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OTTOK (no login)
Posted Jun 14, 2009 9:27 PM
I found those same weird things with close shots, even more so with my 52 .177.My solution was very easy , I use crow magnum pellets up to 25 yds and wadcuters up to 40.No more problems.
For the 350 .177 it was a little different ,it almost makes no difference between CPH and crow magnum ,squirrels go nowhere, the only diference is CPH almost always go thru at any distance.
With my 30 fpe .22, the only diet is CP. At close range they make a mess.I keep a collection of pellets recovered from game for the last 10 years ,and at 30fpe at the muzzle,CP deform quite a lot on squirrels at ranges up to 15 yds.After that, they tend to pass thru up to 35-40 yds ,when the remaining energy ,I gess ,is not enough to punch thru.
It was a little contradicting , but it is a combination of gun+pellet+prey+shot placement, very hard to reproduce enough times to draw a definitive conclussion.
One more reason to own yet another gun.We all know there is not such a thing as to many airguns.Just make sure that the "new one" is not to different from the "old one", that way she won't notice, just wood and black steel. |
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