Dad owes life to paintball shot

[Junkie]

Dad owes life to paintball shot | The Sun |News

[drnez]

Originally Posted by Junkie

Dad owes life to paintball shot | The Sun |News

a paintball.. "pellet?"

[claydirt]

Originally Posted by drnez

a paintball.. "pellet?"

It is an old school term that is meant to confuse and cause 3 words posts!!!!

[Grendel]

pellet Definition
pel·let (pel′it)

noun -

1. a little ball or rounded mass, as of clay, paper, medicine, compressed food for animals, etc.
2. a crude projectile of stone, etc., as used in a catapult or early cannon
3. a bullet or an imitation bullet
4. any of various pieces of small, usually lead, shot

Etymology: ME pelote < OFr < VL *pilotta, dim. of L pila, a ball, orig., knot of hair: see pile

transitive verb

1. to make pellets of
2. to shoot or hit with pellets

pellet Synonyms
pellet
n.

pill, globule, bullet, bead, pebble, grain, orblet, spherule; see also rock 2, stone.

pellet Usage Examples

• Object

manure: I think the addition of pelleted chicken manure has helped bring the sweetcorn on.

• Preposition: on

hook: Terry fished a short pole with soft pellet on the hook.

• Preposition: at

GMT: There was a moderate shower of snow pellets at 18 GMT that almost covered the ground.

• Adjective modifier

6mm: Best feed 4mm - 6mm halibut pellets, chopped meat or hemp.
3mm: My old bait dropper is loaded with hemp and 3mm pellet, gently swung down to the bottom.
fecal: Fecal pellets, disturbed by human movement, are pushed into the air.
caecal: The best probiotic is caecal pellets from a healthy rabbit, which have a mucus coating to withstand stomach acid.
shotgun: Almost a year ago, in an exchange of correspondence, a friend asked my opinion of how shotgun pellets kill.
4mm: Loose fed casters and 4mm pellet and double caster hookbait was the killer method.
Converse of object
resuspend: Discard the excess supernatant and resuspend the pellet in the 100 &mu;l from the pipette.
dissect: The Owl group dissected barn owl pellets, which revealed the number of field voles taken by barn owls.

• Modifies a noun

stove: A pellet stove ( without a back boiler ) in the region of £ 1500.
paste: Laying on about two rod lengths out with trout pellet paste is also extremely successful with the tench.
boiler: With this kind of influence on us how will the pellet boiler get a fair look-in?

• Noun used with modifier

carp: Daniel float fished luncheon meat over small carp pellets.
slug: Re: pet friendly slug pellets - do they exist?
halibut: Today, in the colored water, I will be using halibut pellets on the hook.
hooker: Only ever bought one tub of hooker pellets and they were green.
airgun: A NHW member has reported that her pedigree cat had to receive veterinary treatment after being been shot with an airgun pellet.
owl: Take the " owl pellet " lesson, for example.

Ya, I think it works just as well as "ball" or "bullet" I hear on our side of the pond

[MrWizard]

Originally Posted by Grendel

pellet Definition
pel·let (pel′it)

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I'm probably the only one who reads all that you know...

[Leandra]

Wow this guy gets shot in the face, finds out that he has cancer and was able to live and all we saw was instead of saying 'paintball' they said 'pellet'

[Grendel]

Originally Posted by MrWizard

I'm probably the only one who reads all that you know...

Yup, Dan you were right

[havokrooster]

thats a pea sized pellet mind you. they must grow some mighty fierce sized peas out that way.

[drnez]

Originally Posted by havokrooster

thats a pea sized pellet mind you. they must grow some mighty fierce sized peas out that way.

thank you. that was exactly the point i was hinting at.

[Scorch]

They were probally talking about those airsoft paintballs, those things are small.