opinions on an air pistol i have bought

[tinbum]

A cardboard box stuffed with rags is ideal for pistols

[Gary88]

https://youtu.be/MTzzYQYy6b4

here a video first shot hits the glass the two other shots are at the plastic lenor bottle from a 8ft distance

[Gary88]

A cardboard box stuffed with rags is ideal for pistols

https://youtu.be/MTzzYQYy6b4

here a video first shot hits the glass the two other shots are at the plastic lenor bottle from a 8ft distance

its does shoot the beer can but will not shoot the glass or the plastic bottle?

[Mark D]

Invest in some lightweight proper shooting glasses and insist on anyone shooting or watching wears them 👍

At any clubs or shoots I have attended it's mandatory to wear eye protection. Doing so at home will prevent a visit to A&E or your GP.

Steel plate is fine to shoot at with lead pellets, even at 3ftlbs they will flatten and drop.

Enjoy your time with the kids

[Gary88]

yes i will get some glasses sorted does it sound about right that the pistol will not penetrate a plastic bottle or could this pistol be underpowered i have no other experience with pistols so i am unsure on what the power should be like? Also its not that accurate but i am putting that down to the pellets as i have looked and certain pellets do not seat correctly if that makes sense so i am assuming this would be causing the pellet to fly off a certain way as some of the pellets shot dead straight?

[Gary88]

i have been in touch with pellpax and i should have the air rifle this weekend so hopefully the rifle is a lot safer using metal targets and me and the kids can use the pistol just for shooting balloons in the middle of the garden it does that pretty good mind i am using extra large balloons

[Adam77K]

I learnt as a teenager that you need either very soft or very hard things to stop pellets safely, from my extensive experimentation. Thankfully without injury. Hard things like concrete slabs or steel plate let the pellet flatten and drop away. Soft things like boxes of rags catch them. Wood is very bad as you've found, as it's resilient. Springy; you can make bows out of it.

The easiest pellet trap is a big cardboard box full of rags: old t-shirts, towels, sheets whatever. Just tape a new front on once the original starts falling apart. Pellets can eventually chew through the middle so keep checking and rearrange the rags occasionally or stuff more in.

Pistols aren't necessarily "more miss than hit" but they are harder to shoot accurately, and cheap ones are more likely to be less accurate in the first place.

The Gamo website give a velocity of 105m/s (345 fps) for the P900, which equates to between 1.8 and 2.2 ft.lbs with the typical range of plinking pellets. That would penetrate a coke can but not a bean tin so it sounds about right.

[Geezer]

I learnt as a teenager that you need either very soft or very hard things to stop pellets safely, from my extensive experimentation. Thankfully without injury. Hard things like concrete slabs or steel plate let the pellet flatten and drop away. Soft things like boxes of rags catch them. Wood is very bad as you've found, as it's resilient. Springy; you can make bows out of it.

The easiest pellet trap is a big cardboard box full of rags: old t-shirts, towels, sheets whatever. Just tape a new front on once the original starts falling apart. Pellets can eventually chew through the middle so keep checking and rearrange the rags occasionally or stuff more in.

Pistols aren't necessarily "more miss than hit" but they are harder to shoot accurately, and cheap ones are more likely to be less accurate in the first place.

The Gamo website give a velocity of 105m/s (345 fps) for the P900, which equates to between 1.8 and 2.2 ft.lbs with the typical range of plinking pellets. That would penetrate a coke can but not a bean tin so it sounds about right.

This.

I have spent decades shooting at targets mounted on big cardboard boxes stuffed full with other bits of cardboard, paper, spam mailings, catalogues, phone directories (do they still exist?), old socks with holes in them, worn-out t-shirts, etc. Almost anything soft, basically. And backed with either a lump of hardwood (old chopping board?) or metal (baking tray?). Ideally placed in front of something else resistant like a brick wall or a tree stump, preferably a decaying one.

And never a shot-through or a ricochet.