Fig 1.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm.
Fig 2.
H&N Baracuda Hunter airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm.
Fig 3.
H&N Silverpont airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm.
Fig 4.
PCP FAC FX Bobcat Mk II cal. 6.35 mm air rifle.
Table 1.
Velocities of cal. 6.35mm airgun pellets measures at a distance of 10m, [m/s].
Table 2.
Impact energy values of cal. 6.35 mm airgun pellets measured at a distance of 10m, [J].
Table 3.
Parameters of porcine bones used in the study (A-P: front – back, L-L: side – side, SD: standard deviation, Max: maximum value, Min: minimum value).
Table 4.
Coding of different airgun pellets depending on surface of femur shaft shot.
Table 5.
Extent of bone damage depending on the type of 6.35 mm airgun pellets when shooting into to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft. Cases of ricochets were excluded from further analysis.
Fig 5.
Bone entrance wound area in [mm2] depending to type of pellet (result of one way Anova and results of post-hoc tests: LSD Fisher and Sheffe).
Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 6.
Periosteum entrance wound area in [mm2] according to the type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 7.
RA ratio depending on type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 8.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: A-P X-ray, centre: entry bone damage, on the right: lateral X-ray. Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 9.
H&N Baracuda Hunter airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, from the left: entry wound damage, A-P X-ray, lateral X-ray. Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 10.
H&N Silverpoint airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, from the left: entry wound damage, A-P X-ray, lateral X-ray. Shot to the anterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Table 6.
Extent of bone damage depending on the type of 6.35 mm airgun pellets when shooting into to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft. Cases of ricochets were excluded from further analysis.
Fig 11.
Bone entrance wound area in [mm2] depending to the type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 12.
Periosteum entrance wound area in [mm2] depending on the type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 13.
RA ratio depending on type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 14.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: A-P X-ray, on the right: lateral X-ray. Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 15.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: entry damage, in the centre: view of shrapnel in front of bone, on the right: view of shrapnel in front of bone and detached periosteum.
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 16.
H&N Baracuda Hunter pellet cal 6.35 mm, from the left: entry wound damage, A-P X-ray, lateral X-ray.
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 17.
H&N Silverpoint airgun pellet cal 6.35 mm, from the left: entry wound damage, A-P X-ray, lateral X-ray.
Shot to the posterior surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 18.
Bone entrance wound area in [mm2] depending to the type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 19.
Periosteum entrance wound area in [mm2] depending on the type of pellet (result of one way Anova with Brown-Forsythe correction and results of post-hoc tests: Brown-Forsythe and Games-Howell).
Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 20.
RA ratio depending on the type of pellet (result of one way Anova and results of post-hoc tests: LSD Fisher and Sheffe).
Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 21.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: image of entry damage, on the right: view of pellet fragments in front of bone and detached periosteum.
Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 22.
H&N Baracuda airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: A-P X-ray, on the right: lateral X-ray. Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 23.
H&N Baracuda Hunter airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left:A-P X-ray, in the centre: image of entry damage, on the right: lateral X-ray. Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Fig 24.
H&N Silverpoint airgun pellet cal. 6.35 mm, on the left: A-P X-ray, in the centre: image of entry damage, on the right: lateral X-ray.
Shot to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft.
Table 7.
Extent of bone damage depending on the type of 6.35 mm airgun pellets when shooting into to the lateral surface of the femoral shaft. Cases of ricochets were excluded from further analysis.