Quote from: bobster on March 22, 2012, 08:35:07 PM totally serious lambchops! No one that I know of has taken scientific readings of this stuff or anything so we can only go on our collective experience. Study your target and know your airgun like you know yourself and be darn comfortable with yourself and airgun when you put the cross hairs on the game cause some are tougher then they look and like any living thing the will to live is a powerful drug that can keep game moving when it should be down. 177 midpowered airguns and be able to drop anything in the wood's but do your homework. I'm not telling anyone to go out with their. It's a learning process and did a bunch of homework on the game that I was looking to harvest. I've heard of some saying but I hit it in the head and yes they did but not in the right spot. It's not just hitting the game in the head but hitting it in a small area that will do the most damage to the brain. I hunt with springers and some pumpers on smaller game and in that time with springers have learned the exact key spot or darn close to bring down the game. There is a point to where certain airguns should not be used on certain game. I spend the time studying the game that I hunt and yes that means checking out the result's of pellet damage to area's on the skull. Personally I've never given the fpe chart's a second thought or even looked at em. Personal best guess is in the area of 3 to 1.īut eventually it ALL devolves to WHERE that energy is applied! In short there is simply no equitable comparison of the energy needed for squirrel and rabbit. But having been an active, enthusiastic and successful squirrel hunter with airguns for over 40 years as well I have an excellent 'feel' for how much energy must be delivered to put them down before they can escape to hole or hide. Having killed rabbits with everything from a thrown stone to a Red Ryder as a child I readily agree with his findings. He found that any of his antiques capable of delivering 3 fpe of terminal energy to a rabbit was sufficient to cause death expeditiously. He eventually quantified his results and shared them in the magazine. His end-of-day final task was a stroll down the long lane to the mailbox with his dog in waning light and he got into the habit of taking along one of his veteran collectables to exercise it on the bunnys. The author was the proprietor of a large sheep station and an avid collector of elderly airguns in the era when the imported Cottontail was a scourge to sheep farming. Exactly what might be anticipated from 'Dr.' Beeman.Ī long forgotten but definitive airgun magazine article from the 1980s by one of our far Southern comrades in NZ or OZ pretty well defined energy needed to kill a rabbit. It strikes me that it was prepared from theoretical data by an academic rather than resulting from practical field experience. Anyone with even a bit of experience knows that a Fox squirrel takes a lot more 'killing' than a Gray and both require a minimum of twice as much terminal energy as a Cottontail. The list may be the rather infamous one from Robert Beeman that has been thoroughly debunked by knowledgeable hunters. "-it seems about right to me for the small stuff." I'm totally guessiing on the big critters as a place to start and hoping someone with knowledge will correct those. Everyone should adjust based on their comfort level also and of course more power is more effective given the same accuracy. So you have to take it with a grain of salt and again we are just gathering opinions, there is no "right" answer. but the same shot in soft spot would be an instant, humane kill.
I know woodchuck skulls for example are hard and if you hit them in the front in the forehead it may just caram (sp?) off. The most important factor in all of this is accuracy and that's why we are assuming a "perfect shot" if you will for the headshot column. It's just a guide and an interesting exercise. Please let me know what numbers you think are off and we can adjust accordingly. So here is a first draft of a chart based largely on lambchops numbers. And what that means is our collective opinions. Totally serious lambchops! No one that I know of has taken scientific readings of this stuff or anything so we can only go on our collective experience.
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