Cartridges

[chris&dan]

I shoot on a small farm  for pigeon &  

rabbit. The farm has a lot of livestock, horses.ect

is their such a thing as a quiet 12g cartridge?

[ernyha]

Sub-sonic are supposed to be quieter than ordinary ones but don,t sound much differant to me.They all go BANG! 8-)

[Cranfield]

Hi chris&dan, welcome, I moved you from the For Sale Forum, as I think you will get a better response to your question here.  :(  

 

I have recently been experimenting with lighter load cartridges (down to 26gm), with no apparent effect on the gunshot sound.

Some of my shooting is near houses and I was trying to reduce the chance of causing annoyance to the residents.

 

There is a single barrelled, silenced 12 bore shotgun available and this was mentioned on a recent topic on the Forum.

I have no experience of this gun.

 

I shoot near horses and cattle, which is why I use fibre wad cartridges (as opposed to plastic).

I find that if you are not shooting directly over the animals, they just move off to a part of the field they are comfortable in and ignore you.

 

Hopefully, someone else may have some better information.

[NGhost]

I have a 12g hushpower. with subsonics it is about as noisey as a spring airgun. I am also thinking about getting a second moderated barrel for my SA from the hushpower people.

The hushpower can be cheap second hand I paid 150 for mine, but it is a bit basic and only a single shot (ful choke). :(