Ricochet shots

From USA, 828 posts

Remember......

rule 1- threaten his very life
rule 2-threaten to call the authorities
rule 3-threaten to "accidentally" break his shoddy air rifle.
rule 4-run downrange, grab and eat the candy as fast as you can(being sure not to swallow any lead), then haul ask outta there.


(tongue in cheek)-j/k

From West Wales, 2445 posts

breaking the gun would be easy. just firing it made me think it was going to break up the internals semed to jangle quite abit

From Sydney, Australia, 1679 posts

I reckon after you cokced the barrel you could just keep pulling down you could pull the barrel off!

From West Wales, 2445 posts

good idea remove the barel put a pellet in and blow with your mouth.

in Britain you would need an FAC though

From USA, 828 posts

U could bring some oil in an eye dropper and intentionally diesel the HECK out of his air rifle untill it breaks.
I've been experimenting with a few "tracer pellets" of my own design at home for the past few nights.
I actually got it to work!!!! A few probs:
Not cost efficient
not time efficient
not efficient to do in .177 caliber
hard to duplicate the same results twice
major pellet modification required
actual result is not NEARLY as cool as you would think
kinda a waste of time.
If I had to try it again, I would use a .22 cal air rifle(which I do not own)
with the Beeman Crow Mags(HUGE hollow point cavity is perfect for cramming in the additives)

From Sydney, Australia, 1679 posts

Originally posted by theshootist on 7 Mar 2008 2:44 PM
U could bring some oil in an eye dropper and intentionally diesel the HECK out of his air rifle untill it breaks.
I've been experimenting with a few "tracer pellets" of my own design at home for the past few nights.
I actually got it to work!!!! A few probs:
Not cost efficient
not time efficient
not efficient to do in .177 caliber
hard to duplicate the same results twice
major pellet modification required
actual result is not NEARLY as cool as you would think
kinda a waste of time.
If I had to try it again, I would use a .22 cal air rifle(which I do not own)
with the Beeman Crow Mags(HUGE hollow point cavity is perfect for cramming in the additives)

Could you gives us an idea of what your putting in that hole?

From Sydney, Australia, 1679 posts

Originally posted by aim2please on 8 Mar 2008 1:19 AM
Originally posted by theshootist on 7 Mar 2008 2:44 PM
U could bring some oil in an eye dropper and intentionally diesel the HECK out of his air rifle untill it breaks.
I've been experimenting with a few "tracer pellets" of my own design at home for the past few nights.
I actually got it to work!!!! A few probs:
Not cost efficient
not time efficient
not efficient to do in .177 caliber
hard to duplicate the same results twice
major pellet modification required
actual result is not NEARLY as cool as you would think
kinda a waste of time.
If I had to try it again, I would use a .22 cal air rifle(which I do not own)
with the Beeman Crow Mags(HUGE hollow point cavity is perfect for cramming in the additives)

Could you gives us an idea of what your putting in that hole?

Wooops there ment to be a smiley face

From USA, 828 posts

well, for the tracers I used red phoshorous.
I had to drill out the .177 crossman premier hollow point because it was way too small.
I also experimented with cap gun caps and paper caps strips(wear safety goggles, they do pop in your face accidentally)
Also, crushed up some match heads, but since they were not "strike anywhere"-impossible to find anymore, they did not have the deisred effect.
I then removed the head of a .22lr shell and used some of the powder, but i need to find a way of incorporating the powder into the .177 shell with a primer that will work-the caps.
I tried using warm wax to seal it up with little result.
The .177's are not large enough to accomodate the snap caps. Need to use Beeman Crow mags in .22 cal.
DO NOT PLACE THE INGREDIENTS IN THE SKIRT! ONLY IN THE HOLLOW POINT CAVITY

From West Wales, 2445 posts

just to remind you not all of us (me) usually try what the post says without reading the whole thing.

its best to put the warning at the start...well im off to get a new face as the old one blew off

From Mankato, MN, 4129 posts

Try filling the skirt and shooting the pellet backwards....old timers used to do that before well made hollow points became available. Now they stressed that it seemed like it didn't harm the air gun, but also warned that it may not be the best thing for it either.