Talk:Pellet (air gun)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

origin of word "pellets"

That section on "pellets" is unsourced folk etymology and should be removed. The word "electron" wasn't coined until 1891, according to dictionary.com and merriam-webster. Fitzroy Henry Lee died in 1750. Toofewneurons (talk) 19:45, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Sexism?

Why is "high proficiency level" defined as 570 for men, 380 for women? Shouldn't both sexes be treated equally? I can understand the rationale for different standards where gender differences may be relevant (i.e. where significant strength is required), but there should be no gender difference with firing lightweight airguns.Royalcourtier (talk) 01:17, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Probably due to differences in sample size, which screws with how high you'd need to score to be in the 95th percentile. I'm not entirely sure which section of competition is being referenced though; It could be 10m rifle, 5m pistol, field target, or a number of other distinct sections of competitive shooting, so I don't know where that metric came from exactly. 68.40.169.228 (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Pellet gun lethality and control

Can anybody add two paragraphs which seem to me VERY IMPORTANT and ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY : 1) How LETHAL are pellet guns ? a woman in San Diego was shot dead with a pellet gun (August 7th ? 2023) 2) what about PELLET GUN CONTROL laws, age, purchase, etc...??? thanks for picking up this topic 2A01:CB10:85CF:F900:6197:E207:61D:ADCA (talk) 10:15, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

irrelevant here. You mix two things.

You are asking to add a mandatory warning about ARSON, DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS and RECKLESSDRIVING on a page that exist to explain about gasoline and it's different forms and origins.

Do you get what i'm saying? Pellets have nothing to do with anything you suggest. I could have understood if you wanted to add warnings about the toxicity of LEAD, which most pellets are made of. Old💩404 (talk) 08:28, 14 August 2023 (UTC)