[Knox8282]

I took a shot up target to work to show a fellow AR shooter. A girl who works with me saw it and asked if I was shooting a bb gun, since the holes were so small! I almost choked, I laughed so hard. I proceeded to explain to her the differences between a bb and a high powered rifle round. Ballistic gelatin wound channels finally impressed her! Silly girls! Just thought everyone might enjoy a laugh!

 

[mvician]

Well regular BB's are .177" and airsoft BB's are .243

 

[N.E. Tx.XD]

And there is such animal as a .17 HMR. Nasty little critter!! :twisted:

 

[gordonw1]

Is this girl hot? If so (assuming you're single), I think there should be a date to the range.

 

[John A.]

Actually, there is a 223/pellet conversion.

Convert-a-Pell » .22 Centerfire

So I guess she got the last laugh huh?

 

[Bonehead]

Is this girl hot? If so (assuming you're single), I think there should be a date to the range.

after she told him she thinks his gun is too small?

 

[cce1302]

That's ok, I heard a clerk at the gun counter at Bass Pro Shops telling a customer that the FN 5.7 pistol shoots the same thing as an M-16.

In your co-worker's defense, seeing only the holes in a target it can be very easy to mistake holes made by a mouse gun with holes made by a BB gun.

There is no excuse for claiming that 40 gr moving 2000fps is the same as 62gr moving 3000 fps, especially if you are someone who should know better.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Most of the BBs you see these days are the airsoft, and holes punched in paper are kind of hard to distinguish. Heck, I have a .22 pellet rifle. Try to distinguish that from .223.

 

[///MCoupé]

I have one of the older 22 pellet pump action air rifles too... great gun.

 

[TriviaMonster]

Big Bore air rifles
THE BEAST

We are talking a 525gr projectile at over 700fps. Nasty. Not my cup of tea, but there are some mean air rifles out there.
At 700 fps that is 571 foot pounds. Crazy, huh?

 

[Groo]

the paper can't tell the difference between a .223 and a .22 pellet, how would someone casually looking at the paper know the difference?

 

[///MCoupé]

Big Bore air rifles
THE BEAST

the gun in the pic is beautiful.. I want my shotgun camo'd like that.

 

[Ragnar]

Big Bore air rifles
THE BEAST

We are talking a 525gr projectile at over 700fps. Nasty. Not my cup of tea, but there are some mean air rifles out there.
At 700 fps that is 571 foot pounds. Crazy, huh?

I didn't know that there was a .58, .50 is the largest air rifle I'd seen.

I took a shot up target to work to show a fellow AR shooter. A girl who works with me saw it and asked if I was shooting a bb gun, since the holes were so small! I almost choked, I laughed so hard. I proceeded to explain to her the differences between a bb and a high powered rifle round. Ballistic gelatin wound channels finally impressed her! Silly girls! Just thought everyone might enjoy a laugh!

Luckily she didn't know anything about air rifles. That could have been embarrassing for you.

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