Good thread I have been enjoying it, well most of it, since the beginning.
I have been dispatching critters with CB's since the 70's maybe earlier, as I don't recall exactly when I first began to use them.

Todays thinking on how much gun is needed is way out of proportion to what is actually needed,,, But that is my personal opinion. Shot placement IMHO is the real key, not so much what is used.

In the early 60's I saved and bought a Sheridan 5MM Blue Streak pellet gun, that I still use on occasion. It has dispatched no telling the critters, undoubtedly thousands, of many varieties since, with 14 grain pellets, at never more than CB velocities.