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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tratyn Runewind" data-source="post: 365195" data-attributes="member: 685">Hello again!Pretty much.  There are 2 factors at work here:1) the smaller projectile is facing more air resistance, because it is moving faster (the way the resistance scales with speed will overcome the advantages of smaller cross-section past a certain velocity), and 2) it loses more of its velocity to overcome a given force of air resistance because of its smaller mass.You can see the dynamics of this in the tables posted - as velocity gets lower, the slugs lose less and less velocity after each succeeding 100 yards, as air resistance lessens at their new, lower speeds.The smaller bullets just don't "buck the wind" as well as the heavier ones.  I seem to recall stories of competition shooters in DCM (now CMP) matches finding out just how true this was when they finally shifted from the M-14/M-1A to the M-16A2/AR-15A2 in their "service rifle" matches a few years back.Yes, it may not bother a Great Old One much, but it should do nicely against your average demented cultist, or lesser minions like Deep Ones.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Hope this helps!</blockquote>