Quote from: gitano on May 03, 2024, 06:10:27 AMI have the exact same wish and hesitancy.Now Sir, I won't have you bad mouthing our great nation. You'll steal my thunder...
The FPE restriction, while stupid and egregious, at least "makes sense", in the context of the British authority's restricting firearms. To illustrate what I mean, our "shotgun only" hunting states are equally illogical. You can't use a "rifle" to hunt with, but you CAN use a shotgun, with a slug, from a shotgun WITH A FULLY RIFLED BARREL that will cast that projectile at least 300 yd. If people in GB were allowed to use UNLICENSED pneumatic firearms of ANY FPE, then they would make them powerful enough to kill people. GB citizens CAN possess pneumatic arms with FPEs greater than 12, BUT, they have to be included on the owner's LICENSE.
I have always thought a .25 caliber PCP would be a great gun to have 'around'.
Paul
Quote from: Jamie.270 on May 03, 2024, 05:30:45 AMHa, I moan about this all the time, but yesterday I found out something new...Quote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:43:16 AMToo bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
Paul
I'd like to have a .25 cal PCP myself. something that will push a lead pellet to 700-900 FPS.
But I struggle with justifying the cost of the compressor.
Quote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:33:04 AMWhat I don't know about air rifles would fill volumes. Yet here I am commenting. All I can add is my experience with centerfire ammo.
Bullets for the .44 Rem Mag come in two diameters: 0.429", and 0.430". The 0.429" bullets shoot "patterns" from my revolvers, the .430s shoot groups.
Soviet-made rifles have bores that range in diameter from 0.306" to 0.314". The larger the bore, the crappier they shoot. Small-bored rifles get .308 bullets, large-bored rifles get .311 bullets. I had a brand new Soviet M44 that couldn't keep all of its shots on a 4-FOOT X 3-FOOT piece of sheetrock at 40 paces!
From what I've read, skirt diameter on pellets is critical to precision. That said, 0.01mm is 0.00039". While "stranger things have happened", it would certainly surprise me that that would make a SIGNIFICANT difference in precision. On the other hand, if it didn't, why would 'they' make the two sizes? Personally, I'd expect the bigger ones to shoot straighter, BUT, I'd shoot the ones that ACTUALLY shot the straightest. (Duh).
Paul
PS - Regarding pellet resizers: To make 'em bigger, seems like a cone one could push into the skirt to 'over' enlarge it, followed by pushing the pellet through the 'tube' of desired size, would be a method for "sizing up".
Paul
PPS - Kinda wish I had an excuse to get a nice Pre-charged pneumatic rifle like one of those.
Paul