Polymags or Rockets for Hunting ?

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wll

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I hear a lot of great things about the Polymags, but was wondering who of you uses the Rockets in .22 cal and how do they compare to the Polymags for hunting ?

I have heard that the Rockets penetrate very well, as well as open up and that the Polymags hit very hard, mushroom very well and are accurate as heck.

Would be very interested in hearing what you say. I would think the Rockets would be great for feathers as the steel ball is suppose to penetrate very deep ?

Would really like to know and what gun you are using ?

wll
 
Penetration has almost never been an issue with small game and .22 pellets shot from a PCP. 90 % of all dome pellets will pass right thru even past 75 yards. The problem has been dropping or transferring all the pellets energy into the target. Most of us use dome pellets because the seem to fly the best out of most guns. BWalton shoots polymags out to 50 yards, don't know if they still pass thru but i know he says they hit hard. I shoot polymags from time to time but not past 35 yards, but I will swear by dome pellets for accuracy. Dead is dead, weather you blow the entire back half of the head off a ground squirrel or get a clean pass thru of the brain cavity. dead is dead. Happy shooting and shoot what your gun likes to eat the best. 
 
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"Gshadow177"I use them in my .177 cal and they do very well against anything. They penetrate very deep and often edit through the other side. I have found the pellets before and they almost completely pancake out. Great for the Euros (Eurasian Dove). I'm just using an old gamo.
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Yes, I have heard they zip through most everything and mushroom well too. The reason for asking is I really wonder how they perform in a .22 QB78 non modified. as the speed is not magnum standards by any means, but wondering if that pellet would make up for lack of fpe with the ability to penetrate.

I almost exclusively shoot domes, CP's, JSB's or maybe I'll try H&N Barracuda Extremes in my Hatsan EDGE, 95, 125 or 44 QE PCP. I'm sure the Rockets in one of my magnum guns will penetrate very, very well, but with a CO2 gun at pest birds or maybe short range ground squirrels how will they do ?

wll
 
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"spysir" I've used pollymags in .177 that were given to me, they grouped well out to 50, pricey though and not quite as good grouping compared to JSB heavies. As a brain shot is a brain shot I use the less costly JSB in all cal. .

John
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John, very true, but a light springer or CO2 gun is not going to push those 18.1gr domes out very quick, my 95 gets them out in the high 650ish ... what do you think a gun that shoots 14.3gr pellets at 550 fps will do with shooting 18-1 gr pellets ... a turtle can out run that pellet. So the question still stands, has anyone used the Rocket for hunting and how did it perform and what gun did you use it in (primarily interested in medium velocity guns using 14.3gr pellets as a base for speed ?

Will that pellet turn your 550fps gun into a viable tool for ground squirrels at 25-30 yds ? will the metal ball penetrate feathers for pigeons or starlings ?

That is what I want to know ?

Thanks guys.

wll
 
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I think they might even work better out of your QB87 because it isn't firing them as fast. My theory is that they will have more time to expand if they are a little slower. This would create a bigger wound cavity. When I shot some gamo fires (a polymag knock-off) into a piece of 2x4 out of both my gamo and a cheap daisy 760, when shot out of the daisy, the fires didn't penetrate as far, but the expansion was a little bit bigger then my gamo. I would assume this would be the same for the rockets.
 
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30calPersonally I get the best expansion when I shoot at steel plates. LOL! (See my avatar) But penetration sucks at any speed.

If slower was better then throwing them should give the best expansion right? More speed equals more energy, more energy equals more expansion. Just physics.
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Agreed all I am saying is that if it is moving slower through the animal, it will have more time to expand. You still need a decent FPE to actually penetrate the animal in the first place. Then the projectile can expand. For example, there is a guy on YouTube who does some videos on custom shotgun "slugs". In one video, he shot a clump of play doh straight through a sheet of plywood. Now if I were to take that same amount of play doh and throw it at a sheet of plywood, it wouldn't penetrate at all, but if I threw it hard enough, it would pancake out. Now if we take the happy medium between the two, it would penetrate the wood a bit. Not quite as extreme as the shotgun slug, but it would penetrate. It would also expand out quite a bit, again not as extreme as if I threw it. There still needs to be a medium between the two.
 
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Except that moving slower equals less or no expansion. Slower usually means it will pass through a small soft animal rather than expand. Either way it is dead. Bottom line is that expansion is not something most pellet shooters worry about. Pellets just don't move fast enough for much expansion to occur in small critters even with hollow points. Its different shooting a small soft bird than shooting a something hard. A hard object will stop the pellet instantly dumping all of its energe at once. Just like the steel plate. A soft target does not offer the same resistance and the pellet slows down gradually, not dumping all its energy instantly, thus no or little expansion. Like shooting a balloon for example.
 
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