Will 750 fps with a hollow point pellet be enough to take a gray squirrel at 30 yards?

Or will it just wound? I don't want to be cruel.


RWS Hammerli 850Will 750 fps with a hollow point pellet be enough to take a gray squirrel at 30 yards?
RWS Hammerli 850 - chronograph numbers


655fps with 10.2gr JSB Exact Heavey domed pellets = 9.7ft-lbs


5 shot groups average just under 1in at 50 yards.





This rifle tends to prefer pellets in the 10gr weight range.





A clean, humane kill on a squirrel requires a minimum impact energy of 3.0ft-lbs, with a head shot.





From my airgun ballistics calculator - Your 850, using the JSB Exact heavy domed pellets delivers 5.8ft-lbs at 50 yards. Which is still enough impact energy to make a humane kill on a squirrel or rabbit(5.0ft-lbs)





The optimum sight-in range** for the 850 shooting JSB Exact heavies is 31 yards. This gives you the widest range of flat trajectory...If you sight-in at 31 yards, the pellet will be 1/2in low at 6 yards, dead on at 11, 1/2in high at 21, and 1/2in low again at 35 yards. %26gt;This way you don't have to worry too much about hold over/under out to 35 yards





If you want to hunt small game at ranges greater than 35 yards you're going to have to shoot(practice) until you know the pellet drop.





**I assume you're using a scopeWill 750 fps with a hollow point pellet be enough to take a gray squirrel at 30 yards?
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Chances are someone will have a review of the 850 with every pellet known to man.

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Cf45 is correct! so yes it will, but its more about accuracy and a lethal hit! so find the pellet that is most accurate in your gun! i find that domed pellets are more accurate at 30yrds+. pellets that i like are jsb exacts, beeman fts, crossman premiers and rws super domes/points!
i think it would. know your vitals on a squirrel and aim for those. i would suggest the head or right below the ribcage. Personally i have never killed one with a pellet. Try a CB .22 if you are still not confident. No squirrels have ever sufferd with this round. They are almost silent so you can use them in residental areas. got four squirrels with these.
I found that pointed pellets worked best for squirrels, and I tried lots of different designs. They would shake off BBs and regular flat points, and the hollow points would wound them, but not drop them.





When I used Crossman's pointed pellets in the venerable Crossman 760 (pump-up or pneumatic), which is still available 40 years later, the little b@st@rds just fell down dead.





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If you take a head, or upper torso shot on the squirrel, it should be dead. What I do, is chase them until they run up a tree, then shoot them up there. This is nice, because if you do wound you can see where it goes, and get another shot. Good luck, hope you get one.
C_F_45 nailed it and worked out the numbers there's not much for any of the rest of us to do except reaffirm the basics which is so long as the pellet delivers 3 ft-lbs of impact energy with a head shot it will kill a squirrel.
A good head shot the squirrel is dead. A body shot depends on the location.


It might die fast or slow or not at all.
Maby, Maby not, depends on how big it is.
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