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
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 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
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the comment and the interesting clay idea...that might make a fun video!
@@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
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.
@@elonquemattheson6151 not trying to mimic flesh with it so much as just to understand the physics of what the ammunition is doing
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