JSB Knock Outs 10gr .177

TWO shooting sticks - good on ya that's almost bench rest shooting and sounds like a good idea.

But maybe I need to go to the gym and you need to go to stretch classes young man. 

But seriously, how do you shoot when testing pellets/slugs? Always with the shooting sticks?

You sure have no trouble getting decent groups...

Which are the 10 grainers in your later posts Pete? JSB or Spyda slugs? Or something else?

Your field testing ballistics is really interesting. And your standard shooting is upright with a shooting stick? I'm trying to figure out how to get accurate on my feet without doing some weight training but I have an allergy to gymnasiums  

And I'm going to do some shooting sitting and also standing with my camera mono and tripods. 

Last night I shot a rat at 32yards. Was a neck shot angled into the body.
Necropsyed it this morning
Slug entered left side of the neck, just behind the head, smashed through the spine completely severing it into two (a rats spine is about the diameter of a pen), top of the lungs and into the abdominal cavity.
Recovered perfectly mushroomed.
I’d love to know if it expanded before or after it went through the vertebrae, but I guess I’ll never know.
It performed perfectly, dumped all of its 22FP of energy into the rat (pole axed it on the spot) and came to a stop in 7 or 8cm.
You can’t ask for better performance!

So after re-tuning little Emma for the 10grainers on monday, I took her out to work on monnday night.
12 rabbits and a hare. Collected 5 rabbits and the hare for further investigations.
Shots were mostly just over 40yards, with one at 76yards.

From the 6 carcasses I retrieved 5 slugs. All of them had deformed to some extent, 3 of them beautifully.
The pass through was a side on head shot at 43yards.
The hare was a diagonal head shot, through the eye, the brain and slug was recovered under the skin on the back of the head! Thats all of... 7 ? cm?
The 76yard shot was base of the back of head of a rabbit, slug recovered in the mouth/cheek just under the skin. That might be even less than 7cm! Amazing.

I am blown away by these little slugs, (and they really are little! Flippen tiny when you are trying to load them into a magazine with big sausage fingers!)
Their ability to mushroom, dump all of their energy into the target and come to a complete stop with in 10, 8, 5cm... is truly amazing.

From a pest control perspective, where I'm shooting on other peoples property it really gives you a little piece of mind knowing your projectile has a 95% chance of not exiting your target, and its going to give it a serious smack too!

But at 22FPE, I'll still reserve them for big properties
Little Elly with her 12.4FPE 8.44grain Exacts is still my first choice for small properties.

Edited by RangerPete - 23 Oct 2024 at 5:47pm

Hey Pete that pellet data base has jsb knock out slugs. Your research would be awesome on it. If you want to add it.