Just throwing in some technical perspective....
I once ran some controlled tests on rat bodies I had shot, and later on here using a dog toy (fury rat) with a carrot of all things stuffed inside for realism. Another keen pistol hunter on here ran similar tests.
Conclusions of the tests at the typical 8-10 paces, proved surprising.
Cutting a long story short you require something in the territory of 500-525fps with a typical 8 grain pellet, which pretty much rules out the Co2 replica posers, and the SSP bunch such as Daisy 747 etc...all running at about 360 fps to 400fps territory with 8 grain pellets.
This is due to the pellet losing approx 50fps of its velocity across the distance to the target, and therefore arriving POA at approx 300-350fps ....not enough. Most shots at this velocity (POA) did not even fully penetrate the skin, perhaps some severe bruising, maybe some rare shock kills if hit in the head, being the best you can hope for, but not reliable, or particularly humane.
However, at 525 fps (in the case of the gun I was using) some 480 fps still remained at the POA.
I know this because I had set up my Chrony at 10 paces....This time, the test targets were penetrated well through the skin and on down in, burying deep into internal organs. On one occasion, a neck shot resulting in clean pass through and out the other side.
Ok the tests were a bit crude, but I think I ended up with a reasonable bench mark, with my Dog toy rat giving very similar results to the actual rats I tested on.
You could try a similar set up for your own testing, and maybe replace the carrot with ballistic putty ...it was all I had at the time..
I once ran some controlled tests on rat bodies I had shot, and later on here using a dog toy (fury rat) with a carrot of all things stuffed inside for realism. Another keen pistol hunter on here ran similar tests.
Conclusions of the tests at the typical 8-10 paces, proved surprising.
Cutting a long story short you require something in the territory of 500-525fps with a typical 8 grain pellet, which pretty much rules out the Co2 replica posers, and the SSP bunch such as Daisy 747 etc...all running at about 360 fps to 400fps territory with 8 grain pellets.
This is due to the pellet losing approx 50fps of its velocity across the distance to the target, and therefore arriving POA at approx 300-350fps ....not enough. Most shots at this velocity (POA) did not even fully penetrate the skin, perhaps some severe bruising, maybe some rare shock kills if hit in the head, being the best you can hope for, but not reliable, or particularly humane.
However, at 525 fps (in the case of the gun I was using) some 480 fps still remained at the POA.
I know this because I had set up my Chrony at 10 paces....This time, the test targets were penetrated well through the skin and on down in, burying deep into internal organs. On one occasion, a neck shot resulting in clean pass through and out the other side.
Ok the tests were a bit crude, but I think I ended up with a reasonable bench mark, with my Dog toy rat giving very similar results to the actual rats I tested on.
You could try a similar set up for your own testing, and maybe replace the carrot with ballistic putty ...it was all I had at the time..
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