Close range pesting with wadcutters or HPs?

Have you tried predator polymags. Close range with a lower power gun, they could give you better results.

I like polymags as well. I have never had any luck with hp's like crosman as they seem to perform about like a dome. However, hp's like crowmags being softer lead and a hollowpoint that is much larger, they work well. Wadcutters have worked ok for close range, but my vote would go to polymags and crowmags. The benefit of the polymags vs crowmags is better accuracy and a much longer range if needed. These have been my experiences in similar powered springers and pcp's.

I'd like to second that emotion..(Smoky Robinson, anyone?). Using a small pump up 760, or light shooting CO2 gun, wadcutters work well on mice, rats, and small squirrels. For a more powerful Airgun, I'd always prefer Poly Mag's. Crows and Devastators work as well, but are range limited due to accuracy.
Not to deviate from the subject, for putting down rats in a sticky trap, a wadcutters put into the chamber reversed in a 760 with three pumps is quiet, and considerable. All the warnings apply- there will not be a manufacturer, pellet or rifle, recommending or condoning this behavior, but... It works for me. Not for longer shots, but as a dispatcher to the great beond, they've been effective and rather gruesome.
Crosman HP's are too hard to expand, at least on my soft, California rodentia. 

Look up the H&N Barracuda hunter extreme..

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Have you tried them? Or just egging ME on to try them?

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I've fired the .22 version from a NP springer into a bucket of water to test expansion. They expand very nicely. (As opposed to CPHPs, which do not expand at all...)

Wadcutters around 7gr I've tried in my .177 pumper at 600fps kill birds and short range ground squirrels efficiently with few passing through. I have not experienced much expansion, but they do expel all energy into the target when they don't pass through.

Answered my own question....Nevermind

If most of your shots are 10 yds with the occasional 18 yd shot on pest birds and squirrels you should get setup with a 10 - 12 fpe airgun. That close of ranges even 10 fpe can be allot and have pass thrus on pest birds. I get people commenting on some of my videos about how much power I am using. They say "man you must be using a .22 at 30 fpe for a hit like that" I say no its a .177 @ 10.6 fpe @ the muzzle and the shots are 18 - 21 yds. A nice soft shooting springer or pcp if you want quick follow up shots would be perfect at 10 - 12 fpe. I have two pcp setup for lower power one is .177 and gets over 160 shots on a fill and the other is a 15 fpe .22 carbine that gets something north of 70 shots a fill. I dont remember the last time I filled them

What is most accurate?
Put anything where the life switch is and you will turn it off at that distance.
Flatter point seems to always transfer more energy to living target.

That's not a house sparrow it looks to be a female house finch.

"Smaug"

"X27"Look up the H&N Barracuda hunter extreme..

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Have you tried them? Or just egging ME on to try them?

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I have tryed them. I made a review vid and put it on my YouTube channel. I'll link the video later when I have my tablet its easer. 

I've tried the barracuda Extreme and destroyers- they haven't been accurate enough to warrant much use in my backyard.
I've tried them in 2 different FX's, 2 different Vulcans, Hatsan break barrels, Edgun Veles, Crosman 760, a Cricket- they just weren't accurate enough for the small pests. They must have some gun they do work in.
YMMV?