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Thanks George
Just started messing around with it


" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

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Only fools hope to live forever
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You're welcome.

I don't bother with subsonics in the .308; I use the can to reduce the report of the supersonic rounds.

George


 
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Supersonic, dead of night.


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That coyote reminds me of the coy-dogs we saw in parts on New York and Pennsylvania.

Nice going, Randall!

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One other thing to remember about subsonics is that the vast majority of bullets that expand at normal supersonic impact velocities of say 1500fps + DO NOT EXPAND at subsonic velocities. They may deform some if the hit bone, but you do not get the hydrostatic shock and energy transfer the same way supersonic projectiles impact.

Many pistol bullets expand at those velocities, and the LeHigh bullets work quite well. I've run them through an AR platform and a TC Encore with great success. I just treat it like long range bow hunting. I have not shot any game with the LeHigh past about 89yrds.

I think the thing I like most about hunting with a suppressor reguardless of bullet speed is hearing the sound of the impact when the bullet strikes meat.
 
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You're welcome.

I don't bother with subsonics in the .308; I use the can to reduce the report of the supersonic rounds.

George


Yes, sub-sonics are much ado about nothing for game. The buck I harvested last year was standing in a mixed sex group when I shot him with the Weatherby (again 200 grain bullets full house). He bolted into the mesquites about 10 yds and fell dead. A couple of the other deer lifted their heads to see the commotion and went back to feeding. A couple never reacted at all. I suppose with time they might become sensitized to suppressed fire but for now they are oblivious.


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