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To: KeyLargo

The air rifle I shoot in competition can kill you. It's muzzle velocity is 570 ft/sec.

23 posted on 09/10/2009 8:41:02 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)

To: airborne

It isn’t all about muzzle velocity though. It depends on the amount of joules behind the pellet, pushing it through the air.

There aren’t enough joules of energy behind a plastic pellet to embed it more than 1cm in skin.

49 posted on 09/10/2009 9:40:49 AM PDT by derekr44

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