Well different pellets for different shooting wish I had the magic pellet
I use the lighter 14 gr Crosmans for plinking with my modded Crosman 150 pistol, 21 grain pellets Kodiaks/Barracuda Matches for my Condor to about 50 yards and and 28 grain Eun Jins and 30 grain piledrivers for serious hunting past 50 yards up to about 100 yards. I find that the 28 grain plus pellets work best at longer ranges as the wind does not push them around as much.
At power level 10 on my .22 Condor I was able to blast thru both sides of a 2 litre plastic Coke filled with water at around 110 yards, gophers and magpies are usually dropped with 1 shot. Shooting a metal spinner with a plus 60 ft lb setup is entirely different than a 30 ft lb setup ballistic software tells the real story and hunting will confirm the difference in a hurry.
So there really is no all in one answer for you, different pellets work differently in different airguns and some are better for hunting and or target shooting than others lots of factors here.
Pictures of 30 grain Piledrivers shot into plumbers putty at around 950 fps, not many airguns can push a
extra heavy pellet to this velocity though so just remember there is a real world difference between a under 50 meter target gun and a 100 yard hunting PCP setup.
Two completely different types of airguns that cannot do what the other does, one is for target shooting one is for hunting.
I used a 30 ft lb setup for years but got tired of seeing game get away. Don't fool yourself a 100% increase in projectile mass fired at the same velocity makes a world of difference at any range, as no one can control a pellets flight at longrange so forget the shot placement arguement to make up the difference, how many people do see using .223 in the bush hunting deer???
Randy
