Air Rifle Pellet Ballistic Test

This time we're testing our DIY ballistic gel with an assortment of air rifle pellets. We get some interesting results!
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[@baudgaud]

Around 00:35 -- I literally never heard the term "wad-cutter" before, and I grew up in a gun-happy family with lots of different sizes and shapes of air projectors too. Everybody I ever met calls those flat-nosed rounds "target pellets." I looked up the phrase wad-cutter and that's a competition-specific term for that specific ammo, so-named because it cuts perfectly round/visible/identifiable holes in paper targets. So it cuts little wads of paper.
I never heard gamo either, and that orange tip is just weird. I only know about target and hunting pellets, where the hunting munition has a tapered/pointed nose. That gamo thing is dumb looking, like a target round with a bright orange tip glued on instead of a real pellet of any type at all.

[@thelonercoder5816]

Gamo is literally one of the most popular airgun brands in America lmao. It's impossible to not know them if you're active in the scene or go to any gun section of pretty much any sports store. They're everywhere.

[@baudgaud]

@@thelonercoder5816 Being well over the age of 9, the last time I was in the sporting goods store it was to buy propane space heaters and a couple of oversized sleeping bags during a bad winter. I already specified that we were real people working a real ranch and using these things as tools for that job.

[@thelonercoder5816]

@@baudgaud Everyone is a real person. WTF does that even mean lol.

[@baudgaud]

@@thelonercoder5816 Are you even aware that you're posting comments to a specific video on a website called RUclips, where I put in a timestamp tag so legitimate viewers could jump exactly to the part of the video I was answering, or are you just some witless dink sitting in a cubicle where your full-time job is writing troll-bag answers to random text blurbs you get in email?

[@MASTERSAIS]

I found that the powershot has more penetration on a half inch pine bord. So if you want to go though bone that's your best bet. Because it's got that tiny steel pin. And don't mushroom it with go though bigger game bones. Do another video using wood. Thanks for the info on the ballistic gel

[@matthewh4684]

Interesting. Good fun. I do a lot of ballistics testing on air rifles and these new high tech pellets. Never made any gel, but I'll tell ya, you can do some really fun experiments with modeling clay from Walmart. Heating it up makes it softer, and it's amazing to see a little.177 pellet make a ball of clay explode (with the right ammo.) For sheer penetration Gamo lethals, a steel pellet wrapped in plastic to take to the rifling, is the one pellet I think you could actually defend yourself against a person or take a large game animal with, but your shooting has to be pin point accurate if you want a humane kill. I have plenty of traditional firearms but there's just something about the novelty of high powered air rifles that really does it for me.

[@badbloodoutdoors1874]

Thanks for the comment and the interesting clay idea...that might make a fun video!

[@matthewh4684]

@@badbloodoutdoors1874 it's really fun. If you're careful you can cut the clay in half and examine the damage from the pellet's trail. Like to do variations too, like a wad of clay packed into an empty cat food can to see how they handle penetration on some light armor. ALSO, (I could talk all day) for a while I was super gluing steel bbs to the tip of hollow points to increase penetration, long before they were making them with bb tips, and that's a fun experiment too. Has to be a .22 pellet at least. But uhh yes, make some more videos, I don't have the gear to film this stuff in slow motion

[@elonquemattheson6151]

Flat nosed pellets like the gamo lethal have more trouble penetrating skin, fur, and feathers than pointed pellets. Also, clay doesn't mimic flesh. It has very little strength so stretch cavities are wildly exaggerated.

[@matthewh4684]

@@elonquemattheson6151 not trying to mimic flesh with it so much as just to understand the physics of what the ammunition is doing

[@catherineharris4746]

Nice!👍👍👍

[@badbloodoutdoors1874]

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