<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Russ6357:
I have been playing with my FAC rated Pro-sport and RWS Meisterkulgen .22 pellets.

750 fps at the muzzle and a measure 620 odd at 20 yards... <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="Roll Eyes" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->[/quote]

...launched with 750fps will typically have much less left at 20yds than that -- more like 585. That's only 60% of the initial energy.

This doesn't mean that flattops aren't noticeably more devastating in small quarry (incl' vegetables <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Big Grin" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->) at short range than domes. They are -- because the wadcutter deposits more energy per mm of wound track just as it sheds more energy per yard in air. But it does mean that this modest advantage (which to begin with is relevant only to quarry so small that you probably don't NEED a boost to lethality) becomes a liability at all but the shortest ranges.

That means, for my purposes, WCs just aren't versatile enough to justify setting up for.

But different strokes... <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_cool.gif" alt="Cool" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:--> <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->
Steve