.............Subsonic speeds with poop BC.............
.............ton of wounded animals..........
.............I dont think it serves anyone that we encourage ppl to buy tools for a job that they really are not fit for.
Looks like we agree on the first two comments you made. The relatively poor bc and low speeds means the projectiles are safe(R) than shooting the big fpe stuff.
And, yes, being able to shoot safely in places where shooting would not normally be possible does equal a ton of dead and wounded animals, which is the point. (the farmers and ranchers also poison and trap them, a fate far worse then my JSB 18.1 in the noggin or lungs).
Disagree on the third. There are situations, long range or otherwise, where low power is the only option.
Growing up on a ranch and having generations of ranching on both sides of my family, livestock takes priority over any other animal. City folk have a hard time with this. Coyotes are a shoot on sight critter as well, when you've seen a pack of coyotes eating alive a calf that a mother cow is trying to deliver and then the pieces of that now dead calf have to be pulled out of the mother, it'll change your mindset about the value of the life of a critter. This is a general mindset as well as a financial feasibility situation. Most people don't realize when they drive past a field full of cattle, that every one out there is worth between $500-2000, depending on current market prices. (cattle market is listed and tracked very much like the stock market-5 year average price for a 750lb steer is 143.16/100lbs so a typical 2 year steer is worth roughly $1100). So, coming at this from both sides, the pdogs need removed because they're not only out there eating grass the cattle can eat or they're eating alfalfa that is going to be turned into hay for the livestock to eat, but they're also out there ruining the fields by creating holes that that $1100 steer could step in and break a leg and become a 0$ steer, and they're out there creating axles breaking mounds. If I can do the job of removing pdogs more safely in and around the cattle herds I'm going to take the safer option. (I won't even talk about the horse situation, my team roper father sold his last heel horse for $15,000 a few years ago when he decide he was too old for roping-and that's not an expensive horse).
So, after all that justification, it's just a ton of fun too.
We're a long ways from the original question here though.
The low power long range option allows us to shoot safely in certain places. So, as previously stated, consider your intended use (including specific areas) and don't over look low power options in your hunt for a long range accuracy rig.
