TargetTalk

I often "plink" in my backyard with my son shooting CCI CB Caps (Shorts) in my old lever-action .22. These rounds are about as loud as a magnum air rifle, no CRACK! like you get with super-sonic High Velocity .22 LR rounds. This is nice since my dogs don't cower under the porch and my neighbors horses don't get jumpy.

I am thinking about getting a smallbore rifle so I can do some practice target shooting at home. Is there a sub-sonic .22 LR that is match quality for smallbore practice? There are .22 Shorts for pistol shooting but would this give good accuracy in a rifle with the longer bullet jump to engage the rifling? Thanks.

Most match ammo is subsonic. The low end SK and Wolf is very good stuff for the price and pretty quiet. I have tried cb caps (cci long ones) in my match rifle in the basement but they are horribly inaccurate even at 10m.

Thanks for the reply. I wan't sure if that was the case by reading the specs on some of the loads. A lot of them were listed between 1050 and 1080 fps. This is cutting it pretty close (Mach 1 is 1087 fps @ 32 F and 1130 fps @ 70 F).