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I have been watching Jessica's video's too over the last couple of months and in a recent one she gave her background and related area of study at LSU. She is very educated on the plants and wildlife of Florida and acts very professionally doing her job. I too have had some concerns about some shots she takes but more when she was cocking the Brocock bolt with the muzzle pointed down but then swinging it up across the front of houses to take the shot. I hope she can find an easier cocking rifle for her needs and then cocks it while pointing upwards when taking shots in trees or on roofs. I will say in regards to taking upward angle shots if the pellet can travel its full arc before hitting the ground it will have very little energy left. Using a figure of my low power 13 fpe tuned rifle and using the Chairgun and Strelok app. shooting at the optimum angle of between 20 and 45 degrees my 15.89 grain Hades pellet will have around .5 fpe when it hits the ground. Of course the idea is to never take an risky shot. Bill
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Wait...wut?

You think it's better to cock a gun pointed skyward than at the ground? If the bolt is hard for her to work, it seems safer to struggle with it pointed at the dirt 5 feet in front of you than your aim wobbling all over, pointed at who knows what in the sky/horizon.
 
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I have been watching Jessica's video's too over the last couple of months and in a recent one she gave her background and related area of study at LSU. She is very educated on the plants and wildlife of Florida and acts very professionally doing her job. I too have had some concerns about some shots she takes but more when she was cocking the Brocock bolt with the muzzle pointed down but then swinging it up across the front of houses to take the shot. I hope she can find an easier cocking rifle for her needs and then cocks it while pointing upwards when taking shots in trees or on roofs. I will say in regards to taking upward angle shots if the pellet can travel its full arc before hitting the ground it will have very little energy left. Using a figure of my low power 13 fpe tuned rifle and using the Chairgun and Strelok app. shooting at the optimum angle of between 20 and 45 degrees my 15.89 grain Hades pellet will have around .5 fpe when it hits the ground. Of course the idea is to never take an risky shot. Bill
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Wait...wut?

You think it's better to cock a gun pointed skyward than at the ground? If the bolt is hard for her to work, it seems safer to struggle with it pointed at the dirt 5 feet in front of you than your aim wobbling all over, pointed at who knows what in the sky/horizon.
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Have you watched her videos to see how she after cocking her rifle to shoot iguanas on a roof top or high in a tree she swings the muzzle past all kinds things like building windows and cars in the background. As the rule says never point your rifle at anything you do not intend to shoot. Also knowing that fact that many shooters do not keep their finger out of the trigger guard before lining up are the target is another risk factor of keeping your muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Bill
 
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The angle can be as flat as 10 to 12 degrees (if it is a pellet -- a slug will have much higher impact velocities than a pellet due to the high BC).



To penetrate skin research found it took 2.2FPE (246fps) at impact for a .22cal pellet to penetrate human skin (16.5gr).

And 2.2FPE (331fps) for a .177cal pellet to penetrate.

Source: http://ssf1910.dk/document/info/balistik.pdf



To penetrate an eye -- probability of hitting one is about as likely as hitting the jackpot in the lottery --

A BB needed 246fps (0.7FPE) average velocity and energy to penetrate.
Note that a .22 has about 50% more impact area, therefore it will need signifiant more energy than then BB to penetrate.

Source: Wound Ballistics Review, 3(1), 10-12: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_PmkwLd1hmbd3pWYVVJeGlGaFE



Matthias
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Granted we want to error on the side of safety. My point being if she keeps her skyward shots to the higher angles the amount of energy left is minimal. Since I have moved to shooting slugs at times at pests on top of silos and other high angles I always check the angles with an inclinometer and check on google maps for any structures in the potential range of the projectile. As your statistics state a .22 cal. pellet weighing 16.5 grains would need 2.2 foot pounds to penetrate skin. My point being if she is cautious and either has a good background to catch her 14.3 grain Crosman HP pellets which don't have the best b.c. or keeps the skyward shots at an higher angle which would keep the downward angle fall of the pellet more steep the risk I think people are voicing is less than you would think at less than .5 fpe. Bill
 
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I'm surprised that she is allowed to shoot in the city limits, even if she has a license.
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I'm surprised that she is allowed to shoot in the city limits, even if she has a license.
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It's Florida . . . a lot of strange things go on over there.
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Thus spake the gentle folk from the state which gave us Pelosi, Schiff, Maxine, and Kamala ...

