This should (hopefully) be a fun question for the group:
If you could shoot a lead Diabolo pellet at 1400FPS, what would be the factors that would cause it to destabilize?
- Would the blast of air required to get it to that velocity deform the skirt against the barrel?
- Would the "dirty air" coming out behind the pellet flip it over?
- Would the rifeling be too fast regardless such that the pellet wouldn't spin, but just get torn up on the way down the barrel?
- Would a smooth-twist barrel fix that issue?
- Badger5th suspects that the head of the pellet may get blown off and leave the skirt in the breech
- Would the increased barrel-whip be the nail-in-the-coffin?
- The BC would be jacked up and cause the pellet to get into trans-sonic soon after firing (Scotchmo's contribution and "hurrumphed" by others)
- Increased Gyroscopic Effect if the pellet engages the rifeling (Dizzums contribution)
- What am I missing?
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