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> Subject: 850 fps ideal...
> 
> M>So I'm not arguing with Tim, but I ask if there's an effective
compromise
> M>somewhere between 850 fps pellets and the sort of velocities that
> M>firegunners are used to...
> 
> Michael,  One of the things that these programs don't take into account
> is the actual physical damage (skirt belling) that happens to pellets
> shot from short pulse or higher powered Airguns.  The percentage of
> retained energy can go down from 95.5% to even lower than 92% for the
> same pellet.  This means that a pellet can leave the muzzle much faster
> but arrive down range much slower.  In other words...You can spent a lot
> of time making your Airgun shoot worse.
> 
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>  Keep Shooting!
>                                                 Bruce
> 
This reminds me of the article and pictures in Air Gun World  about two
years ago that had some close-up stop action shots of pellets leaving the
muzzle of a gun at high enough velocity that the belling was very obvious.
So it does happen.
Phil.P.
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