My new (old) little .177 bullpup.

Gee, that's impressive Pete. Just goes to show you don't need high power, just placement.

I’m trying to build a website at the moment, and I needed a “wow” photo to show the kind of pest control that can be achieved if the rabbits are around.
In the afternoon I checked the balistic calculator out to 60m, in a strong side wind 😡. I hate wind.
Started with the nikko stirling 6-24x50 FFP, wanted to check it’s zero out at 60. Almost packed up before I had even started with that hard blowing side wind, then I thought to my self, use it as a training excersize, because I have very little experience shooting in strong wind, it just frustrates me so I usually go home 😂.

First few shots were frustrating. At 30m I was aiming off by 6cm. Aiming for the middle swinger and hitting the one next to it! At 60m it was worse. Managed to work out the hold over and how far off to hold for the wind and got a decent 3 shot group at 60m
Then switched to the Pard DS35. The balistic calculator worked out the drop correctly, and I had to hold off for the wind, but managed to get two shots on the spinners at 60m. Aim at the big one and hit the one next to it… 😂😂😂





I was actually quite chuffed with my self for beating the wind, so before it all went south I decided to call it on the spinners and go look for some rabbits. I had some work to do if I wanted to get that “wow” pic.
Started at 2pm, walking slowly around and talking quietly to the horses, didnt see a rabbit for an hour!

Eventually at around 3 they started slowly appearing and my shooting session started.
The later it got the more rabbits came out. I managed to shoot a bunch, and then about another 8 that I couldn’t find.
5 hours later and sick and tired of climbing through electric paddock fences to retrieve dead rabbits, I finally got my photo.

I happened to be out for a walk last night when I met a bunny.
I happened to also be carrying little Elly…
Unlucky bunny…

Ja, I think a .22 with its larger frontal area is able to transfer/dump more energy into the target, resulting in less penetration.
This would be an interesting test to do, side by side…
If we compared two theoretical pellets, a .177 and a .22, both at the same power level, let’s say 5fpe, they would have stats something like this…
.177 JSB exact weighing 8,44gr @ 517fps gives 5.01FPE
A .22 JSB exact weighing 15.89gr @ 377fps gives 5.02FPE
Different size pellets, huge difference in weight (basically double), and a difference in velocity, BUT both projectiles are carrying the same amount of kinetic energy.
In theory the .177 with its smaller frontal surface area should “slip through” the pigeon easier, requiring less force to travel through the medium, taking longer to transfer its energy into the target, resulting in further penetration.
The .22 on the other hand, with its larger frontal surface area is going to meet more resistance from the pigeon, find it harder to push through the tissue, use more of it’s available energy to keep forward momentum and there for transfer energy into the target quicker, resulting is less penetration then the .177…   In theory.
To express that theory in a different way, a .22 projectile should require more FPE to penetrate to the same depth with in a given target, then a .177 projectile would require to penetrate to the same depth.

Hummm… 🤔
Maybe we should be using low powered .22’s for close range pigeon work (where over penetration is not desirable). 🤔
Definatly more testing to be done.

That beam behind it is smaller then it looks 😂😂😂
And any sort of pellet path deviation inside the pigeon is going to result in a small change of the exit pellets trajectory… hummm 🤔
I keep telling my self that glass should be able to withstand a good hail storm, so should be at least 5mm thick…???
But still safer to wait for another day when I’ll catch him in a better position.
Be interested to know what your FPE findings are Kruza.