By: Zipp

Zipp — Tue, 05 May 2015 01:44:25 +0000

It is often overblown that the .25 is not a good or better long range shooter than the smaller calibers. If given a choice, I think most shooters would choose to adjust for elevation rather than windage. Windage is a dynamicaly changing varible, while elevation remains fairly constant from your given location. In fact, not only does the .25 buck wind better, but it also resists instability better than its smaller brethren, making it accurate under varying conditions. That being said, everyone knows that the .25 carries more momentum and thus, more power to the target, as well as more power to greater ranges than the .177, .20, and .22. The .25 will whack um at distances where the smaller calibers will simply bounce off. This too is a factor of momentum. The .25 will take a bit longer, or cover more distance to slow down being that it’s heavier. A simple test that may well be over-simplification would be to throw a BB at a glass window from 10 feet with all your might. Most likely, the BB would bounce off with little or no effect. Now in turn, throw a billard ball at the same window from the same distance and see what happens. The billard ball is just as solid as the BB, but the billard ball is obviously bigger and heavier. It takes a lot more to slow down the billard ball than the BB. You would have to throw the BB at extremely high speed to get the BB to penetrate the glass, let alone make a crack. Still this “high speed” is often counterproductive, as pellets are not made to the exacting tolorences or same tolorences that bullets for powder firearms are. Speed, as in too much typically destabilizes pellets and this is especially true with the smaller caliber pellet. Trajectory alone is deceptive if you do not account for the many other factors involved.

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