FX SLUG EXPANSION: SPARROW HUNT GRAPHIC

[Shooting Targets]

Examples of the fx slugs vs sparrows and the expansion. if anybody is interested in the expansion even on little animals yes they do expand before exiting even on small little birds. WARNING this video is extremely graphic and for educational purposes.

 

[Dan25]

30 cal on sparrows? Well one of my favorite sayings is use enough gun so….

 

[LDP]

Meh looks just like my .22, .25 or .30 hitting sparrows with jsb pellets. Pellets in .25 or .30 going 900 fps turn a house sparrow inside out. Good video but I dont see anything that looks any different than a pellet thats running 900 fps or more.

 

[Shooting Targets]

Good to know ! I was more curious if these slugs would even expand on something so small. Pellets seem softer

 

[Nsboost]

I make my own hollow o give slugs (what the hybrid is) and the expansion is CRAZY. I have a hard time getting mine to shoot as good as the standard hollowpoint ogive slugs tho

 

[Vetmx]

Unless you recover the slugs, it’s kinda hard to say they expanded. I’ve shot a boatload of critters with Hybrids a lot bigger or at least more dense than a sparrow at speeds from 930-990fps in 22 and 25 caliber. Never any firearm like damage from expansion. I think you’re confused with what you’re seeing in your video. You think its slug expansion when in fact you’re dealing with slug cavitation.

 

[Vetmx]

Here’s a little bugger that if videotaped, it would have been very gory. It was shot with my Taipan shooting a wadcutter at 930fps. I know for a fact that those wadcutters don’t expand on tiny birds. The reason it got blown in half and stuck to a tree a couple feet away was the poor little guy was a victim of cavitation.

 

[LDP]

Unless you recover the slugs, it’s kinda hard to say they expanded. I’ve shot a boatload of critters with Hybrids a lot bigger or at least more dense than a sparrow at speeds from 930-990fps in 22 and 25 caliber. Never any firearm like damage from expansion. I think you’re confused with what you’re seeing in your video. You think its slug expansion when in fact you’re dealing with slug cavitation.

Exactly. Air guns even pcp shooting at 950 fps dont cause the same types of expansion and devastation a centerfire does. The damage you see is caused by a massive sized projectile compared to the size and structure of the target. Shooting a sparrow with a .25 or .30 cal pellet or slug would be the same as you taking a direct cannonball round at 50 yds. The person would be a mess after that hit not because the cannonball expanded because they just got hit with a very large object moving 950 fps. Until airguns shoot a projectile over 2,000 fps they will still kill by making a hole thru a vital organ causing the animal to bleed to death or shutting off the brain.

 

[Vetmx]

Yeah, I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything but with all the slug hype going on, I’m just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum. I hope this video isn’t on YouTube. I guess it’s a good misleading commercial for FX slugs. FX slugs, they expand when shooting cotton balls!!

 

[john8]

Vetmx, that bird is a chickadee, song bird, protected. You should invest in a bird guide or don't post pictures of your kill, ignorance is not an excuse for breaking the law.

 

[Vetmx]

I didn’t know they were protected. I don’t shoot a lot of birds unless I’m overrun with starlings. It was just this one’s unlucky day. My bad, I know now. I have a ton of them around here in the winter. I’ll have to pass this info along to my neighbors cat. It should be in jail for all its songbird infractions.

 

[Seeker]

Yeah, I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything but with all the slug hype going on, I’m just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum. I hope this video isn’t on YouTube. I guess it’s a good misleading commercial for FX slugs. FX slugs, they expand when shooting cotton balls!!

 

[qball]

Out of all the slugs Fx slugs will expand the most. That being said, I’m not sure a sparrow can expand even the FX slugs. I also had same end results on house sparrows with NSA slugs so the damage is mostly caused by sheer amount of energy on impact.

 

[Seeker]

Out of all the slugs Fx slugs will expand the most

I think Zans may be better in that matter.

 

[dhump1]

Here’s a little bugger that if videotaped, it would have been very gory. It was shot with my Taipan shooting a wadcutter at 930fps. I know for a fact that those wadcutters don’t expand on tiny birds. The reason it got blown in half and stuck to a tree a couple feet away was the poor little guy was a victim of cavitation.

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That black headed bird is a black capped chickadee. And illegal to shoot pretty much anywhere.

 

[beerthief]

you want to blow up birds just use wadcutters .

 

[Vetmx]

That black headed bird is a black capped chickadee. And illegal to shoot pretty much anywhere.

If you read the whole topic instead of being so eager to inform me of my infraction, you would see that someone pointed this out to me four months ago. I served my time in Chickadee Penitentiary and won’t shoot one again.