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Shooing a rifle at 45 degrees

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    #62
    IRLConor
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    Citizen_Erased wrote: »
    i just want to put in that a standard hollow point subsonic .22lr shot at about 20 yards at a pigeon's body does not have sufficient momentum to pierce and in most cases even dent corregated tin

    Unless hollow points perform vastly differently to the solid round nose target rounds I'm pretty sure you're wrong. A subsonic target round will easily penetrate multiple inches of wood at 25 yards, corrugated metal should be easy enough (unless it's particularly thick). Depending on the angle it strikes the metal it might not pierce it but it will sure as hell dent it.


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    #63
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Hollow points should impart more projectile energy, no? As it deforms?


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    #64
    Sparks
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    IRLConor wrote: »
    Unless hollow points perform vastly differently to the solid round nose target rounds I'm pretty sure you're wrong. A subsonic target round will easily penetrate multiple inches of wood at 25 yards, corrugated metal should be easy enough (unless it's particularly thick). Depending on the angle it strikes the metal it might not pierce it but it will sure as hell dent it.
    He's exceptionally wrong. At 25 yards, the only pigeon whose chest won't be penetrated by a .22lr round is the one wearing kevlar...


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