Slugs — Testing How Much They Expand and How Far They Penetrate

[JungleShooter]

Could I request a photo of you eating cured slug Please.

My stomach heaves violently thinking about it and I've eaten a lot of weird shit.

Dave

Dave,

I don't have a pic of the actual eating, but I have a pre-meal photo. Note the 1-Euro coin and the Quarter for size comparison.

Enjoy. Keep heaving! 😄


Matthias

[Unframed Dave]

That Sir is not a slug. I've eaten plenty of snails. Have to admire your constitution, that is a big bugger.

Dave

[JungleShooter]

I stand corrected.
I guess I know more about guns than biology. No surprise there.
The latter always bored me out of my mind. The former kept me up at night — even decades before I owned my first gun.

Matthias

[the growler]

Just a note. I like air rifle slugs. But some of the fx brand have lowered by guns power, which is fac. By as much as 6ftlbs. Reason that they ste very tight fitting.

[angrybear]

Just a note. I like air rifle slugs. But some of the fx brand have lowered by guns power, which is fac. By as much as 6ftlbs. Reason that they ste very tight fitting.

IIRC they "lost" something like 5ftlb through my FAC Rapid, at the other extreme they shot at only 7.6ftlb through my Scorpion.

[JungleShooter]

Yeah, that's the thing with slugs... — because of their larger sidewall surface they create more friction with the barrel, and so they loose some energy....

With a FAC P15 I went from 30FPE to 27FPE when switching from the 16gr JSB domed pellet to a 22gr slug....


I still have to try and see what happens with my sub12 PCP.

NSA and Griffin make fairly light slugs that could work (I HOPE!) at those power levels (not for hollow point expansion, mind you, but for a high BC projectile (that requires very accurate ranging!). 😊


Tom Holland of Field Target Tech makes slugs for .177cal, as low as 10 grains light.
https://hardairmagazine.com/news/177...s-tom-holland/
https://www.fieldtargettech.com/


So many options! It's a great time to be an airgunner! 👍🏼😄

Matthias

[aj]

The 23 grain H&N slugs through my FAC Uragan caused the muzzle velocity to drop from 900fps (with 18.13 JSB heavies) to 800fps, but because of the extra weight of the slugs the energy stayed the same @ 32.6ft lbs.

[gtfreight]

Dave,

I don't have a pic of the actual eating, but I have a pre-meal photo. Note the 1-Euro coin and the Quarter for size comparison.

Enjoy. Keep heaving! ��



Matthias

That's a tortoise with athletesfoot. ��

[JungleShooter]

Projectile Tests. PT062.

BY: First State Airgun (2020).
Ballistic Gel DIY + Clay
12FPE ME
FX 22 @504fps



LINK (just add www to the front of this):
youtube.com/watch?v=OicbWnNdWhE

[JungleShooter]

Projectile Tests. PT019.
BY: GunPowder&AirPower (2019)
Ballistic Gel 20% – c. 5cm Thick.
29FPE Impact energy
NSA 23 @752fps + FX 22 765fps

LINK (just add www to the front of this):
youtube.com/watch?v=t9PFWn5Qnn4

[Steyr]

I cannot help but notice that of your acronyms, you have quoted F&D and R&D but omitted DFM - perhaps the most important of all irrespective of pellet, bullet or quarry, FPE or FPS etc.

[JungleShooter]

Steyr, 😊

please enlighten me — what is DFM?
Same as DRT?

Matthias

[247sniper]

Interesting topic....

[Steyr]

Steyr, 😊

please enlighten me — what is DFM?
Same as DRT?

Matthias

DON'T F.......G MISS

Expansion becomes a secondary issue