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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => Hunting Gate => Topic started by: 454 Big Block Chevy on August 23, 2010, 06:41:24 PM
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Got this guy at 28 yards, out of the pecan tree. the FPE really buldged his eyes out badly. he didn't even twitch. no death dance or anything.
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Nice shooting! I think ya might of gave him a headache...lol
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the CFX is so accurate, and powerful enough to just whollup anything i point it at. i wo uld like to know what fps its shooting at. it does punch right through nutters at 20 yards with body shots, and 28 yards up in the pecan tree, the pellets stop inside the head. i'm guessing 700fps ish...
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Nice shooting!
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before i could even get this guy cleaned, another was tearing up my feeder. key word "was". 16 grain pred ended his feast. now 2x to clean.
not as impressive as ed's bandit kills but i try!!!!
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Good pest termination.. them predators sure brings damage to them nutters.
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i finish cleaning the first two... and i look outside... 2 MORE in my feeder... they aparently think this is "there land". Pred away, number one on the ground. #2 runs up a tree.... and barks at me. i take aim at her, and drop her. low and behold... 4 squirrels total today... and i still have over an hour and a half of daylight. 3 males, one female. 2nd female of the year.
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Great shooting.
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More nice shooting there 454!
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Thanks guys... there's 3 more nutters sitting about 50 yards out in no shoot territory, but eyeballing my feeder trying to decide if its "safe". i say bring it on! i might be bringing about 10 nutters up to Gene's for some nutter taco's saturday night.
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i just gave a 5th nutter the pass just now. spat some bark in his face. i am about done cleaning game for one day. 4 nutters skinned and frig'd is enough. i shot the branch next to him. he took off. another BIG male. looking at the above pics you can see how much larger the one male is than the other.
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Nice shootin and a very productive day. I love the white bellies of the rats up there, makes them very easy to spot in the tree.
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ha! i might have to resort to marking them somehow... a shame almost all nutters look alike
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Great shooting on those 4 nutters! It seems you have lots more where those came from.
If you get NO passthrough with a head shot at 28yds, normally I would say your gun is not shooting a 14-16gr pellet at 700fps, but that is with a domed pellet. A domed pellet @ 700fps, should have gone through a squirrel's head at 28yds, but I am not so sure about te Preds.
I know my 850 .22 when it was stock at 610fps it would go through a squirrel's head at 21-22yds, but not much beyond that. Now it's at 650fps, it went through a squirrel's head at 25-26yds. That was with a 14.3gr CPHP (which is basically a domed pellet). So I 'm guessing the Predator could have been very close to 700fps in your CFX, but I am a strong believer that the Predator does not penetrate as deep as a good hard domed pellet like the CP or CPHP, because the Predator is above all a true Hoollow Point, and traditionally hollow point pellets are not great penetrators. However, the Predator stands out from all other hollow points because of the sharp polymer point in the front, but I still don't think it can penetrate as far as one of the harder domed pellets that hardly deform or expland, like the CP & CPHP or Kodiak.
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oh if i use CPHP's, they all pass through. i use preds because i have YET to have a nutter walk away from a good shot. and i was having nutters getting away from CPHP's. hopefully at gene's i'l be able to chrony it. and i get better accuracy at 20 yards with the preds.
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Wow, great day of shooting. I hope you have a big freezer the way your going. Those predators sure have some impact. The eye of the first nutter is proof of that.
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NIce shooting......I can see the last thing he seen, when you squuezed the trigger.........Look close.......
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great haul
nice shooting!
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ha ha ha. thats awesome! the CFX is a perfect mix of enough power, and great accuracy for me. i wish it had a bit mroe fps... but its so nice right now, i dont' know if i want to change it.
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Hey 454, whats the last thing going through those squirrels heads before they hit the ground?
YOUR PELLETS!!
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Just a suggestion for you.
Get yourself a Chrony.
My own .177 CFX gets 768-778fps with Predators and puts 5 inside 0.48" @ 25 yards.
My gas ram .22 CFX gets 554fps with Predators and puts 5 inside 0.61" @ 25 yards.
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Great shooting and pic's bro and you really wrecked him with the Predator. :o Ed
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it seems to penetrate and act almost identically to the 715 fps titan gp i had... penetration at least. and its tearing my Gamo target thats rated for 800+ fps at 10 yards in .22. it sounds about the same. and gene remembers it shooting mid 700's with CPHP's. which works for me.