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Soaking the lether softens it and makes it more supple, thus allowing it to absorb more energy from the pellet with out breaking.
If you dried the leather out it would become harder and more “brittle”, more likely to crack allowing the pellet to penetrate and would probably cause more deformation to the pellet.
If you take those two situations to extreams, it’s like shooting a pellet into multiple layers of a hanging bath towel, will absorb all the pellets energy, towles will probably be fine and can probably reuse the pellet, vs shooting the same pellet into a 1mm thick galvanized sheet, damage to metal sheet, probably a hole, and pellet will be mooshed flat…
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Wet leather is definitely more plyable.
The extra engery it absorbs will vary on how loose the leather is. Tight wrapped it can't "give" as much due to tensed fibers. As both wet and dry were same distance and tension I see that theory as part of it. I think the swelling of the indervidual fibers also causes a denser matting (if that's the right word) of them, also making the leather denser than it was. Again speculation on my behalf.
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I remember hearing about if you shoot into a dry sheet hanging on a line the sheet will often catch the pellet. But if it's wet the pellet will pass through. Never tried the theory for fear of putting holes in my wife's sheets hahaha
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Just claim it was moths. Lol.
So cutting under the head did nothing for expansion either. Did a couple of pellets each of a 4 and a 8 under cut.
So disappointed and resigned to the fact I'm probly never going to get decent expansion without a pcp went onto something else I've been meaning to test.
Dacron as a pellet catcher. After seeing how well the sleeping bag stopped crossbow bolts it's had me curious.
So the non expanding pellets were shot into leather with a dacron backing at 10m from 1322. Caught them nicely. But hey the leather probly took some energy out. So I got rid of the leather, folded the dacron 6 layers thick, put it in my pellet trap (cheapo gun City thing that the rifles blew the back out of shortly after I got it and had to throw a couple of steel plates in.) pumped the 1322 up ten times, placed it an inch from the dacron, stood to the side and fired. Did it 5 times after no ricochet from the first.
Though the pellet's would punch to layer 5 of the dacron, the pellet never got through the 3rd layer.
Its pretty impressive stuff really.
None of the pellets caught had any damage at all.
You can buy the stuff. Some sleeping bags and cushions have it. The stuff I used was out of old cushions, but the sleeping bag will be getting pulled apart for target backing next fine day.
2 pics, two differnt shots. One to show how far it pushes into the dacron without letting through. (the next two layers looked the same)
One to show the pellet caught and held and the indent into the other layers.
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Kruza, don’t scorn your HW for not getting mushroomed deformed pellets, none of my PCPs or springers do either, (in a rabbit)
Seems u need to get a pellet moving well over 900 or 950fps to get them to mushroom in a “soft” target like a rabbit.
Of course if u shooting something as hard as steel plate, a 4.FPE air rifle will get a lovely flat mushroomed pellet, but we’re not interested in shooting metal, we’re looking for perfect terminal ballistic performance in small game 😂
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