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Ever wonder how to increase the damage potential of your .177 caliber
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pellet gun? I recently discovered a few tips:
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1) Shotgun load. Both this and the item below work only in pneumatic air
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guns (pump). Start by loading a pellet, and closing the bolt. Now re-
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open the bolt and put in a BB, and close. You will have to push a bit
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to get it to close all the way. Re-open and add another BB, up to 5.
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Now you have 1 pellet and 5 BBs in the gun. Pump it up a good 10-12
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times. This will make a 5 or 6" spread at 25 feet away. Pretty im-
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pressive.
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2) Backwards hollow-point. Dum-dum pellets can be purchased, but they're
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hard to find. Instead, try a regular pellet, but load it backwards.
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This takes a technique in most guns, and you'll have to figure it out
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for yours, but once you do, it's simple. The damage is impressive. It
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keeps the .177 entry hole, but the exit wound looks like a .25 or even
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.32 was used. Even in a test I conducted with a beef stick, the exit
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wound was huge, and one pellet even fragmented inside. In a soaked book
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penetration test, the pellet performed fairly well, getting through
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the equivilant of about 1/2 to 3/4" of "skin".
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Both of these are pretty safe, and in both cases, you lose VERY little accu-
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racy for the improved damage factor. Also note in the shotgun load, the space
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between the BBs acts as dead air space, and silences the shot. A shotgun load
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pumped 10-20 times sounds like a BB pumped ONCE. Handy...
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--hack
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