TassieTiger wrote:There is a truly eye opening video on YouTube where ppl are testing the lethality of a .22 at distance. The line in the sand from memory was a 3/4inch of pine - if it could penetrate that then it is apparently regarded as lethal.
At 200m the holes - CCI high velocity ammo - was crisp cut.
At 300m - the holes were crisp cut.
Only at 400m was the bullet occasionally getting stuck.
This opened my eyes dramatically...I would have never believed a .22 LR would do that...
I then decided to push my cz .22 to 120m site range for a bit of fun. Drop was about 2.5-3 inches from the previous 50m site in
I’ve nailed rabbits stone dead at 150 with that cz. Can’t speak for foxes.
Oh, I should have added - I was using lapua magazine .22 sub sonics. It is almost laughable waiting for the bullet to reach the target but, it works and the bunnies don’t scare at all from what amounts to a loud hammer strike type noise. I’m not sure I’d try it on anything bigger, I don’t know that it would be a quick dispatch on a larger hare or fox.
You should have a lot more drop at 120m. With CCI Std Vel (40gn at 1080fps) I'm zeroed at 55m and dropping 205mm at 100m, 375mm at 120m, 725mm at 150m, 1580mm at 200m, 2785mm at 250m, 4415mm at 300m, 6500mm at 350m, and nine-meters drop at 400m. I haven't shot with accuracy to 400m as yet to confirm that, but it is in that ballpark.
Take it out even further, it's great fun waiting for the bullet to hit. You fire the shot, cycle the action, see the splash against steel, and then you hear the ring a second later. At around 300m it take a second for the bullet to hit the target, and another second for the sound to come back to you. Trying to judge the wind gets really difficult.
I haven't tried it on pine, but I did test against corrugated steel sheeting - the average farm shed. CCI Quiet at 710fps penetrates to about 180m. CCI Std Vel is getting down to the same velocity at around 450m, so I would expect penetration around that point. I'll drag a sheet up the paddock one day and confirm that.