I will only address question 2.Crash wrote:A friend has an old (breakdown model--beautiful condition) Browning .22 semi-auto. He wants to shoot pest birds with it in our residential neighborhood using subsonic ammo. He believes that it will be quieter than a pellet rifle. My concerns:
1. It's illegal to discharge a firearm in our neighborhood
2 I don't believe that it will be all that quiet without a suppressor--which he does not have.
Comments?
Crash
I use my Browning semi-auto .22 rifle regularly to dispatch nuisance skunks, possums, etc with CCI CB caps. Only works as a single-shot, normally doesn't fully eject the fired casing.
Quieter than ANY pellet gun I've ever seen or used, whether gas or spring.
Got to realize the sights will be off if the rifle is sighted in for regular .22 and compensate or resight.
Very quiet. Much quieter than the same CB caps fired from a .22 pistol. Of course this also depends on the layout of the houses in the area (echo effect).