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Holy cow! Just paid $9.58 for 20 by CCI at Wal-Mart, not inclding sales tax. Getting the pigeons (rock doves) out of my barn is getting expensive. Any boxes of 50 still available?

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Yeah, over 50 cents per shot for .22 birdshot is crazy, especially since it isn't very effective except at short range. Keep that stuff in a revolver for snakes at spitting distances. A better pigeon solution would be to buy a good accurate pellet rifle, and snipe them when they settle in to roost in the evening.

I have a scoped spring piston RWS model 45 .177 cal. that makes 1000fps and is very accurate. And I also have my old Benjamin model 347 .177 cal. pump type pellet gun that is still very accurate after firing untold thousands of shots. The power of the Benjamin is variable depending on the number of pumps, up to around 750 fps. Either one will easily kill pigeons with less noise than a .22, and minimal cost.

Wish I could see well enough to shoot. I let friends shoot the pigeons, sometimes outside the barn with shotguns, other times with .22 shot inside. I worry about pellets, BB and CB caps harming my skylights. The barn is quite dark, so the little shotgun has an advantage there.

One pigeon trap, a can of birdseed, and thou.
6$ ea, 4 for $20. NAVHDA begs for birds.

Hal. Is your 22 a smoothbore?

These look to be useful in restricted range and low damage situations. They expand surprisingly well.

I use round nose solid CB Longs (and CCI HV Longs) in my small frame .22 Colt Lightning.

The Remington.22 C Bees shown in this video will almost certainly be too long to feed in the Lightning’s cartridge elevator.

However in a mixed lot that I recently bought of various .22 Longs I found 2 card 50 round boxes of Remington.22 C. Bee Longs with solid 30 grain round nose bullets. Do Remington offer both types or were the solids an earlier version?

There was also a box of Eley Z Longs of fairly recent manufacture and one of Australian made Winchester Z Longs.

Yes my Marlin single shot bolt action is marked 'choke bore'. Buddy shot two more with it yesterday, so only one bird remains. But they continually move in and crap on everything. So good idea about the trap and I will look into buying or making one. My versatile Griffon loves pigoens whole after carefully plucking off the primary wing feathers.

Why not close off however they are getting in? That would be a permanent solution.

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