Ugly Sauce
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Those the same as the old Beeman Crow Magnum? Those were great lil pellets.
I suggested the old Benjamin pellets a while back because they were a full "soup can" cylinder with a small dome and small hollow base. Full diameter the whole length of the pellet.
Might also try some of those pellets with the plastic ballistic tip. I culled a canada goose with one once.
@Ugly Sauce you should try a magnum primer with just the pellet. Might pick up a bit of that drop in aim back up?
Correct, and correct! Those "super rabbit magnums" (!!!) are a small hollow base bullet. The base is .223", ahead of that it is slightly smaller.
I'm out of small rifle magnum primers at the moment, but I think that is the way to go, if for no other reason just to up velocity a bit. If it raises POI up a bit that would be a plus. I think it has enough oomph right now for grouse, but I'll do some penetration test just to make sure.
Goose with an air rifle? Now that's a good trick. Must have surprised you, unless you were shooting a very powerful one. ? Way back when I worked on an exploratory drilling rig, way up in the mountains, on one of the Indian reservations, the geologists used to come up and pick up the core samples. One of them had just a cheapo air gun and shot grouse with it quite often. I don't think the tribe would have been happy about that, but he would always proudly show us his kills.