I was shooting in my back yard after work today and various distances, to prove out the drop data provided by chairgun.
While shooting at 35 yards at a target stapled to a stump at the back of my yard, my peripheral vision picked up movement. I looked up, and it was a squirrel running across the power line a few yards behind the stump and probably 20' up. Let's call it 38 yards. Since I was just shooting at about that range, I knew what the drop was. There was no wind, and I was shooting from the field target position. I wasn't quite confident enough to take a head shot, so I held over the 1/2 mil dot and aimed just behind the arm for a heart/lung shot.
The nice thing about shooting at the further ranges is that you get to hear the meat slap. It knocked him right off the power line.
I had seen this squirrel before; he never goes IN my yard, just crosses the yard on the power line. "Why, when there is this nice feeder with sunflower seeds, peanuts and bird seed?"
When I recovered the body, I found out why. There was a scar on the left jaw, and a pellet just under the skin on the right jaw. This is the second one I wounded a couple weeks ago with the HW30s, when I had zeroed it for 14 yds. but was shooting them at 10 yds. You'll recall the one I caught up with last week; she was skinny. This one was a healthy weight. When I opened him up, his stomach was FULL. This one had learned to stay out of my yard, after taking a round for his trouble!
Anyway, the pellet was an Air Arms Diabolo Field 8.4 gr., moving out of the TX200 at something near 797 fps. The pellet entered a little forward of where I wanted, through the right arm, just behind the bone. Went through the very top of the chest cavity, (getting the lungs) then through the left shoulder, and the pellet stopped just under the skin on the far side. The starting energy was just below 12 FPE. Chairgun says the energy left at 40 yards is about 7 FPE. So 7 FPE is enough energy for a good chest shot on a squirrel, assuming it doesn't hit the shoulder going in.
The previous pellet was still in him too, a JSB Exact RS, 7.33 gr. Went in the left jaw, through, and stopped just under the skin by the right jaw.
First squirrel with the TX200,
Close-up:
Entry wound, upper arm, just behind the bone:
Into the ribcage:
Out the other side:
Through the other arm:
Healed entry wound scar from two weeks ago with the HW30s:
Here's where that pellet was resting, on the other side. This guy was 7.33 gr. heavier than before.
I cleaned him with my Victorinox Executive Swiss army knife:
Here are the two pellets that were in him. The Exact RS that went through both his jaws on the left, and the Air Arms Diabolo Field that went through his chest on the right:
While shooting at 35 yards at a target stapled to a stump at the back of my yard, my peripheral vision picked up movement. I looked up, and it was a squirrel running across the power line a few yards behind the stump and probably 20' up. Let's call it 38 yards. Since I was just shooting at about that range, I knew what the drop was. There was no wind, and I was shooting from the field target position. I wasn't quite confident enough to take a head shot, so I held over the 1/2 mil dot and aimed just behind the arm for a heart/lung shot.
The nice thing about shooting at the further ranges is that you get to hear the meat slap. It knocked him right off the power line.
I had seen this squirrel before; he never goes IN my yard, just crosses the yard on the power line. "Why, when there is this nice feeder with sunflower seeds, peanuts and bird seed?"
When I recovered the body, I found out why. There was a scar on the left jaw, and a pellet just under the skin on the right jaw. This is the second one I wounded a couple weeks ago with the HW30s, when I had zeroed it for 14 yds. but was shooting them at 10 yds. You'll recall the one I caught up with last week; she was skinny. This one was a healthy weight. When I opened him up, his stomach was FULL. This one had learned to stay out of my yard, after taking a round for his trouble!
Anyway, the pellet was an Air Arms Diabolo Field 8.4 gr., moving out of the TX200 at something near 797 fps. The pellet entered a little forward of where I wanted, through the right arm, just behind the bone. Went through the very top of the chest cavity, (getting the lungs) then through the left shoulder, and the pellet stopped just under the skin on the far side. The starting energy was just below 12 FPE. Chairgun says the energy left at 40 yards is about 7 FPE. So 7 FPE is enough energy for a good chest shot on a squirrel, assuming it doesn't hit the shoulder going in.
The previous pellet was still in him too, a JSB Exact RS, 7.33 gr. Went in the left jaw, through, and stopped just under the skin by the right jaw.
First squirrel with the TX200,
Close-up:
Entry wound, upper arm, just behind the bone:
Into the ribcage:
Out the other side:
Through the other arm:
Healed entry wound scar from two weeks ago with the HW30s:
Here's where that pellet was resting, on the other side. This guy was 7.33 gr. heavier than before.
I cleaned him with my Victorinox Executive Swiss army knife:
Here are the two pellets that were in him. The Exact RS that went through both his jaws on the left, and the Air Arms Diabolo Field that went through his chest on the right:
