Set up: gun 1322. 10 pumps. 10m.

 Target: 4 layers of gel shoe insole, wrapped in masking tape. 

 Pellets. 2 each shot into gel.

 Left: h&n field target trophy 

 Middle: gamo red fire. (shot 2, don't know where second went.)

Right jsb hades.

 Pellets in pic retrieve from gel.

 None penetrated all 4 layers. Missing gamo redfire also never made it through tape at back.

 Data:

 Field target trophy :

 14.66gr

  466fps 

  7.07ft.lb (9.59 joules)

 One had turned 180° in gel

 Gamo redfire : 

 15.42gr 

 451fps

 6.97ft.lb (9.45 joules)

 Jsb hades :

 14.66gr 

 451fps 

 7.16ft.lb ( 9.71 joules)

 I'll add more as I do them over time. 

 Anyone else who wants to add please do. 

 

 As you get 2 in box might have to make a thicker one to try with rifle. 

 Appwntly the stuff you can get to make those soft body fishing lures is great. Haven't been able to find any in nz yet. Can be got from USA. 

 Distance 20m / 21.87yards.

 Made another 4 layer gel pad taped one either side of milk bottle full of water,10m, passed strait through. 

 Made a 8 layer gel target. 124 grams, 50.40mm thick.

 37m just sitting on a fence post, was still passing strait through.. Gel was bouncing a foot back but not with any force. 

 So got a chicken thigh bone taped it horizontal in center of gel block, thinking it would deflect up or down.

 

Target: 15m / 16.4yards

 Velocity at target: 890. 27fps /  271.35 m/s

 Energy at target: 18.13ft.lb / 24.58j

 Pellet stopped 6 layers in

 2 shots passed strait threw, where the layers weren't full near the edges. 

 Anything labeled B is the pellet that hit bone .  Others caught in gel only. 

 These pellets in my view are simply a hole punch. I've not seen any expansion results that impress me. 

 Doesn't impart any energy dumping in soft bone or tissue. 

 I still find it a good pellet in this gun. But would seem a bit harder mix of metal than I thought. 

 Got a tin of exact, wonder if they are softer. 

 

 I cant see some one like fx or air arms developing a pellet/slug to expand or deform a certain way, then going to jbs who say, yep not a problem but you can't have that deformation as you have to use our mix of lead, even though we can mix it to your specs as we produce our lead wire.

 Basic out line. I think air rifles will like a type of pellet by a supplier more than others. Probly others of that weight and style. But my guns have a definite prefrance. (hence where facts and figures were)

 I'll keep testing slowly. Would really like to see other ppl doing it as well. 

 I'm not going to cover a lot, more the better data set we have. 

 CHICKEN BONES ARNT HARD TO GET! You'll find them at the end of every roast chicken dinner. 

 Don't have gel? Try a couple of milk bottles filled with water tapped together. But really I could do the help, and I'd like to see other results from differnt pellets at differnt fpe. 

 Have been toying with idea of hollowing out a alloy and replacing with lead. I have a sneaking suspicion that the lead will turn into a shower of fragments as it punches through the alloy on contact with the target. 

 

I remember when I was in the UK at the FT worlds, there were guys there buying trays of tins of pellets.

The pellet suppliers would send them a couple different batches, then if they liked them they would buy up large, like 10,000 pellets worth.

I have to congratulate you on the amount of effort you put into this sorting. I have to ask though, is it worth it in a hunting situation where minute of rabbit head is what's required?

I can understand, maybe, the value of it for 50m benchrest.

A point I learnt was that when fired, the air pressure from a springers piston builds behind the pellet until the pressure is enough to propel the pellet and parachuting (expanding) the skirt. So if there is a gap around the skirt, pressure will bypass the skirt.

In a pcp, the pressure arrives instantly, parachuting the skirt against the rifling straight away. So a good fitting pellet in a springer is vital.