Found an old pellet...

[joeshaw08]

My stepdad was routing through his toolbox when he found an old .22 air rifle pellet that he used when he was a kid. It had a 1cm spike on the end of it with what looks like paint brissles at the back. I fired it through my springer and it was fine, and more accurate than I thought. Just a ****** trying to get it out! Anbody know what these are for? I thought as it has the brissles it was for cleaning the barrel??

[MM]

sounds like an old Gat dart

 

 

on second thought, did they make a .22 Gat?

Edited September 10, 2009 by MM

[Billy.]

Yeah, GAT gun dart. Never knew they did it in .22 though

[unclemicky]

I used to use them 1967 - 1969 ish , like you say a nightmare to get out of targets with out damage Edited September 10, 2009 by unclemicky

[humperdingle]

Don't think they were made for the Gat, but .22 darts were certainly available when I were a nipper.

 

Prob still get them on that auction site. We used to use them (.177) from the Gats into an old dartboard.

[strongski]

i used 177 darts in my 22

[Billy.]

Prob still get them on that auction site.

 

eBay and guns are an absolute no no. You're not even allowed to sell brass cases on there as they constitute part of a firearm that can be constructed to make something deadly.

[Alanl50]

Loads of gun were smooth bore for either darts of pellets, I had many Gat guns and various Dianas that were smooth bore we used to fire "Lanes cat slugs" through smooth bores, recommended for smoothbores, they had no waist on the pellet,you know what I mean the wall of the pellet was straight.

Then I got my first proper air rifle a "Webley Falcon" .22 with a rifled barrel, it was either BSA Pylarm or Marksmen pellets, scopes did not really exist for air rifles then that were anything, **** 4x15 which you could see your target better not not looking through it. lol

(40 odd years ago)

Still I managed to shoot many a pheasant, duck, rabbit, and pigeon with it, happy days

Alan

[snipper]

loads of darts on ebay ... all in 177 no 22

[bullet boy]

Def and old Gat Gun dart!

[Beardo]

i wouldn't fire it too often, as they're hard metal and will screw your rifling

[bruno22rf]

these things were common when i were a lad-used to come with different colour tails on and were made, i think ,by milbro.Shooting them thru a rifled barrell is perhaps the quickest way to ruin your gun cos they are made of steel-nuff said.

[Edward]

Sounds like an air dart, pointless but fun

[adam1]

We used to swear down they were the meanest hunting projectile on the go 25 or more years ago ( they did look a bit brutal ), how daft were we as kids? B) . Please dont answer that.

[pyr8]

they were weak as water fired from a gat,the corks you could get were better.accidently shot my mates budgie with a cork slug.luckily didn.t kill it just knocked it out cold for a couple of minuites.

[alexr]

they were weak as water fired from a gat,the corks you could get were better.ACCIDENTLY shot my mates budgie with a cork slug.luckily didn.t kill it just knocked it out cold for a couple of minuites.

 

A likely story

Edited September 16, 2009 by alexr

[Zapp]

I used to use darts in my old plinking rifle. They werent great for your rifling, but they looked cool if you imagined your dad's shed was a rhino in need of a tranquiliser dart

 

ZB