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Daisyman · Post by **Daisyman** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:02 pm

I also had a squib load with those, at the second or third shot. I caught it, but it taught me a lesson to not ask for trouble, so I threw the whole box away. I was going to do some in town squirrel removal.......so I just went back to live trapping them again, up to 16 this year. Two years ago I got 49. My yard looked like a mine field.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:49 pm

Old Ironsights wrote:A .358 158gr pure dead soft lead HP bullet over 3gr of BP/Titegroup with Cream of Wheat filler will make less noise than a Super Colibri... and hit with over 100fpe. Don't use a solid or you will simply icepick the critter and you will have to recover his pathetic crawling carcass...

Not to highjack my own post...

... but two quick questions:

(1) Will the 3 grain load reliably push a regular hard-cast 158-grain .358"? For indoor target practice versus pest extermination.

(2) When you load that with the Cream of Wheat filler, so you put a card or wad between the powder and filler (or anything else), or just load the filler right on top of the reduced powder charge?

I'm surprised the primer detonation isn't louder between the two...

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:06 pm

When loading COW over BP I compress it, so no card is needed because the compression inhibits mixing.

If shooting indoors, I would advise against COW loads... unless you really, really like cleaning burnt COW out of the walls, carpet, ducts, slippers, cat fur, dog fur...

Haven't tried it with ACWW cast, only Soft Cast. If I was using WW I might undersize slightly (From .358 to actual groove dia), but that might not be necessary.

As for the primer detonation noise, the length of the barrel takes care of that regardless of subsonic load.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:14 pm

Interesting stuff! Glad you are OK after all, YK.

MacEntyre · Post by **MacEntyre** » Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:23 am

Old Ironsights wrote: As for the primer detonation noise, the length of the barrel takes care of that regardless of subsonic load.

Right! When the gas has fully expanded before leaving the barrel, there is no noise.

So, if you shoot the same load from a shorter barrel, it may make more noise.

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