I use Yellow Jackets in my Marlin 144LS for ground hogs around my place. Yes they are dirty and no they are not the most accurate but they work. Hogs have a larger kill zone than a gopher and they are tough. I too hate it when they don't fall over dead. When they make it down the hole you just can't trust that he will be expired. Instead of chasing for the elusive "wonder ammo" I just work on getting better at stalking and get real close. It makes the shot much more satisfying.
Yellow Jackets and gophers, I'm impressed!
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Yellow Jackets are now my favorite .22 ammo too. My first choice to use for zeroing my hunting rifle was the Stingers but I can't shoot better groups with them so I went for the cheaper ammo. Also, Yellow Jackets were the one who gave me the least FTF under very cold temperature(-20C) and I still to these day don't know if my sporter type Anschutz have a match chamber or not... Anyway, so I bought a brick and when the woodchucks came out this spring I found out me too that these rounds were indeed very lethal.
Grouping-size?
I just cleaned my rifle after 150 round of the Yellow Jackets and boy was it dirty!!There was gold glitter all over the bore.
I shoot bricks of YJ's with no fuss in my 10/22. And since I have no problem achieving minute of gopher with them, I clean my gun when gopher season is over.I've tried pretty much everything out there as far as ammo goes, I seem to gravitate back to YJs every time.
It was all fairly close in (25 yards) off hand speed drills in preparation for action shooting, so the group size per se would probably be meaningless. Also, the targets are long gone, so all you will really get is my best recollection with the usual exaggerations thrown in.
If its of interest to you I'll take it out next week and try it at 50 and 100 and post a pic of the target.
YEARS ago when Alan Rock's gun registry was about to be passed, I was shooting gophers on my cousins ranch with him. I was using Yellow Jackets and he loved the way they tore them up. He told me to git him some in Calgary because locally they were very expensive.
I found out Wholesale sports had a special on Yellow Jackets, $ 1.79 a box. I phoned my cousin up and asked if he wanted to stock up. Yes he said, I want 10 cases at that price!.
So I went in and asked for 10 cases of Yellow Jackets. I thought they would think I was nuts, they didn't even bat an eye. Anyways my cousin comes into Calgary a couple of weeks later, and stops to get the ammo from me and settle up. We go into my garage and I show him his 10 cases of Yellow Jackets. He looks at me like I am nuts.
Apparently in his area of S.E. Alberta, a carton (brick) of ammo is refered to as a case!! So as I was single back then, making a decent living and didn't have a mortgage yet , I kept the other 9 cases (45,000 rds.) I am down to about 1 1/2 cases now, virtually all of the rest has been used on gophers over the years mostly thru my 9422 Winchester and my Sako P-78. My brothers Ruger 10-22 and Rem. Nylon 66 also helped.
By the way the 10 cases for one purchase was nowhere near a record for Wholesale sports.
I found out Wholesale sports had a special on Yellow Jackets, $ 1.79 a box. I phoned my cousin up and asked if he wanted to stock up. Yes he said, I want 10 cases at that price!.
So I went in and asked for 10 cases of Yellow Jackets. I thought they would think I was nuts, they didn't even bat an eye. Anyways my cousin comes into Calgary a couple of weeks later, and stops to get the ammo from me and settle up. We go into my garage and I show him his 10 cases of Yellow Jackets. He looks at me like I am nuts.
Apparently in his area of S.E. Alberta, a carton (brick) of ammo is refered to as a case!! So as I was single back then, making a decent living and didn't have a mortgage yet , I kept the other 9 cases (45,000 rds.) I am down to about 1 1/2 cases now, virtually all of the rest has been used on gophers over the years mostly thru my 9422 Winchester and my Sako P-78. My brothers Ruger 10-22 and Rem. Nylon 66 also helped.
By the way the 10 cases for one purchase was nowhere near a record for Wholesale sports.
was out last week & still like YJ. I am shooting off all the viper shells that I have left. I like the hollow point better. My 10-22 does not feed them too well in the large mags. the 10 rds are ok. the Rem & bruno bolts do well with them.
I use the YJ in m 10/22. they seem to get the job done - not the most accurate (3-5 MOA 100yds) but devastating on gophers. I continue to use the YJ despite accuracy letdowns and being really dirty because they seem to work the best* across the board with all my 22 firearms.
* rather than keep several different brands/styles and weights.
* rather than keep several different brands/styles and weights.
Depends on your chamber...definitely fun to cycle with!
