ORIGINAL: Howler
so if a shot shell pellet weight is the same or close to the same as a 22 or .223 then it is just as deadly coming back down.
And there in lays the problem, the shot shell pellet, a #6, 7 1/2, or 8 shot whcih would normally be used for small game hunting, is NOT even close to being the same size or weight. SO, the heavier rifle bullets, although falling the same speed, will penetrate further than a shotgun pellet, or even several shotgun pellets, because they are spread out, so they don't carry, or deliver, the same kinetic energy upon impact.
The reason I mention thatshotgun pellets don't travel as far is because rareis the occasion that you're shooting straight up, there will be some horizontal travel, there for, the rifle bulletWILL travel further horizontally than the shotgun pellets ever will.
here what a 50 grain 22 look after itcomes out
it is blunt not pointed
I certainly understand terminal velocity, BUT I also undertand that a heavier object moving at the same speed is going to deliver more kinetic energy upon impact.Would ya rather have a bowling ball drop off a roof onto your head, or a 50 gr. 223 bullet. Heck, by your way of thinkin', they both will do the same amount of damage! After all, they have the same terminal velocity, Right, Ohhh, But wait, just maybe, one will deliver more kinetic energy upon impact, because it weighs more. Just maybe. Do ay think![8D]A #7 1/2 pellet only weighs about 2 gr. and a bullet will weigh 40 or 50 gr. SO, about 20 or 25 pellets would have to strike the same exact spot at the same exact time to deliver the same kinetic energy that a single bullet would. Look at the difference for yourself.
The pic. is a 50 gr. 22 cal. bullet with 3 #7.5 lead pellets!
