Best spring powered .22 FAC air rifle

[Mike Hill]

We used to actually shoot at stones in worked fields with our 22s as kids to make them ricochet. This was back home in pretty huge fields.

 

You could see the puff of dust where the bullet came back to earth.Once we put an empty drench container behind a flat stone and the bullet only made it through one side this was with standard velocity Winchester PowerPoint

 

.A bullet needs about 450fps to break human skin,a subsonic .22 travels at 1050 fps at the muzzle ,once it expends say 30% of its energy upon impact and now that its tumbling i dont think it would be considered dangerous after 50 odd meters from impact.

 

All of this is aside from the fact you shouldn't shoot at anything with something or someone behind it.

[AHPP]

20 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

 

 

.A bullet needs about 450fps to break human skin,a subsonic .22 travels at 1050 fps at the muzzle ,once it expends say 30% of its energy upon impact and now that its tumbling i dont think it would be considered dangerous after 50 odd meters from impact.

A bloke on youtube wrapped some meat in jeans, t-shirts etc to see how lethal a .22LR was at different ranges. Would be interesting to test your 50 odd meters hypothesis like that. Hitting the target with the ricochet would be the tricky bit unless you used a massive curtain instead of a lump of meat. I reckon a tumbling 40 grain .22 would go through a lorry curtain at 50 odd meters.

[Mark J]

I've had a webley eclipse Mk2 for a while. Ticks the boxes.

[Mike Hill]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

A bloke on youtube wrapped some meat in jeans, t-shirts etc to see how lethal a .22LR was at different ranges. Would be interesting to test your 50 odd meters hypothesis like that. Hitting the target with the ricochet would be the tricky bit unless you used a massive curtain instead of a lump of meat. I reckon a tumbling 40 grain .22 would go through a lorry curtain at 50 odd meters.

I do know that it takes chainsaw trousers to be folded five times to stop a .22 and if you roll the legs up and shoot across the layers it will stop 9x19.

 

You could set up a Doppler  chronograph at the target to measure the velocity after impact.That would give you some idea if you could measure the distance the bullet travelled after impact 

[pie eater pete]

Another vote for Air Arms Tx200...few years back from rest i could comfortably hit 50p size targets at 40 yards..ridiculous accuracy but if you favour FAC i wouldopt for a Theoben or a Air Arms 410...estate i live on has a serious squirrel problem so may need to dust off the Tx?

[Stubby]

If going FAC I like the Daystate Huntsman Regal . Daystate Sovereign pellets suit it . 

Edited November 19, 2019 by Stubby

[youngsbury]

I used to have ( still own ) a bsa superstar in 22 I put a 177 theoben gas ram in it went up to 19 odd lbs [emoji2958] but couldn’t hit a thing with it ! what a recoil . Now got a bsa R10 .22 fac around 22-23lb what a gun ! Super accurate.

[difflock]

No body rates the RWS Diana? 

Oddly I phoned round a few local RFD's today, and despite all of them bumming and blowing about the (sometimes fallacious, as in contrary to manufacturers stated FAC power levels)

power of the air rifles they were offering, so when I said;

"Well I presume you have a chronograph and pellets of a known weight so I can verify your assertions about the ft lbs".

None of them own a chronograph, apparently.

How expensive is a Chronograph again?

I will check Ebay.

Dealers, Huh!

Marcus

Edited November 19, 2019 by difflock

[youngsbury]

JSB jumbo exact in 5.52 suit bsa barrels very well 

[Peasgood]

On 17/11/2019 at 09:18, difflock said:

belated 60th birthday present to myself if you like

Mine was a present to myself for my 50th.