Interestingly enough... I've read that a few times over the last couple years and have not remembered or noted that "distance multiplier".
hmmmmm....(thinking this through here) That is an interesting quandry isn't it. It isn't really that much further at all. But now that I think bout it, I have noticed that the trajectory on each of my airguns definately drop more rapidly right about at 45yds.
I have a couple at 12fpe, 14.25fpe and one at 17fpe. But I shoot lighter pellets with the 12fpe guns and the 17fpe is shooting heavies. That probably evens them out some but the 12fpe definately have the shorter flat range. My R-9 at 14.25fpe with its preferred pellet shoots the flattest of my airguns and when I'm shooting at our 45 yard buzzard I can see my pellet just starting to drop as it travels into that targets KZ. And.... on that same lane I have a much easier time with the other target that is usually placed at 40-44 yards to.
I'm certainly no chairgun whiz, and I'm sure that different fpe and pellet combos will give varied results, but based on my humble experience I would guess that is what that multiplier is all about. I wouldn't want to have to figure it out for each airgun especially since the method was designed to rate a course but I don't think its to far off the mark either as far as an average goes.
Dag-nabit Ray!... now you have me curious. I'm going to have to shoot those yardages and see what happens. Guess that isn't the worst thing ever.
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