What's the lowest FPS

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

Flies with a Bug-A-Salt . . . works great. It shoots salt at an unknown speed as my Chrony won't pick it up, but it ain't much. I've "patterned" it on aluminum foil at about a foot and it won't shoot through it . . .

I got 3 of those and love them. Heck, killed a tarantula that got in the house with 10 shots at point blank.

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

I got 3 of those and love them. Heck, killed a tarantula that got in the house with 10 shots at point blank.

He died from dehydration at that point!

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

He died from dehydration at that point!

They pack enough @ 1" especially in the face. Any further, you would just be seasoning the SOB.

 

[Ignoto]

Sparrows need a minimum of 120 fpe with a 357 polymag.

I would use a 2ton truck at full speed just to be safe.

 

[IguanaPolice]

My son uses the bug assault to season the cherry tomatoes that we grow. Quite funny

 

[Bedrock Bob]

My HW95 .22 has a broken factory spring and shoots 550 fps. I took this hog with it last night...

 

[nervoustrig]

Just goes to show that shot placement is everything. A Crosman Premiere Hollow Point delivered to the lower abdomen folds 'em up like a cheap suit.

 

[cavedweller]

A 6.6gr plastic BB passed through my skin at 255fps when i forgot to get the finger out of the chrony´s dangerous end at an airsoft match.. blood was involved..

 

[JungleShooter]

What's the lowest FPS you've ever used while clearing out pests?

➠ Well, the lowest velocity was 64fps. ​

The quarry was a feather-weight: a feral pigeon.

However, the projectile was quite heavy:
27,006,440 gr
(in pounds that's 3,358 lbs)


This resulted in a rather large impact energy:
a quarter of a million foot-pounds
(I calculated it at 245,580 FPE)


The projectile meplat was wadcutter-blunt, and sized XXXL (add a few more X's if you like):
55" x 23"


Matthias





PS:
Projectile brand and type:
Audi A4 sedan




PPS: There was no ice-picking or pass-through. "All the energy was "dumped" — to use a common phrase of some people here.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

➠ Well, the lowest velocity was 64fps. ​

The quarry was a feather-weight: a feral pigeon.

However, the projectile was quite heavy:
27,006,440 gr
(in pounds that's 3,358 lbs)


This resulted in a rather large impact energy:
a quarter of a million foot-pounds
(I calculated it at 245,580 FPE)


The projectile meplat was wadcutter-blunt, and sized XXXL (add a few more X's if you like):
55" x 23"


Matthias





PS:
Projectile brand and type:
Audi A4 sedan




PPS: There was no ice-picking or pass-through. "All the energy was "dumped" — to use a common phrase of some people here.

How much expansion did you get on the Audi? Was mass retention good?

 

[JungleShooter]

How much expansion did you get on the Audi? Was mass retention good?

Yeah, Bob, that's where my obsession with precision, numbers, and the scientific method took a hit:
➧ I didn't find a caliper large enough to measure the expanded nose of the Audi (grille and fender)!

Matthias

 

[WD]

Yeah, Bob, that's where my obsession with precision, numbers, and the scientific method took a hit:
➧ I didn't find a caliper large enough to measure the expanded nose of the Audi (grille and fender)!

Matthias

 

[WD]

I have killed spiders with a crosman 2240 and no pellet at all. No idea of the co2 velocity.