Hunting with maximum/expanding pellets /slugs

Devink

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Pesty red squirrel shot with crow magnum pellet 10 yards away. Going about 900fps out of a .25 huben gk1. Quite explosive. I ussually prefer projectiles that expand and dump energy, unless I'm going for penetration. Surprising difference in soft tissue damage.

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I will check later - i am curious as well. I am guessing around 35-40 fpe /in the 800's? as far as fps, based on the report and my memory of the adjustments I made since I last clocked it. The crowmags are pretty light for .25 but I don't recall the weight.

it's not really conserving air - one mag plus a dry fire takes it from 350 down to 200 bar.

The Crow-mags though really do create a small explosion when they pancake inside the prey. When scrubbing through the slomo footage you can visualize the spot in the zuch where it dumped the energy because everything is rushing away from that point in all directions.
 
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