then I tried a lighter setup and ammo and went from to very consistent and was using 8mm ammo but they where going through the quarry that fast the entry wound was closing and giving them enough blood still pumping to get out of sight then dying or into a hole obviously not what you want so I upt to 9.5mm steels and found them excellent for the 10m + stuff then about a year ago I tried 8. I started of with a HH and 10 and 11mm steels 25-20 red precise 0.70 and 0.80 gzk black and I was getting no where with consistency and distance. Offcourse personally I don't get alot of goes at them as I work Mon-Fri bit a very good friend of mine takes care of our squirrels accuracy kills buddy you have to be hitting the kill zone aswell and with a squirrel it's from bottom of jaw to the top off the head (between red lines) I hunt 6 out the 7 nights and days at weekends when possible and I can honestly say I could never ever achieve anywhere near the amount of kills with any heavier ammo than the 9.5mm steels I would need full butterfly 0.80 + bands. then I tried a lighter setup and ammo and went from to very consistent and was using 8mm ammo but they where going through the quarry that fast the entry wound was closing and giving them enough blood still pumping to get out of sight then dying or into a hole obviously not what you want so I upt to 9.5mm steels and found them excellent for the 10m + stuff then about a year ago I tried 8.7mm steels and and the trajectory was flatter for 15-20m yet super fast and enough oomph for the kill shot Since slingshots kill by blunt force the bigger, slower ammo delivers more energy into the target and results in a clean kill rather than something running away hurt.Ĭlick to expand.Offcourse personally I don't get alot of goes at them as I work Mon-Fri bit a very good friend of mine takes care of our squirrels accuracy kills buddy you have to be hitting the kill zone aswell and with a squirrel it's from bottom of jaw to the top off the head (between red lines) I hunt 6 out the 7 nights and days at weekends when possible and I can honestly say I could never ever achieve anywhere near the amount of kills with any heavier ammo than the 9.5mm steels I would need full butterfly 0.80 + bands. You up that to an 84 grain projectile like 11mm steel, and at 250 fps you've got nearly 13 ft lbs of energy being put into the target. Turns out that smaller projectiles in the 60-70 grain range only put out 7-8 ft lbs of energy when moving 280+ fps. I found an extremely useful ballistic calculator app, just to see what the ft lbs of energy being delivered into the target were. About a month ago we recorded this video but we held onto it in favor of releasing some more timely material. Even with that speed, and well placed shots, squirrels were running off on me. I've been speed testing since I first bought a chronograph, and have always had smaller ammo going 280+ fps, with most being in the 295-310 fps range. Where an 8-9mm projectile would completely miss, the 11mm will hit.Ģ) speed doesn't necessarily equal power. I found two things with using larger ammo.ġ) bigger projectile = would be misses with smaller ammo become hits. Like all ethical hunters, I hate hurting an animal and not recovering it. Or perhaps you'd like to tell a story about it-or show, through figurative language, how time can be manipulated or how it manipulates you.To add to my previous entry in this, I've recently fallen in love with 11mm steel for hunting, especially squirrel. Perhaps you would want to consider having a conversation with Time, as if it were a person. And more good is yet to come.įor the Loop Poetry Project this week, write a poem about your relationship with time-what you think about it, how you approach it. Look at how long you have lived! All of life is set before you. There is nothing to fear this day in the ticking of a clock, the weakening of a body. What a miracle to experience the aging of a body and a beating of a heart both held in the gaze of God? What a miracle to get to mess up and try again and forgive and love even when it hurts and feels impossible. What a miracle to get to think and dream, accept challenges and work problems. What a miracle to awake to light each day and the darkness each night.
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