My new (old) little .177 bullpup.

Hummm… that’s not a bad idea.
Where can I get some scrap pieces of glass from?

Here is a pic of a pigeon teasing me, and the glass roof up above it 😂😂😂

I used that same gun in a shopping centre for shooting sparrows. It had a big glass dome, so similar situation. I got a couple of small panes of off cuts from the local glass supplier for free.

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.

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.

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…