It is not strange for people ALL OVER THE WORLD to be allowed to remove pest species within city limits with air rifles. They are the PREFERRED method of pest eradication in many places where POISONS and/or traps are too indiscriminate.

This whole discussion smacks of the sort of "second guessing" and "arm chair quarter backing" which leads to enormous forest fires because nobody wants to do controlled burns, windmills freezing up in Texas and taking the grid down, and dams not being built because of some species of gnat (that carries Malaria) and lives only in a three acre patch of some swampy backwater in BF Africa.

Maybe if the ONLY experience you have with projectile weapons is making holes in paper you should refrain from spouting off about what might happen if Senator dipstick from Idaho hears about some woman in Miami killing an INVASIVE species within the city limits with her BB GUN.

Gawd I hate these threads... all hand wringing and whining, pretend concerns and "what ifs"...

Oh well... Have at it.
 
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Iguana Girl reading this thread
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Iguana Adventures is an awesome channel! Watching the way Jessica gets after it(chasing, grabbing, climbing trees/buildings, and off-hand head shooting those iguanas) is addictive as hell. You never know what she's gonna do next. Well, ya kinda do- she ain't stoppin til she has it in her hand and says "Gotchu iguana!" Maybe on her Iguana Sniper videos she should say "Shot chu, iguana!"😝

I think she is planning on upgrading her Brocock to an XR(side cocking lever) model pretty soon. AoA needs to hook her up.

And I love how most of the people are soooo happy to see her getting rid of those damn iguanas that are everywhere down there. Plus she usually throws in a little show-and-tell when she runs across interesting flora or fauna.

It's kinda filmed like an episode of "Cops". 🎶Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do... 
 
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A Russian guy told me that the reason that bullpups like EDgun are popular in Russia is that people carry them around in their cars and take out pests from their car. He might pull up to a stop light and notice a crow in a tree. He can just grab the bullpup and take it out on the spot. Most people know what's going on and they don't mind. A large percentage of Russians raise gardens and taking out crows, rabbits and feral cats, etc., is not frowned upon. Of course, in the big cities like Moscow this would not be happening, but he said that in smaller towns it was quite common. I shot my air rifle in town all the time where I grew up in a small Arkansas town. Even here in Montana not common to see teenage boys around town with air rifles.

The most common invasive species we have in Montana right now is a west coastal variety of the bipedal sort. Many of them can be baited with marijuana. Far more numerous and problematic than grey aliens, sasquatch and such. Most numerous in areas such as Boze Angeles and Calispell. One of their most obnoxious habits is to try to deny access to public lands for their own private use. Several of them recently invaded a famous fly fishing stream area and tried to get the Montana stream access law changed to where public access was denied even when floating the stream so that they had sole access. They have a chameleon like ability to imitate a Human some of the time.

When I was a kid I took out pests at the range Iguana Gal is shooting with a pump up Benjamin .22, and I used open sights. No need for a scope at the close distances she shoots (unless you have bad eyesight like I do now). Her scope is mounted way high and causes much more parallax error than my Bemjamin .22 had. The blackbirds I shot were smaller than her iguanas, except for the smallestiguanas, and the little snapping turtles I shot in the head were even smaller targets than that. The Benjamin .22 did just fine. She sights in at 20 yards, and I sight in my Lonestar .25 at 60 yards with JSB Exact King. She ought to come up here to Montana and I'll put her onto some PD towns and she can get some long range practice.....and learn how to read the wind and heat distortion, which is of almost no effect at the distances she shoots. I have to scan with at least my scope set at 6X or use 10X binoculars just to spot many of my targets. For guys who go after PD's, this iguana shooting isn't exactly fancy shooting. It's a known fact that many of the most successful long range big game hunters do their off season practice at PD towns, because if you can hit a PD at distance, you are in the Kill Zone of a big game animal. Leaves in the trees are the main problem with shooting iguanas from what I see in the video. However, the iguanas feel safe with all that foliage around them and you can stalk close. The wide open nature of PD towns means that anything under 50 yards is very close. It would be a kill every time if I could get as close to PD's as she does to iguanas.
























 
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What kind a air rifle is she shooting. I thought is was A Brocock PCP, but I see her pumping the lever under the barrel a number of times.
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She is shooting a Brocock Concept Lite. She isn't pumping it but cocking it. She takes it off her shoulder and down to about belly height to do so. Not sure what rifle she was using back in the very beginning though. I saw a few where she used a different rifle before she got the Brocock.
 
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