As stated ealier using powder allows the shooter to dial into the sweet spot where you may not get there with pellets under any combination of gr. Dependshow far you want to take this. You may pickup another .25-.50 inch accuracy over 100 yards. Thats a mile for a competitive shooter butmay seem little to a deer hunter.The cross debate is why wouldn't you want the max accuracy from your gun in a situation where you may experience an adrenalin dump. (aka: buck fever) Ibelieve most competitive shooters are using powders.

Take a box of pellets and weigh each one and you will find alot of weight/dimensional inconsistancy. Any openspaces you have in your charge by using pellets can cause an inconsistent burn. Using powder fills up all these spaces creatinga consistent burn.

Pellets are much more expensive andany convenience they market is just not worth the trade off in accuracy.Using a speed loader with powder is as fast as pellets in a follow up shot scenario.