I was recently quoted in an oldd conversation about slugs and thought it better to start a new topic rather than continue over there.
The newest flavor of slugs, the kind that look like rimfire bullets, ala Altaros and the type Mike Nische has been recently sharing results from, are not the same thing as the 1st gen slugs we've been fighting with for 8 or so years.
From a performance standpoint, there are now three classes of airgun projectiles.
-Pellets
-1st Gen slugs (flat base/ generally cone shaped)
-2nd Gen slugs (similar shape to .22 rimfire, round-nosed often with boat-tails and/or truncated bases)
Out to 100 yards, it is extremely rare to find a 1st gen slug that will outshoot a good high BC pellet.
The 2nd Gen slugs are essentially air powered rimfires, with comparable (and sometimes better) performance. Their BCs and retained energies are downright scary when compared to what we think of coming from an airgun (outside of traditional big bore airguns).
Lumping 1st Gen and 2nd gen slugs together as the same thing is akin to letting Lia Thomas swim with woman and then being surprised that he's kicking their asses. Ie they're simply not in the same class b/c they're so vastly different.
This is a sesame street game of which one of these is not like the others. And the air powered rimfires are simply a completely different animal than what we've been calling slugs for most of a decade now.
Those bad boys are BULLETS.
The newest flavor of slugs, the kind that look like rimfire bullets, ala Altaros and the type Mike Nische has been recently sharing results from, are not the same thing as the 1st gen slugs we've been fighting with for 8 or so years.
From a performance standpoint, there are now three classes of airgun projectiles.
-Pellets
-1st Gen slugs (flat base/ generally cone shaped)
-2nd Gen slugs (similar shape to .22 rimfire, round-nosed often with boat-tails and/or truncated bases)
Out to 100 yards, it is extremely rare to find a 1st gen slug that will outshoot a good high BC pellet.
The 2nd Gen slugs are essentially air powered rimfires, with comparable (and sometimes better) performance. Their BCs and retained energies are downright scary when compared to what we think of coming from an airgun (outside of traditional big bore airguns).
Lumping 1st Gen and 2nd gen slugs together as the same thing is akin to letting Lia Thomas swim with woman and then being surprised that he's kicking their asses. Ie they're simply not in the same class b/c they're so vastly different.
This is a sesame street game of which one of these is not like the others. And the air powered rimfires are simply a completely different animal than what we've been calling slugs for most of a decade now.
Those bad boys are BULLETS.