Which Caliber for 100-125yd Ground Squirrel Kills? .22 or .25?

BradAir said:

I stated in the post picture, I need the elevated position of my living room window to see them in the grass and the angle gets more body exposed. I also stated I need to keep this low profile operation. It's basically ground squirrel sniper black ops over here! lol

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Cantona256 said:

This gun is my first PCP too bro. Keeping it to pellets is fine. Especially since your gun isn’t a slug shooter at stock settings… but if you stay with pellets it’s gonna be a struggle. The only guys I see shooting 100y+ with pellets are doing so with $2,000 Fx guns or Brocock or something like that. The level of difficulty is much higher with pellets because of their ballistic profile… out to 50-60yard pellets will outperform most slugs. Or at least that’s what I keep reading/hearing. But 100y+ with pellets is not easy. If you’re just starting off with airguns you might be setting a very challenging goal. Not saying you can’t do it. Just that’s it’s gonna be hard. With a pellet at 100y you can expect between 18-24” of drop, minimum.

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Ultralight said:

Curious. Why would pellets outperform slugs out to 50-60 yards? Won't it simply outperform at all distances?

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Cantona256 said:

The way that pellets are stabilized in flight is extremely stable at short distances… slugs need spin to be stabilized but that also means they are subject to spin drift…. But over distance their shape makes them much less susceptible to wind overall… or at least that’s my take on it from what I’ve read and without getting too crazy on the physics…
Also lots of guys shoot pellets out to 100y for bench rest and stuff. I think it helps if you’re shooting .30cal and above as those pellets have good weight to them… but the main reason I got my gun was to have an out of the box slug shooter. It’s very windy here and I rarely get within 50y of anything I shoot because the terrain is quite open. Went from struggling to hit consistently at 50y with a .22 shooting pellets, to regularly hitting at 75+ with .25cal slugs. Not a completely fair comparison but thats kinda my point haha. Tuning for slugs is harder but shooting them is easier imo.

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Ultralight said:

Thank you. Learned something. Appreciate it.

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