FPE needed to kill various animals

Found this on another forum and thought about sharing it here. They all seem a bit low to me, but what are your thoughts?

I would add, just by my own experience (probs all wrong!):

Small/Medium Turkey: 20FPE
Big Turkey: 25FPE
Magpie: 12FPE
Black Bird: 6FPE
Small Mice: 0.65FPE head only (I did it with a plastic BB pistol at 2m ish!!)
Rat: 4FPE

paulo.baronceli wrote: Found this on another forum and thought about sharing it here. They all seem a bit low to me, but what are your thoughts? I would add, just by my own experience (probs all wrong!): Small/Medium Turkey: 20FPE Big Turkey: 25FPE Magpie: 12FPE Black Bird: 6FPE Small Mice: 0.65FPE head only (I did it with a plastic BB pistol at 2m ish!!) Rat: 4FPE

J-S wrote: paulo.baronceli wrote: Found this on another forum and thought about sharing it here. They all seem a bit low to me, but what are your thoughts? I would add, just by my own experience (probs all wrong!): Small/Medium Turkey: 20FPE Big Turkey: 25FPE Magpie: 12FPE Black Bird: 6FPE Small Mice: 0.65FPE head only (I did it with a plastic BB pistol at 2m ish!!) Rat: 4FPE The quoted minimum FPE would be the retained energy down range required for efficient kill - not energy measured at the muzzle. So for an 18FPE air rifle, 5fpe is probably the retained energy out at 80yards, so its useful to know the energy required for a clean kill, as well as the ballistic info for your gun / pellet combo so you can judge the safe distance you can stretch to dependent on the animal.

That will give me 15m on the sig. 1322 not at all. Haven't sorted the 362 for pellet yet but I'd suppect 10m-15range.
Cheers Nunga, that's info I'll store away.

mercs wrote: Agree with Nunga head or chest. I use .22 Gamo Black Knight 21 ft/lb on H&N FTT. Hi Paulo, I would like to hear about your BSA Spitfire and does the Umarex SurgeMax rail work? cheers

Is there anything specific you’re wanting to know about the Spitfire? I found it to be quite a good gun, and probably amongst the most accurate in my collection - quite beautiful too. If I was to be extremely critical, the gun is quite heavy - maybe part of why it’s so accurate - quicks a bunch, and is very noisy, as my one is the muzzle-break version with no thread for a suppressor, but overall, no regrets for buying it, I really enjoy the rifle and can surely recommend it - a lot of value for your money. It’s the same as the BSA Lightning, but with the Gamo 10 shot mag and a different barrel finish.

The rail on the SurgeMax is a normal 20mm picatinny. If you’re thinking about buying it, I would surely say that unless you get a very good deal, you can probably do better with your money. It’s quite a heavy and powerful rifle too, but it is rough as guts. Quite clunky and the rear stock is full metal, which makes it quite cold to use in the winter, and I don’t know if that’s because I don’t use it much, but even lubricating it often, the barrel break is quite tough and don’t feel as smooth. I’ve heard good things about the Stoeger RX20 (Or S4000 in the USA), which is in the same price range, but seems to be a much better gun.

Edited by paulo.baronceli - 10 Jan 2023 at 6:43pm