TeaCoffee.Guy
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I wonder how much more power the "compressed nitrogen" pellet guns will have compared to the ordinary pellet guns. Anybody know?
That will wreck a nice spring piston gun, they need a pellet (a lead one!) to slow down the piston to a level where it is not destructive to the gun.Todays pellet rifles are pretty damn powerful. A person could easily get killed by one for sure. I just cant see trying to "scare" off an animal with a pellet rifle with a direct hit. A person could fire one off without the pellet and it sounds just like a .22 lr . As for a deer , shooting one with a pellet gun or bb gun,, it would be cruelty to animals and a nice long prison term.
The dieseling is also hard on a gun.Yep, and for even more noise and power, Forget to clean a drop or two of oil from the bore, when fired, the oil will diesel ignite, makes nice smoke rings too.
Assuming that the wolf was shot with a more common pellet gun.....
How close would the wolf had to have been to the gun for the pellet to penetrate as it did ??
Admittedly , the pellet didn't hit bone , but it still would have needed to penetrate the fur,the skin,an unknown amount of intra-rib muscle ( called intercostal muscle) as well as the pleura and still have the energy to puncture lung....
I'm thinking that this wolf must have been quite close. Probably damn scary for the shooter !!
4 ft lbs kills..Darn straight pellet guns can kill. However, even the heaviest 22 Cal pellets out of uber air rifles will not generally exceed the energy of a 22LR. I think the heaviest 22 pellet is 32gr. Muzzle velocity out of a high-end hunting air rifle will run around 1,000fps with a heavy pellet.
Like the lowly 25ACP proves, all it takes is 60-something lbs to kill and a lot less with a lucky shot.
As for a deer , shooting one with a pellet gun or bb gun,, it would be cruelty to animals and a nice long prison term.
828.12 Cruelty to animals.—
(1) A person who unnecessarily overloads, overdrives, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily mutilates, or kills any animal, or causes the same to be done, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner, commits animal cruelty, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or both.