PCP Or Crossbow? Different Slow Motion Video

Here's another video about this crossbow:

Wow...that's pretty cool! Really put the smack-down on those game birds.

No way those are all game birds. What part of the world do you live in that is quite the diversity I bet it is a great place to hunt. 

Night crown black herons really?what's next videos of Bald eagles being shot?

Guess I just found out where I draw the line.
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Yeah. Great video! But it kind of seems like you were just shooting anything in sight 

awesome slow motion video. Unbelievable that you filmed that with a cell phone! 

Where do they sell those crossbows I can't seem to find a dealer or even a price. I am interested if the accuracy with steel balls is as good as it seems. 

"PaulWI"Night crown black herons really?what's next videos of Bald eagles being shot?

Guess I just found out where I draw the line.
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I concure.

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This video reminds me of Ted's " Can birds see bullets" while your watching the ball fly through the air most of the birds try to fly before the ball even gets there. The ball is bigger and probably moving a little slower than a pellet but I wonder if its like a flinching reaction kind of like if something is going to land in your eye but then you just automatically blink I wonder if it could be the same for birds except they try and fly away. Just a thought.
Leo

I'm sure that these pellets are not supersonic. The speed of sound is about 1100fps if I remember correctly. My Marauder isn't shooting supersonic. So it isn't unreasonable to expect that the birds hear, and react to, the twang of the crossbow/slingshot a fraction of a second before the ball impacts. 

I found another video about this crossbow (actually, this video appears to show the Mk-I not the Mk-II):

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So are you saying that you think the birds hear the bullet wizzing through the air or they hear the crossbow? And even if they did hear it why wouldn't the group of birds fly all at the same time instead of the one being shot at flying first? take fore example shot taken on 2:27 in the video, the one being shot at started to fly before the ball even got there while the other one just sat there. Do you think the bird that wasn't being shot at just couldn't hear it coming? Or maybe he didn't have any reason to fly because he didn't see anything coming. I don't know just a theory it's pretty interesting to watch though.
Leo

Really interesting observation KYAirgunner. I hadn't noticed that, but you're right. It is strange that the other birds don't react the same as the one being targeted. I'd guess that visual stimuli plays at least some part in the reaction. There are some interesting studies that measure reaction times, particularly relating to cops in a fight/flight situation. Studies have shown that the brain short-circuits the conscious response to certain stimuli cutting conscious thought out of the process entirely. In other words, a cop's brain may perceive a situation as dangerous and any sudden movement triggers the, er, em, trigger, so to speak. Before he/she has a chance to even formulate a conscious response the reaction has already been carried out. In other words, politicians pass laws and have expectations for cops that, in many instances, they are physically incapable of complying with. No amount of training will prevent the reaction. The wiring of the brain has a hard-coded emergency response plan. You see the same thing with some of the hunting videos we all love. I think it was Plinker who 'shot' a squirrel with air by accident and got a dramatic response that looked like a scene from a Scooby Doo cartoon. The squirrel jumped and flailed and was running 20 MPH in the air before he even touched the ground. His hard-wired response is 'be ANYWHERE but here as quickly as possible." In that instance though, he was responding entirely to sound only as there was no projectile. This would certainly make for an interesting, but sadistic, study.

Crikey, most of those birds aren't pests. Starlings, European house sparrows, and feral pigeons only for me!

Does anybody know the weight of a 48cal steel ball? So we can get the fpe reading. In the scond video the speed was 480fps and weight was 122gr that is 60fpe.

122 gr is near enough. 1/2" weighs 129 grains; 15/32" weighs 107 grains.

The birds being shot could well be unprotected in many countries outside the USA; 
There are respondents here from all over the world. Though crossbows are not legal in some eg., here in NSW Australia.
The world is a large place.
Bald eagles don't exist in most of it, but other similar eagles do. Our wedgetail eagle is about same size, protected, but killed by cars and trucks in large numbers on the big western highways due to being slow at getting air-born off of other road kill, kangaroos etc.
H.