Posted on 09/27/2016 6:20:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A month after India’s home minister promised to consider replacing pellet guns with a less deadly form of crowd dispersal, the corridors of Srinagar’s biggest hospital are still lined with young men wearing sunglasses and eye patches. In a 21 September ruling, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court declined to prohibit the use of pellet guns.
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Methinks someone has a light hold and an easy pull, with an air rifle of some type.
Modern pellet air rifles can rival some firearms for projectile speed and although the projectile mass is smaller than bullets, they can still do damage.
Birdshot would be awful painful to walk toward.
I have 22 cal break barrels that tosses out Beeman extra heavy 21 gain pellets at 800-900 fps. The lighter ones get to 1000 fps. My preference for rabbits & squirrels is the Gamo ~15.5 grain round lead balls.
Nothing to mess with. They will shoot more than an eye out.
They’ll put your eye out . . . and yours . . . and yours . . .
I have a RWS Model 54, amazing what you can do with it!
Had the opportunity to shoot at 100 yards indoors (NO WIND), from a bench, a soda can was easy pickings.
A noticeable lag on hitting the can!
With the right pellets , keeping it just in the subsonic ...
The photos are of one wound, depending on the choke, distance...
More than one hit?
I used a Daisy pump up air rifle to kill 4 snakes in our implement shed earlier this year. 3 of the 4 were large rattle snakes. Did little or no damage to our barn.
Polish the barrel with Johnson paste wax, use the larger diameter BBs and it is very lethal. One shot between the eyes of a rattler, he dies instantly.
Some people hunt antelopes in Africa with the Benjamin 357. There is a 45 out there that has as much power as a 22LR or a bit more.
Some of the .50 claim over 200 ft lb at the muzzle, or about twice as much as a .22 rimfire.
For me, I just punch paper with 1.77’s.
Cheap, easy and quite.
I have a Gamo Whispercat that excretes a pellet at the speed of sound.
The little sonic boom is very loud, even with the integral suppressor, which I assume is legal because, well, it’s integral. I bought it off Amazon.
It shoots through schools...of squirrels.
One of my 22s is a Gamo whisper. Couple years ago we had quite a bushytail rat problem. They eventually became rare.
I went with the 22 so it doesn’t go sonic.
What the article calls “pellet guns” are shotguns.
Just a stupid journalist nomenclature error.
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