painful video

Novacastrian · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:06 am

At the risk of sounding like Benstern, how is this allowed on the forum?, because we did not see the impact? Looks fake to me.

Solar · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:16 am

Oops, what forum rule might we be breaking? I assure you it was not faked. That was a foam rocket impacting inner thigh skin under denim jeans.

Ragnarok · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:32 am

Well, talking about shooting living creatures is against forum rules.

However, if you'll wait just one moment...

Going to the LRC spreadsheet I'm working on, I get a completely different velocity to Ant. At 150 ft, I find the projectile was still going at around 100 m/s, for around 116J/85.5 ft-lbs of energy.

Although that's only about 30% of the ME, that's a lot more than I would want to get hit by. Not much less than I have been hit by though.

jackssmirkingrevenge · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:37 am

Well, talking about shooting living creatures is against forum rules.

The exception to this rule is for proper use of legal airsoft and/or paintball markers.

Ragnarok · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:43 am

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
The exception to this rule is for proper use of legal airsoft and/or paintball markers.

Well, I believe we could say the marshals wouldn't allow a high calibre 600 fps launcher on the paintball field, so I don't believe this can get through that loophole this time, even if the Eclipse can be used as a field legal PB shotgun.

jackssmirkingrevenge · Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:48 am

Fair point, though I imagine whoever made the first paintball marker had to administer a bit of pain before getting power levels right, all in the name of R&D of course

Ragnarok · Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:07 am

Well, actually, the first PB marker originally used for a paintball game was... I believe... a Nelspot 007 paint pistol (originally used to allow marking of animals without having to chase them all over the field, I think), which with it's original parts originally fired at a bit under 200 fps - but with a few velocity tweaks is still considered a very respectable marker, simply because of sheer accuracy.

The experimentation must have come much later.

Solar · Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:38 am

Makes you wonder if the testers would monitor the decibel level of the moos.

I don't plan on making more videos of human targets. This one was for the most part spontaneous. The info has been valuable though.

The 100mps speed seems very possible. 70fps seemed a little slow, even at that distance. If I had the time I would put the 3d rocket model into Realflow and do a simulation.

oh, and the target human died twice on the operating table after a car wreck. Our friends consider him not a living creature, but UN dead. Loophole?

jackssmirkingrevenge · Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:51 am

LOLOL I don't believe this forum has a policy on shooting at zombies

On another note, 600 fps for a 23 gram projectile is impressive stuff if you were to use it for more destructive purposes - assume you put that weight as a 10 gram sabot and 37 0.177 steel BBs each weighing 0.35 grams, that's one hell of a buckshot round at that velocity

Solar · Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:58 am

That does sound rather painful. What is considered fast for a bb? Isn't a good bb gun able to hit over 1000 fps?

This is interesting. 600fps bb is used to calibrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin

jackssmirkingrevenge · Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:03 am

Solar wrote:That does sound rather painful. What is considered fast for a bb? Isn't a good bb gun able to hit over 1000 fps?

Of course I don't suggest you fire that at a living target

I think 600-700 fps is the normal velocity for commercially available crosman type BB guns. In higher powered - so called "adult" - airguns, lead pellets tend to be used, as steel BBs can't bite into the rifling and therefore are incapable of the accuracy of their lead brethren.

Solar · Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:07 am

haha, of course not. just curious. Note the edit to my last post with the addition of the link. good reading. Geez, I must sleep. It is 4am here, long day tomorrow starts in 5 hours.

jackssmirkingrevenge · Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:12 am

a BB penetration between 3.25 and 3.75 inches

Imagine what 37 of them would do

Not really deep enough penetration to reliably reach a vital organ, but if it were a headshot... *ahem* I digress, before I fall foul of forum regulations.

Ragnarok · Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:18 am

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:I don't believe this forum has a policy on shooting at zombies

I also have a mate who has a valid death certificate (which is a few years old now). I don't have one of those - I simply fail to die, he comes back to life.

However, last time we checked, he was definitely a vampire, not a zombie.

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