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Now someone mentioned that the gun is doing 50ft/lbs it's got to be a slug right? 26grain at 940ft/s would give you around that.
They call it the slow twist barrel, which logically one would assume to be a pellet barrel.
This is what people are waiting for.
Last edited by arnie2b; 21-03-2019 at 07:18 PM.
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They were never put into production. Some private finance was put into their development to pay for Gerald's time (I was not paid at all) but after the development work nothing was done with them. Some of the pellet manufacturers wanted us to give them the work for nothing and I think they were worried even then by the negative reactions by shooters to anything other than a conventional pellet. Back then it was too much of a gamble.
This was after that book was written but before the book from trigger to target. Nothing was ever included in the book.
What make and model air rifles were used to confirm your theories and wind tunnel work with models and prototypes for the design of a slug.
Confirmation that your slug made waisted pellets look like "the ammunition equivalent of the Model T Ford" in most available air rifles must have been of interest to you? Thats what takes it from being hypothetical to being a winner in the real world. You seem a bit p* ssed that pellet manufacturers didnt want to know at the time. A practical demonstration of its superiority over good commercial waisted pellets in any old barrel with any old twist rate would have opened their eyes.
Actually I wasn't at all p* ssed that no manufacturer wanted to continue as I was more in it for the science. To me it was just an exercise in applying proven ballistic and aerodynamic design which I worked with every day. There was nothing hypothetical or novel in what was done, it was all proven many years ago and used in the evolution of ammunition design since the 1920s. This is why bullets, shells, cannon and tank ammunition all look and are so different to how they were 100 years ago. We just applied those same principles to something suitable for air guns.
Our first attempts were not exactly successful.
Glad you took my post in the manner it was intended. As a shooter I am more interested in the air rifles they were tried in and the results that were obtained using them. Were they everyday airifles as sold in gunshops at the time?
https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/2...-lots-of-pics/
I don’t think slugs group even at high power just look at this report, JSBs one hole group at that distance.
There is no more pin point accuracy we would prefer.
The Current state of affairs and that’s with a special slug barrel or what they claim it is. idon’t know what the authors aim is but for me all that is unacceptable precision. Sorry
Pellets excellent at short airgun distances, slugs are apparently poor both short and long range. it is your choice lol
What is this craze about irresponsibly pushing the distance? Does not make any sense to me. If you can’t hit a bottle cap repeatedly, that’s where you stop FFS!
Last edited by krisko; 24-03-2019 at 12:38 PM.
In early work Gerald used his projector but I really don't know what else was used later on, all the data and records went years ago. I used a HW35 and a Vulcan I had at the time, mainly the HW, and I have fired a few from a TX200 but not many as there are very few in existence now and many of them are slightly different, all in .22. The ones fired from the TX were coming out around 11.4FPE with a velocity loss over 30 yards of just 40ft/sec.