Safari Dave
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I've taken many American "big game" animals with both while doing work for a game agency.
A 22 LR has been fine for racoons out to 50 yards. A 22 LR is also OK for while-tail deer (illegal for sports hunting) and hogs with well-placed, short range brain shots (10 yards or less). (I like CCI Velocitors, to get good penetration).
CCI Stingers are devastating on small game, but their light weight hollow-point bullet will not penetrate very far, and I won't use them on animals over 10 pounds. The cases are longer than normal for a .22 Long Rifle and won't chamber on a few rifles.
A .22 Magnum (WMR) is a much more powerful round (2.5-3 times the muzzle energy of a .22LR).
I like 40g+ copper-cased solids to get maximum penetration to euthanize injured animals in populated areas where noise is not too much of a problem and I have a good backstop. Some of my coworkers prefer heavy (40g+) copper-cased expanding bullets.
For coyotes and racoons - I think a .22 Magnum is plenty for both out to 100 yards. If I cared to recover the bodies, I'd use CCI Gamepoints - 40g. JSP - 1,875 FPS
(I thought CCI used to make 45g JSP Gamepoints with a muzzle velocity of 2,100 fps, but I guess I was either wrong, or they don't make them any longer).
If they did, that would be what to use for every larger animal.
A 22 LR has been fine for racoons out to 50 yards. A 22 LR is also OK for while-tail deer (illegal for sports hunting) and hogs with well-placed, short range brain shots (10 yards or less). (I like CCI Velocitors, to get good penetration).
CCI Stingers are devastating on small game, but their light weight hollow-point bullet will not penetrate very far, and I won't use them on animals over 10 pounds. The cases are longer than normal for a .22 Long Rifle and won't chamber on a few rifles.
A .22 Magnum (WMR) is a much more powerful round (2.5-3 times the muzzle energy of a .22LR).
I like 40g+ copper-cased solids to get maximum penetration to euthanize injured animals in populated areas where noise is not too much of a problem and I have a good backstop. Some of my coworkers prefer heavy (40g+) copper-cased expanding bullets.
For coyotes and racoons - I think a .22 Magnum is plenty for both out to 100 yards. If I cared to recover the bodies, I'd use CCI Gamepoints - 40g. JSP - 1,875 FPS
(I thought CCI used to make 45g JSP Gamepoints with a muzzle velocity of 2,100 fps, but I guess I was either wrong, or they don't make them any longer).
If they did, that would be what to use for every larger animal.