Slo-mo footage!

[ptdunk]

Posted some of this in general...

I had a very productive visit to a high speed studio and got some interesting footage.


First stuff I cobbled together is some footage of 1800's gallery gun darts firing, demonstrating Gerald Cardews 'pop gun' and 'blowpipe' compression characteristics with a volute spring piston and V-spring Bellows airgun:

https://youtu.be/VfvLJgDHgY4

I did a 'barrel movement before pellet leaves barrel' comparison on a few recoiling and semi recoiling match rifles with interesting result.
Done against a scale I will be able to measure how far the barrels move and so give them a scoring on how much they actually move before the pellet leaves the muzzle.

Annoyingly the Diana Mod.60 failed to cock and the Anschutz 250 failed to close after cocking (both worked fine last time I shot them) so it won't be a conclusive mechanism comparison but interesting nonetheless. Maybe that's a non accuracy related indication why these weren't as popular as the ultra reliable FWB300 series?
The HW55 is a surprise....as is the first recoiless match rifle the Anschutz 220....I'll cobble together those clips as a non-public video for viewing by forum members to see what you all think, before I make a better video in the future.
Same test on my tuned 97 vs boingy bog standard one and some great footage of a FWB124 spring in cocking slot on firing.
Also tuned britannia & original spring minty Britannia.

Thanks for peoples suggestions, made for an interesting days filming.

Not that he'll ever read this but thanks to Martin for filming this all, what a star.

Cheers,
Matt