What Pellet for Hunting?

[Gaoler 83]

Hello All,

 

I am currently using the H&N FTT .22 in my rifle (Weirhauch HW100S), lovely and accurate but at close range the pellet is passing through my quarry!

 

Is there a good pellet out there that crushes better on impact for hunting? It needs to be accurate at range though.

 

Any advice welcome

John...

[Alan Clark 7]

I use RWS Super H Point, not had a problem with them going straight through unless it is a pigeon then they sometimes do.

[RaiderBoy 19]

Hello All,

 

I am currently using the H&N FTT .22 in my rifle (Weirhauch HW100S), lovely and accurate but at close range the pellet is passing through my quarry!

 

Is there a good pellet out there that crushes better on impact for hunting? It needs to be accurate at range though.

 

Any advice welcome

John...

 

Try using a lighter pellet thats still accurate in your gun such as accupels

 

Richard

[The one 8,477]

Air arms diablo fields for me

[air gunner 0]

RWS super h points are doing the business for me.

[jay2k123 2]

aa field

[Gaoler 83]

As anybody used Defiant Pellets ?

[elpc69 0]

RWS Hollows or AA Field, I have tried near enough everything and now wouldn't touch anything else.....

[gurtwurz 792]

i'm using accupells in my hw100 mate, otherwise i'd be using air arms or ftt's,although some of the lads on here swear by fx.

 

cheers, wurz

[andyfr1968 772]

Why are you worried about over penetration?

 

If there's no issues as regards to safety, property damage then don't worry about it. If what you're useing hits where you need, stick to it.

 

Cheers.

[elpc69 0]

Because a pellet can go straight through, but doesn't necessarily kill instantly and there's nothing worse than listening to a rabbit in its burrow screaming a slow death...the more a pellet breaks up the more your guaranteed an instant kill, as the fragments just destroy everything around the entry point to the stop/exit point.

 

Imagine someone in a film shooting themselves in the head, small bullet sized entry wound, large exit wound, not exactly but similar affect.

[andyfr1968 772]

Because a pellet can go straight through, but doesn't necessarily kill instantly and there's nothing worse than listening to a rabbit in its burrow screaming a slow death...the more a pellet breaks up the more your guaranteed an instant kill, as the fragments just destroy everything around the entry point to the stop/exit point.

 

Imagine someone in a film shooting themselves in the head, small bullet sized entry wound, large exit wound, not exactly but similar affect.

 

No disrespect, mate but with the piss all amount of power we've got to play with we need the pellet to go in and through as far as it can.

 

Think of a pellet as a car ( please bear with me...), when it hits something, do we want it to crumple and absorbe most of it's own energy that's feck all to start with or is it better to have that energy kept as best as possible within the pellet.

 

Shooting with the power we do, expansion and all that's not an issue. Getting the shot to land in the right place is.

 

Compareing our piss poor 12ft-lbs to a hand gun or whatever in a film just doesn't work. Not really compareing like with like..... Even a low ish powered target .38 is running at over 200 ft-lbs...

 

Cheers.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Forget super H points chaps. They are poo.

Get on the superdome.

But, if you hit 'em right it doesn't matter what you hit them with.

 

I have shot more than my fair share with the old 'domes. They hold their tragectory well..

[Buster321c 1,010]

As anybody used Defiant Pellets ?

 

 

Yes , i do . They are supremely accurate providing you find the right one for your gun .Personally its the small size that suit me .I have found nothing that groups like these ,and despite some people saying they become unstable over 40 yds , i find them fine . I took this rabbit last night with them @ 56yds .

 

 

Buster.

[elpc69 0]

Because a pellet can go straight through, but doesn't necessarily kill instantly and there's nothing worse than listening to a rabbit in its burrow screaming a slow death...the more a pellet breaks up the more your guaranteed an instant kill, as the fragments just destroy everything around the entry point to the stop/exit point.

 

Imagine someone in a film shooting themselves in the head, small bullet sized entry wound, large exit wound, not exactly but similar affect.

 

No disrespect, mate but with the piss all amount of power we've got to play with we need the pellet to go in and through as far as it can.

 

Think of a pellet as a car ( please bear with me...), when it hits something, do we want it to crumple and absorbe most of it's own energy that's feck all to start with or is it better to have that energy kept as best as possible within the pellet.

 

Shooting with the power we do, expansion and all that's not an issue. Getting the shot to land in the right place is.

 

Compareing our piss poor 12ft-lbs to a hand gun or whatever in a film just doesn't work. Not really compareing like with like..... Even a low ish powered target .38 is running at over 200 ft-lbs...

 

Cheers.

 

That’s also a valid point, 12ft is not the best for penetration and fragmentation of the pellet and also the range has a big affect as well and renders fragmentation next to useless on distant shots!!

 

But as long as you get penetration then fragmentation will do more damage than penetration alone...

 

I wasn't trying to compare a handgun to a airgun, I was trying to set the scene, and explain the theory of penetration and fragmentation, (badly) but obviously on a lot smaller and less power scale...