Fruits & Bullets

dd

With a high-speed camera setup, a gun & some random fruit, one can take some fascinating photos. I've always thought that firing into ballistic gel might be a more scientific and accurate representation of what a bullet can do to, say, a deer, although slightly boring. But shooting fruit never occurred to me. Here's a sample of a bullet in a banana, the long way -<br />
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Ugly

Nice pictures! I'm definitely going to have to try some of those shots with my squirrel getter, ah, I mean my 1100 fps air rifle; with the proper pellets, some of the fruit explosions should be big and messy.

Santa Fe Jim

Methinks thou has too much free time!<br />
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Ugly

I bought 4-5 different tins of pellets, for hunting, penetration, expansion, etc.; like to see if they all perform as advertised.

Saguaro Kid

Ugly wrote on Jul 14 2009, 12&#58;58 AM:

I bought 4-5 different tins of pellets, for hunting, penetration, expansion, etc.; like to see if they all perform as advertised.

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Ah, yes! A little "backyard ballistics"? <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shoot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shoot:' /> <br />
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Ugly

Devereaux wrote on Jul 14 2009, 10&#58;40 PM:

I have been told that it takes quite a few shots (like >500) to have the barrel properly broken in. At least on the Gamo's, which is what I have (in addition to an old Sheridan .20). You are suppose to shoot the heaviest pellets the gun will take to break in the barrel - when it starts to actually shoot a group, you can try other stuff. Since I haven't gotten to that magic number, all I can report is that I have not yet been impressed with the accuracy of my Gamo.

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Now, I haven't heard anything about breaking in an air gun's barrel, but, it makes sense in that you coat, and lap the barrel with those soft pellets and that should tighten up groupings after awhile but, I never looked into it; I just try to shoot pests. I have a Crossman "Quest", single cocking barrel-type gun that I picked up for @ $129.00 at a cheap department store.<br />
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From 30 feet I can constantly hold thumbnail groups (head shots); I just have a cheapo scope on the gun but, it seems to do the trick. I have to make sure the critters are in front of a tree, otherwise, at 1100 fps, the pellets still go through the stockade fence.<br />
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I eventually want to get the "whisper" with the night sights, flashlight and all the goodies in .22; that shoots sub sonic and has the "50%" noise suppressor on it; a two-stage trigger should really help in the accuracy part also. <br />
.22 pellets should really do a job on the @#%*'; raccoons that are using my yard as an outhouse.<br />
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Just another thing to spend $$$ on but, kind of neat too.