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14 Caliber Airgun??
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I know there air .14 firearms out there. But never heard of a airgun.
The world’s smallest production pistol is the Kolibri (German for “hummingbird”), designed by an Austrian watchmaker by the name of Franz Pfannl. About a thousand of these tiny pistols were made between about 1910 and the beginning of World War I in 1914
The Kolibri is in all ways a standard firearm, but smaller. It uses the same simple blowback mechanism as many modern .22, .25, and .32 caliber pistols, but is chambered for a proprietary (and now rare) 2.7mm centerfire cartridge. This cartridge fired a minuscule 3-grain bullet at 650 feet per second, giving it less muzzle energy than a typical airgun pellet. 2.82fpe
If you where to build a airgun your pellets would only weigh 4 grains or so.
The world’s smallest production pistol is the Kolibri (German for “hummingbird”), designed by an Austrian watchmaker by the name of Franz Pfannl. About a thousand of these tiny pistols were made between about 1910 and the beginning of World War I in 1914
The Kolibri is in all ways a standard firearm, but smaller. It uses the same simple blowback mechanism as many modern .22, .25, and .32 caliber pistols, but is chambered for a proprietary (and now rare) 2.7mm centerfire cartridge. This cartridge fired a minuscule 3-grain bullet at 650 feet per second, giving it less muzzle energy than a typical airgun pellet. 2.82fpe
If you where to build a airgun your pellets would only weigh 4 grains or so.
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While on the opposite end of my favorite spectra of firearms, i do know of the kolibri, and also remember first time seeing it in some firearm almanack in the days before the interweb.
.177 is fine enough, can be made really sound / power friendly, and can also reach far for such a little thing, and yes if i was given the chance i would step up to .22 or even larger.
But that is not going to happen with my benovolent rulers, and here i am phrasing myself carefully as otherwise, well them be Putin crazy no matter the side of the political spectrum.
.177 is fine enough, can be made really sound / power friendly, and can also reach far for such a little thing, and yes if i was given the chance i would step up to .22 or even larger.
But that is not going to happen with my benovolent rulers, and here i am phrasing myself carefully as otherwise, well them be Putin crazy no matter the side of the political spectrum.
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How about 12 cal.?
Other smallbore airgun calibers | Blog | Pyramyd AIR
by Tom Gaylord Writing as B.B. Pelletier A history of airguns This report covers: Smallbore calibers Confusing lines Other calibers .12 caliber .175 caliber .180 caliber .21 caliber .21-1/2 caliber A couple really odd sizes Summary Before we begin, I am leaving for Las Vegas and the 2016 SHOT...
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I have a couple of .21 caliber pumpers.How about 12 cal.?
Other smallbore airgun calibers | Blog | Pyramyd AIR
by Tom Gaylord Writing as B.B. Pelletier A history of airguns This report covers: Smallbore calibers Confusing lines Other calibers .12 caliber .175 caliber .180 caliber .21 caliber .21-1/2 caliber A couple really odd sizes Summary Before we begin, I am leaving for Las Vegas and the 2016 SHOT...www.pyramydair.com
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Good idea. Then 12 ft lb field target shooters could have pellets with the BC of the JSB monster.
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Why settle for a .14 or even a .12 cal when the least powerful air pistol ever made is readily available: the Daisy 118 Targeteer, cal .118 !!!!!!!!
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When I was a kid I had a toy gun that shot a toroidal vortex that would blow out candles at about 20 feet. I guess the caliber to be about .0
Jim
Jim
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You know I do have a 14 caliber barrel i bought for a possible varmint PB build...but it's an 8-twist. Too fast for a 6ish gr. pellet? Really starting to think about this now--I mean why not? Wouldn't it be really cool if it worked? I've recently retired...and sometimes I think I need something else to do.
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I have a RWS 6M pistol which is a spring piston, break barrel pseudo target gun. It is Giss system and you do not ever want to dry fire it. One day, feeding it Gamo WC "match" pellets, I heard the pellet hit the floor. It had dropped clean thru the barrel! It was a perfectly formed diablo wadcutter of .14 cal. Somebody must have been looking toward a .14 cal and mixed a pellet into the wrong tin.
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