko on a big rock in the side of a big hill overlooking the valley below, decided to call again as I was stationary anyway and would be able to see anything coming up from miles away. 5 mins later I hear some sticks breaking to my rear right...sure as s**t a little bastard managed get up in my flank, only 5 meters away. He got spooked as I turned and bolted.
Lousy day hunting, but still beats a day at work.

[darwindingo]

$150 Used to make a fair amount out of them back when I could get $50.

[Heckler303]

Went out for a stroll with the Norinco JW-15, loaded up with some Eley 40grn subsonics, and bagged a nice wallaby buck about 30m away from me, hit it just above the neck, instant kill, flopped right over and now gonna bake a pie out of it

[petemacsydney]

3 days of constant rain, heavy winds, mud and very cold weather and all i got was this little fella.
well, at least it wont be eating native birds anymore!

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[southwest shooter]

One less cat , nice work.

[Title_II]

I got a fox out in front of my house that one of my neighbors hit with a 1930mm Chevy Silverado. Took 'em right out.