ZAN, thank you for serving US airgunners during the pellet drought!
You are a great option for JSB pellets: With a large enough order the international shipping costs are reduced, and I keep hearing that you deliver very quickly.
Tip: To help airgunners order from you,
maybe post a weight-to-shipping-cost table on your website. Something like this:
Weight | Cost up to 1.3lbs $15.50
up to 2.0lbs $28.30
up to 5.5lbs $35.00
up to 12.8lbs $42.40
That way we can calculate how many pellets we can order without going over the weight limit for the next higher shipping price.
Very impressive photo of the slug expansion in clay. Looks cool!
What most of us are concerned, of course, is with
hollowpoint slug expansion in FLESH (and the resulting permanent wound cavity, the latter being
very difficult to measure, as flesh/gel is elastic and
behaves totally different from clay).
Since most of us are lacking the desire to mess with bloody cadavers, a close equivalent would be to
measure the expansion in flesh-like material — like BALLISTIC GEL 10%. (Because clay is much more dense than flesh, it results in huge HP expansions and "wound cavities" that will be much much better than in real flesh/ ballistic gel.)
If your testing provided shooters with a list of minimum impact velocities off different slugs at which they will still expand significantly —
that would be totally awesome!! Something like this (yeah, I
like tables, thanks for asking):
ZAN slug .22cal, 33gr
Impact Velocity | Expanded Diameter 733fps 0.231"
752fps 0.260"
812fps 0.375"
905fps 0.388"
945fps 0.404"
Here are some examples of actual slug expansion tests, with all the data that would interest a shooter:
https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/%f0%9f%94%b4-slugs-testing-how-much-they-expand-and-how-far-they-penetrate/#post-749008 Keep up the good work, ZAN!
Matthias
