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 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:25 pm |
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| cissp22 |
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Hi there ,
one of my friends who has a small company wants to produce pellets.
i want to know what are PBA pellets Elements? is that Alume?
is it economical to produce pellets in lead or Alum(like PBA) ?
thanks a lot . |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:00 pm |
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| fritz |
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Aluminum is a horrible metal to make airgun ammo out of. Go with standard lead.
Read the post in Accessories started by Sam___ (<--- numbers after his name, sorry Sam I forgot them). IIRC the title is "could you introduce me to some high quality pellets". We all went over what we want to see in a pellet design/production.
Back to metals:
Alum is very light and hard (compared to lead). This means high velocity (instability), it won't grab onto airgun rifling, ricochets (not that big of a problem), poor energy transfer (into game). The alum might have a better ballistic coefficient, but it's unlikely.
On the other hand... if you follow a Predator type design with a "ballistic" tip made of alum that may work nicely. Beware of patent issues doing so, however. You could try a reverse sabot design for large bores where the alum is encased in lead for various reasons.
I'll come up with more things once other members post and give me leads. |
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