CB Longs

[ratherbefishin]

anybody use CB longs ?I find them very handy- they don't make any more noise than an air rifle and are plenty powerful for crows and squirrels up to about 30 yards.Just perfect for situations where you don't want to advertise you are shooting- they are quieter than sub sonics.

[Don Buckbee]

Don't know what CB Longs are? Curious who makes them and where you can get them?
Don

[ratherbefishin]

CCI makes them, and if you check out ''Cheaper than Dirt'' they have specials onthem.They are a regular weight 22 but subsonic, make about noise as snapping your fingers, but still very effective at short ranges.Try one out by shooting a telephone book and you'll  see.They are good for rodent and pest control and also target practise any place you don't want noise.I've used them for years

[Don Buckbee]

Thanls for the info. I must try some.
Take care,
Don

[quickdtoo]

CB? Does that mean Composite Bullet? When I was a kid, dad got me some CB 22 shorts that the bullets were not made of lead, but some sort of plaster like material, is this the same thing? They were great in that they wouldn't ricochet when hitting the ground or rocks in fields, they just turned to dust, but the killed rabbits just fine.

[ratherbefishin]

No they are a 29 grain lead bullet and quite effective up to about 30 yards on small game[ head shots]I've shot any number of crows with them and also coons that are after my chickens.If the chickens make a fuss in the night I go down there with a spotlight and they run up the cedar trees.Hold the light on them and shoot them between the eyes- rolled lots of them out of the tops of cedar trees.I don't want the neighbours phoning the cops at 3 am about ''shooting'' so the CB  longs are my choice.

[S.S.]

CB actually stands for "Conical Bullet".
The original "First Metallic Cartridge" was a Percussion
cap with a round ball pressed into it. This was called
a "Bulleted Breech cap" or "BB cap" for short.
"CB Cap" was just a conical bullet instead of a Ball.
Dynamit Nobel still produces cartridges very similar
in size and appearance to the original rounds.
They are about 2/3 the length of a 22 short and
shoot quite well out of most .22 firearms. As single
shot only of course.  They are about $13.00 for 100
rounds though! Not for plinking.

[ratherbefishin]

I just picked up another box of 100- paid $9.95 [canadian] I call them ''raccoon '' food- perfect for shooting coons out of the cedar trees at 3am when they are bothering my chickens- no noise and if you shoot them right between the eyes , down they  come.Sure, I'd rather use regulat 22's- but when you don't want to advertise what you are doing- the CB Longs are perfect.

[jrcanoe]

I shoot them in my basement. There cool !  The bullet hitting the steel trap is louder than the shot. They turn my 10/22 into a straight pull bolt action and work well with the magazine.  They turn my 77/22 varmit into as quite a killing machine as you can get without an expensive tax stamp. You can hear firing pin strikes. There is a Groundhog living under double secret probation between a neighbor and I that probably has his name on a CB but we both have love ones that think he's cute. and he hasn't become a problem other than he drives our dogs crazy and messes with our ego's as hunters.

[S.S.]

There is a small opossum that "finishes off"
my outside cat's evening meal just about every night!
My wife thinks that it is cute too! Thus it is still alive!
I plan on making it disappear pretty soon!
Maybe my wife will not notice!

[jerry4570]

I shoot air-guns in the house and my rws 48 is louder than the cb's through a 18 in. barrel. they are kind of loud through a pistol though. since they are the same length as long rifle they feed through my bolt actions with ease. something else thats fun is the centerfire cartridges made to shoot 22 pellets through a modified cartridge that takes a 209 shotgun primer, also very quiet and accurate. Jerry

[cowpoke]

I have been using them for about 4 years now as the primary cartridge for ferral cat and skunk shooting around the farm buildings to minimize the potential damage to buildings and ricochets.

They are effective within their useful range for that purpose.

Very quiet too.

Around here they cost about $5 per 100. and in my case 100 lasts a long long time.

I think I have about 500 or 600 of them around.  Won't need to pick up any for a while unless the place gets overrun.

[TennesseeNuc]

When I was younger I used RWS CB and BB caps for urban squirrel hunting.  The squirrel falling through the tree and hitting the ground made more noise than the rifle.