I don't want to start any flames, but BC pellets, the standard ones in .22 caliber, since pellets in 7.62mm or 9mm no longer fulfill any of what we said in the form of the advantage of pellets vs slug, so these standard pellets ones have a BC of around 0.04. I have long-term tested JSB 18.1grain and measured at 0.041, measured by LabRader, tested from 30 to 205m and shot sat at all distances, verified by tens of thousands of shots.
These pellets, although they can sometimes shoot beautiful results, cannot consistently achieve 1 MOA or 1.5 MOA accuracy at 150 yards. Again, it is physically impossible unless you are an accomplished wind wizard who can detect wind direction and speed better than 1 km/h.
This is physics, not bedtime stories.
Each of you can enter a wind from 3-9h and 1km/h in a ballistic calculator and you will see how much will it show you the deviation.
This is the physical reality with which it is necessary to learn to live and count with it, otherwise you will continue to live in illusions of the impossible and you will try to achieve something that cannot be achieved.
(for exception seekers: you get the same result even if you put BC G1 0.61 )
And to try to drag it back to the original topic again, pellets are not hitting a wall at 100yards, beyond which they're no longer a viable option. There ARE pellets possible of hitting the killing half of a prairie dog out to 200yards with surprising success rates. (Again, a kill zone of about 5-6 inches long by about 2 inches wide).
and can you state what these PELLETS are? Aren't they more like slugs-bullets? because I don't know any pellets that are capable of this, unless we are talking, as above, about calibers above .25 caliber.
As for the rest. So carrying an air bottle is just like carrying cartridges along with bullets. The bullet will not fly out of the barrel by itself either.
It again it's a point of view. I take it from the point of view of maximum accuracy, not hunting pests, and for my type of shooting, people normally carry 10-20 kg heavy front rests to the shooting range, for example from SEB for a few thousand USD. For this type of shooting, some extra 5-7kg bottle is practically negligible equipment.
I don't want to take away your perspective. If I were to hunt prairie dogs from the car in an occasional encounter, then the .22LR would probably be a better choice, but that does not mean that for other types of shooting, the .22LR is still a better choice than a beige airgun.