Pellet Guns
KingKozmik
New Arrival
would a pellet gun like say, this one: http://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Outdoor-Products-Rifle-Scope/dp/B001BS3YQM be powerful enough to take out a street lights, security cameras, tail lights, car windows/other types?
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You been on the jenkum marra? A break barrel will not mean the pellet travels faster, far from it. Its the power of the spring in the break barrel that will determine the speed of the pellet. With the Daisy above, you are going to be getting 750 feet per second, with a 9 grain pellet that works out at 11.24 ft/lb of power. I have had low end break barrels only delivering 7ft/lb. On top of that, a break barrel needs to be very well engineered for a barrel to breech seal to be good, a $40 break barrel will be pants. While it would be quicker to reload, it would be heavier probably not as well put together. With the daisy, you can use BB's in it of you want, but I would stick with pellets.
The daisy would respond better to sound moderation than a break barrel, if he chose to go down that route; as it does not have parts with significant mass that need to move when the trigger is pulled.
W/R to will it do this or that, it will have the physical power to do it, but with such a cheap gun, I doubt it would have the accuracy. Take out a tail light on a car? Not happening unless you have a US$1000 air rifle - tail lights have 3-5 light bulbs in them and you would need a gun that would destroy the light housing to the point all of the bulbs were damaged. Same with a camera, you would have to shoot through the lense to be sure it was destroyed - to shoot through the lense you would have to stand in front of it, in which case you would have been caught on camera.
If I was looking to smash stuff like that, I would use a slingshot.
Just my input - I've never had a successful crack of a streetlamp with a 6/7ft lb air rifle. If anything, I'd go for a bit more powerful. However you do realise that shooting within 50ft of a road/footpath is illegal in the UK (not sure about the USA) and can get you raped by the armed response team. Seen it happen to some jebend who shot me in the ankle from their bedroom window.
Pump up rifles tend to be a bit sub-par when it comes to longevity. Weirauch is a very good brand. Had mine for 10 years and still going strong. Cost me £75 for a 7ft/lb one. Got it when I was 11.
However, dr rocker has some damn valid points.
get one with a tank the needs to be filled with a dive bottle. from what I hear they are pretty good.
or this 50cal air rifle, if you fancy some big game hunting too.
you know a compund bow would do everything you want and more. ammo is expensive though
I would also expect the accuracy would not be that great unless it is rifled.
Dieseling can add power but you will lose accuarcy as the piston, spring and rifling are designed to handle XYZ force - when you go up or down un power but with the same internals, accuaracy is effected and in the long term, damage to the piston and psring guide. You can get away with a little bit of it of it tho, however, I would hazerd a guess you are only going to see a 10% increase in FPS and you could never measure the input of a light oil into the rifle to be consistant about the power that would be put out and hence the accuarcy.
http://www.airforceairguns.com/AirForce-Airguns-TalonP-PreCharged-Pneumatic-Air-Pistol-s/69.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T77GqB4imU
Oh and Dj, thanks for critiquing all of my posts
Not very well. Tried it.
It takes a lot of accuracy, and every missed shot is going to fly off and make a bunch of noise. Plus you're going to be standing directly under a fucking street light for however long with a slingshot, looking like a fucktard.
If you want to take out a street light, you can use a bright laser pointer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNeNFz3A-M
as far as accuracy goes, practise is the only fix.
Not really.
http://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/index.php?cPath=23
You will have a similar BB supplier in NZ. I used to buy the ammo for my catapult at shops that sold it branded as such. Then I found out it was much cheaper to buy similar weight ball bearings.
Edit: I use from 3 grammes to 14 grammes.
those 14mm ones would do some serious damage!!