Fascination with slugs? Well, it CAN make our hobby even more fun.... Just sayin'....
(1) I live smack between the ocean and the mountains — two places
where the winds love to howl like a pack of wolfes at fullmoon. So, I really like the high BC of slugs. Wind drift can be cut in half (depending on the slugs and pellets that we compare, of course).
(2) If I have
angled shots without a backstop (trees, etc.) I need about a mile of deserted land behind it if I want to shoot slugs — no matter where they return to earth, their high BC will give them enough impact energy to possibly do some damage. So, a pellet is the pill of choice for quarry high up.
But for quarry on the ground slugs deliver more energy on impact, which can contribute to a better kill.
However, the cows in some of my permissions wouldn't be fond of a ricochet hitting their hide. I already have had a pellet do that trick.
I immediately called the famer and offered to pay for any and all treatment — he declined. Nice guy.
(3)
I feel a strange fascination with long range shooting: Meaning... — the act of crunching and dialing a bunch of numbers (MV, BC, weight, range, angle, wind, pressure), pulling the trigger, and actually HITTING something seems like magic to me.
But, the farther the shot the higher the BC needs to be, not just to reduce extreme wind drifts, but also to actually get the projectile to its destination... — typical pellets loose their velocity very quickly beyond 100y, and dialing 100moa goes beyond the scopes I can afford, even with adjustable rings at max.
(4) I have no experience with point (4), as my guns at this point are rather meek and mild.
However, one hears and watches things:
▪ Some slug models expand much better than some others. Such expansion would contribute to a better kill.
▪ Then we add the higher impact velocity due to their higher BC into the mix, which also aids in hollow point expansion.
▪ And it adds more power on impact.
Another factor for the mix are the
super heavy slugs (no pellets come in those weights). They permit a greatly increased muzzle energy, while still staying subsonic. But the quarry would get a hole lot more energy delivered to their soon-to-be-dead body.
Possible results of this mix: ➔ At some point, I would expect that using this mix would produce
kills that are rather spectacular, with red mist, puffs of feather clouds, quarry getting knocked backwards, and general disintegration.
All that to say: I see my fascination not so much as rejecting pellets from now on.... It's more of a
both—and. Or,
the best tool for the job. Or, as Vetmx said it in his unique way — I just need
the challenge (and a way to burn my money the fun way).
These are great times to be an airgunner!
Matthias
as they have a similar profile to the RDMs , we will see how that goes.
