Hello all,
I thought it would be interesting to recover one of these 25 Cal Predator Polymags and see the pellet afterwards. This one was fired at about 785 fps/36 fpe from my new Edgun R5M Hornet. Range was about 12yd on a squirrel, passing through the side of the skull, angling down through the neck, and finally lodging, as they often do, just under the hide above the shoulder. One quick cut through the hide and the pellet pops out for inspection.
At this velocity, the expansion isn't terribly great but still useful, and the polymer nosepiece did not smash down into the pellet very far. You can see that the periphery of the nose did fold down and over the skirt. Since it was not a complete pass through, it dumped all of its energy.
I have the velocity dialed back on purpose to increase shot count and because it's all I seem to need at my typical bushy bash ranges. I feel using a Hill Mk IV hand pump up to 250 bar, which can be quite a work out so the extra shot count lets me shoot longer with less exertion.
I may eventually switch to the JSB heavies, which seem to be more accurate and have an awesome ballistic coefficient. I'm still doing accuracy evaluation at lower speeds, trying to find The Sweet spot somewhere between 650 and 700 feet per second. At these slow speeds, this heavy pellet is what I like to call a 'clobberbomb'. Probably won't expand much, but won't really need to.
I thought it would be interesting to recover one of these 25 Cal Predator Polymags and see the pellet afterwards. This one was fired at about 785 fps/36 fpe from my new Edgun R5M Hornet. Range was about 12yd on a squirrel, passing through the side of the skull, angling down through the neck, and finally lodging, as they often do, just under the hide above the shoulder. One quick cut through the hide and the pellet pops out for inspection.
At this velocity, the expansion isn't terribly great but still useful, and the polymer nosepiece did not smash down into the pellet very far. You can see that the periphery of the nose did fold down and over the skirt. Since it was not a complete pass through, it dumped all of its energy.
I have the velocity dialed back on purpose to increase shot count and because it's all I seem to need at my typical bushy bash ranges. I feel using a Hill Mk IV hand pump up to 250 bar, which can be quite a work out so the extra shot count lets me shoot longer with less exertion.
I may eventually switch to the JSB heavies, which seem to be more accurate and have an awesome ballistic coefficient. I'm still doing accuracy evaluation at lower speeds, trying to find The Sweet spot somewhere between 650 and 700 feet per second. At these slow speeds, this heavy pellet is what I like to call a 'clobberbomb'. Probably won't expand much, but won't really need to.
