From my experience all pellets will kill either, but I have found a wad cutter to put them down faster. I found pointed pellets to over penetrate and exit the animal you want the pellet to stop in the animal and nothing better for that would be a wad cutter. But also my experience is with a benjamin sheridan in 177 cal, I dont know what you have but if its a 177 cal and has a muzzle velocity lower then 750 fps then you may want to go with either domed or pointed pellets. also stay away from daisy pellets they are too light in weight to be an effective small game pellet for longer shots in excess of 25 yards use either RWS,Beeman, and Crosman with those three in wad cutters ive killed squirrel asfar as 50 yards. good luck