This is my second video in true slo-mo. I think I prefer the regular SHD videos with sound and lower frame rate. I like hearing the meat slap. Sometimes, we can even hear the pellet hit the ground behind the animal after pass-through.
I was just getting ready to leave for work this morning, and I gave a final glance out the back window, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a nice fat, full grown male gray squirrel. (you should see his nuggers!) He was a nervous one. Had he been shot at before? His snout looks suspiciously dark...
"Well, OK. I can be a few minutes late to work to drop the hammer on this guy. I'll just blame it on the Championship Cubs game.
"
So I went and took the trigger lock off of the Compatto. There was one last round in the magazine, so I slipped the other magazine into my pocket, just in case I miss and need a second shot. I opened the door, and most of the birds spooked. (all native now, by the way ) He was undecided, as squirrels so often are. (one could say it is their fatal flaw...) He decided to shift around to the back side of the tree, but to keep a wary eye on me.
I raised the Compatto slowly to my shoulder and braced the air tube on the sliding door frame. Held over 2.5 mil dots. Lined up where I thought the pellet would get through the center of the brain and sent it. The CPH found its mark, which was the nutter's left eye, went diagonally through the brain and out the back of the head.
One thing I like about these slo-mo videos is that we can see exactly what happened afterwards. The eye juice goes off to the right, and the trip through his worry melon changed the path of the pellet maybe 35°, but didn't slow it down a whole lot, which tells me that I don't need medium power (17 FPE) with domed pellets on squirrel head shots. Low (12.5 FPE) would be fine. I've got a tin of Baracuda Hunters inbound, which I think should be a good compromise between a good ballistic coefficient for medium range opportunities, and hopefully some decent expansion to dump a bit more of the energy in the smaller varmints I shoot. Hopefully, still enough penetration for the bigger varmints, up to 20 lb. raccoons.
After the shot, you can see the red blur of a cardinal getting out of Dodge. During peak feeding times, I often have 5+ cardinals, and 8+ of the little bluish-black finch-looking ones. Although they still spook, they're coming back faster and faster; I think they're learning that they're safe from me. I have one pic with about 5 cardinals feeding, not at all concerned about the sparrow corpse laying right there among them.
Please remember to support me by clicking 'Like' in YouTube if you like the videos.
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJVlJ18LTg
Pellet impact only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keAlJ1fqfYI
I've also added these to my full list of pesting videos:
http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=116449.msg1119010#msg1119010
I was just getting ready to leave for work this morning, and I gave a final glance out the back window, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a nice fat, full grown male gray squirrel. (you should see his nuggers!) He was a nervous one. Had he been shot at before? His snout looks suspiciously dark...
"Well, OK. I can be a few minutes late to work to drop the hammer on this guy. I'll just blame it on the Championship Cubs game.
"So I went and took the trigger lock off of the Compatto. There was one last round in the magazine, so I slipped the other magazine into my pocket, just in case I miss and need a second shot. I opened the door, and most of the birds spooked. (all native now, by the way
) He was undecided, as squirrels so often are. (one could say it is their fatal flaw...) He decided to shift around to the back side of the tree, but to keep a wary eye on me. I raised the Compatto slowly to my shoulder and braced the air tube on the sliding door frame. Held over 2.5 mil dots. Lined up where I thought the pellet would get through the center of the brain and sent it. The CPH found its mark, which was the nutter's left eye, went diagonally through the brain and out the back of the head.
One thing I like about these slo-mo videos is that we can see exactly what happened afterwards. The eye juice goes off to the right, and the trip through his worry melon changed the path of the pellet maybe 35°, but didn't slow it down a whole lot, which tells me that I don't need medium power (17 FPE) with domed pellets on squirrel head shots. Low (12.5 FPE) would be fine. I've got a tin of Baracuda Hunters inbound, which I think should be a good compromise between a good ballistic coefficient for medium range opportunities, and hopefully some decent expansion to dump a bit more of the energy in the smaller varmints I shoot. Hopefully, still enough penetration for the bigger varmints, up to 20 lb. raccoons.
After the shot, you can see the red blur of a cardinal getting out of Dodge. During peak feeding times, I often have 5+ cardinals, and 8+ of the little bluish-black finch-looking ones. Although they still spook, they're coming back faster and faster; I think they're learning that they're safe from me. I have one pic with about 5 cardinals feeding, not at all concerned about the sparrow corpse laying right there among them.
Please remember to support me by clicking 'Like' in YouTube if you like the videos.
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJVlJ18LTg
Pellet impact only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keAlJ1fqfYI
I've also added these to my full list of pesting videos:
http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=116449.msg1119010#msg1119010
