Ice Pellets

[Ronno6]

Anyone ever tried to mold pellets out of ice??

[Mole2017]

Ice might be problematic, but maybe pykrete stands a chance doing better. Most lightweight pellet alloys are around 7x more dense than ice, so both would make really lightweight pellets. Then again, maybe that might be a useful property in a large bore application...hmmm.

[JuryRigger]

Ice?  Never tried it, but an interesting proposition... Just a couple random thoughts, but I don't think you could shoot an ice projectile in anything other than a smoothbore-I have a feeling that the squeeze from rifling would crush/fragment it otherwise... You may also find that it wouldn't hold up to a high-powered platform, either... To much shock in the bore and it may be crushed again, low and slow over a distance is probably your best bet.
Still; not a bad idea in a cooler climate; lead-free, biodegradable, renewable, an endless supply of raw material for "casting", and ease of making them... Though unless you have a multi-cavity mold, it might be a slow process...
Any specific caliber/uses in mind?
Jesse

[Ronno6]

No specific caliber....just the musings of an idle mind on a long bicycle ride....

I have always wondered if a coroner could adequately determine cause of death if one choked
to death on a piece of ice, which them melted........

I have heard of glass bullets, so merging the two ideas was kinda like inventing peanut butter cups........

[Duckfish]

Ice pellets?  Snow balls in hel!

[Blowpipe Sam]

Pyecrete definately.  I'd try paper pulp.  Think frozen spitball!

[avator]

I go out of my way to keep water out of my guns... I don't think I'll be putting any in them.. 

[Nvreloader]

I have heard of glue gun bullets.............. used in CF pistol's

[jmoronic]

I go out of my way to keep water out of my guns... I don't think I'll be putting any in them.. 

How about dry ice???

[avator]

Talk about vapor trail... 

[JuryRigger]

Just sayin'; you need a Co2 gun to shoot dry ice.... 
And if you heated the barrel; wouldn't it be kind of like one of those Gyrojet rocket bullets? 
Jesse

[jmoronic]

It just keeps getting deeper...

[wolverine]

Seasoning the barrel would be easy.


#1. Pour 1oz cold distilled water into breech with mizzle of gum pointed down. 


#2. Place gun in freezer until barrel is properly cooled. 


#3. Load gun with ice pellet and shoot in a safe direction.

[null]

How about gum pellets. 

I find it lot where I work under desks, and in places you'd least likely to expect. It's typically hard as a rock.

[jmoronic]

Now I'm starting to wonder if we all have a beater gun that will shoot anything that will fit in the barrel?
BB / pellet / dart / wad of paper / tooth pick / match stick / salt / ETC. (the salt works great on flying bugs)

[Blowpipe Sam]

Now I'm starting to wonder if we all have a beater gun that will shoot anything that will fit in the barrel?
BB / pellet / dart / wad of paper / tooth pick / match stick / salt / ETC. (the salt works great on flying bugs)

Yep.  It’s called a “B-3”.   

[null]

When I was doing a barrel swap on one of my 1322's, I turned it into a shotgun, by chambering a .22cal pellet, then front loading 10 .177 pointed pellets, then I got paper and a using a bamboo skewer and shoved it in to hold it all in.

Pumped it up 10x and it was interesting. The spread at 10 yards was like a modified choke. It was pretty tight.

To see if that did any damage, I shot a few pellets and it was just as accurate... I then repeated it like 20x and it still shot just fine.

So if you need an impromptu shotgun to act kind of like "snake shot" there's your answer. Get a dedicated 1322 and use it for that... lol

Do I recommend it on a good gun?? -- absolutely not. But hey, I had fun and the experiment went very, very well.

[JohnnyPDX]

When I was doing a barrel swap on one of my 1322's, I turned it into a shotgun, by chambering a .22cal pellet, then front loading 10 .177 pointed pellets, then I got paper and a using a bamboo skewer and shoved it in to hold it all in.

Pumped it up 10x and it was interesting. The spread at 10 yards was like a modified choke. It was pretty tight.

To see if that did any damage, I shot a few pellets and it was just as accurate... I then repeated it like 20x and it still shot just fine.

So if you need an impromptu shotgun to act kind of like "snake shot" there's your answer. Get a dedicated 1322 and use it for that... lol

Do I recommend it on a good gun?? -- absolutely not. But hey, I had fun and the experiment went very, very well.

That's really cool 'shotgun' idea and I have a beater gun that will I'd try that with.

To The OP: I really want to see the ice pellet idea proven or otherwise.

[jmoronic]

Now I'm starting to wonder if we all have a beater gun that will shoot anything that will fit in the barrel?
BB / pellet / dart / wad of paper / tooth pick / match stick / salt / ETC. (the salt works great on flying bugs)

Yep.  It’s called a “B-3”.   

I had a B5 and like an idiot I sold it. Still looking for a replacement.

[TotallyTortoise]

Now I'm starting to wonder if we all have a beater gun that will shoot anything that will fit in the barrel?
BB / pellet / dart / wad of paper / tooth pick / match stick / salt / ETC. (the salt works great on flying bugs)

As a kid, me and the neighbors stuffed everything that would fit in our Red Ryder's and cheap pistols. Partly out of curiosity, partly because we were poor and would run out of BBs.