Numbers and science aside, is there a good "guage" of pellet power that indicates you are throwing enough lead hard enough to cleanly dispatch small game.
Something such as penetrating both sides of a Campbell's soup can, 150 pages into a Bass Pro catalog, busting a Mason jar, ect. ?
I've heard some say that 5ft.lbs of energy is plenty (if ya hit them in the right spot), and that 12 ft.lbs muzzle velocity is the low end goal, but I am looking for a method a little more rudimentary than calculous to test killing power down range.
Something such as penetrating both sides of a Campbell's soup can, 150 pages into a Bass Pro catalog, busting a Mason jar, ect. ?
I've heard some say that 5ft.lbs of energy is plenty (if ya hit them in the right spot), and that 12 ft.lbs muzzle velocity is the low end goal, but I am looking for a method a little more rudimentary than calculous to test killing power down range.