Thread: Springer Airguns & Pigs

10.cm penetration into the chest cavity sounds to me like they used piglets "thru the wall & into some organs". Slightly hyped or out of context but still a very valid concern I think.
When I was at school I had some mates that would go out with full face helmets and have war games, shooting each other. Back then the springers were very low power and wouldn't even penetrate both sides of a coke can at a few metres, But I was still too chicken/smart to join in that game.

Ok the Poms probably have done it right.
In the Uk air rifles are way more popular & always have been, basically the only opportunity Joe Blogs has to shoot; with many competitive popular events Field Trophy etc. They have limited their air guns to 12 foot pounds without a license, which is pretty much where accuracy is premium, they blow me away hunting, shooting bunnies at 50 meters, you have to be able to hit a 20 cent piece to achieve that. Not sure? but I think you are allow a PCP also as long as its 12 ftp or less & PCP have awesome accuracy.

The air rifle I used as a kid BSA mercury only put out 6 -7 ftps & we always wanted more, the springers of today can achieve 20 ftps but more often than not accuracy is rubbish. Springers require a lot of skill to shoot well, at 20ftps they destroy scopes, which is great for sales. The air rifles they are selling are also rubbish unless you spend to $, sign of the times I guess sales/sales/sales.
Well theirs my 20 cents worth

I wonder what the injury and death statistics are like for children involved in Equestrian events? Probably stratospheric in comparison to how many serious injuries caused by the hundreds of thousands of air rifles in New Zealand over the last 150 years.

As shooters we really need to push for tighter restrictions on Horses.

Good God!

NZHIS data indicated that as a result of horse-related injuries 5613 people were hospitalised between 1993 and 2001 and there were 16 fatalities between 1993 and 1999. Horse-related injuries were most prevalent in young females aged 10 to 19 years. Among Maori (the indigenous people of New Zealand), men predominated in horse-related injury numbers. Overall, half of equestrian injuries occurred in those under the age of 19 years.

Chris Cahill! The children need you!

8 years and 16 fatalities,either we need to reduce the number of horses in private hands or drastically restrict access to them. Who needs a Horse anyhow?

https://madbarn.com/research/equestr...nd-experience/

The test data isn't free, and I'm not going to pay for it.

they fired a .22-callibre spring-loaded airgun into the left-hand chest walls of the "porcine cadavers"

Out of 10 shots, six would have been lethal or potentially lethal, with nine of them penetrating the chest wall to an average of 10.6cm.

these contemporary weapons are very much able to cause a lethal injury at five or 10 metres

The article is meaningless.

I ate 10 biscuits, six would have been lethal or potentially lethal, with nine of them easily capable of blocking an airway (one missed my mouth).

Originally Posted by norsk

8 years and 16 fatalities,either we need to reduce the number of horses in private hands or drastically restrict access to them. Who needs a Horse anyhow?

Mate you don't want to take on that community, NZ horse chicks are among the craziest in the world.

Originally Posted by vulcannz

Mate you don't want to take on that community, NZ horse chicks are among the craziest in the world.

I would rather take on a Horse girl than share a bed with Mark Todd

Originally Posted by norsk

I would rather take on a Horse girl than share a bed with Mark Todd

Obviously not.
Or he would realise anvils are harmless. Roadrunner never got hurt by an anvil. Not once.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Obviously not.
Or he would realise anvils are harmless. Roadrunner never got hurt by an anvil. Not once.

Linked to wrong post. Meant to be no good names post regarding roadrunner.

Originally Posted by norsk

Good God!

NZHIS data indicated that as a result of horse-related injuries 5613 people were hospitalised between 1993 and 2001 and there were 16 fatalities between 1993 and 1999. Horse-related injuries were most prevalent in young females aged 10 to 19 years. Among Maori (the indigenous people of New Zealand), men predominated in horse-related injury numbers. Overall, half of equestrian injuries occurred in those under the age of 19 years.

Chris Cahill! The children need you!

8 years and 16 fatalities,either we need to reduce the number of horses in private hands or drastically restrict access to them. Who needs a Horse anyhow?

https://madbarn.com/research/equestr...nd-experience/

Assault Horse ?

Just wait until they get a load of Airsoft....those guys go out and delibrately shot each other with airguns.....And while some are plastic BB a lot are air guns that fire lead pellets/balls.....

Mind you they are probably trying to justify their jobs as reporters (not the doctors) so they dont get downsized with the reat of them when attention moves for TV to other media.......(Too soon????)

Some one on here should get them on a pig hunt with them, bail a shitty boar, and get them close with air rifle, then call the dogs off. One in the eye should slow it up!

Carhill needs a meeting with Mr Ed

once met a bird with huge gnashers.she could eat apples through a tennis racket and her employment -test keyboard at the steinway factory

Black & Decker, Pecker Wrecker ?