The pellet thread!

[William Tell]

My box of 100 Prometheus pellets arrived on Wednesday I should have listened to the reviews Could'nt get a grouping at point blank with these things, needless to say 90 pellets going cheap on a popular auction site!

I was just going to say here, how good I've found Defiant .177 pellets made by Prometheus and saw this.
I ordered a 1000 .177 4.52 posted for £13. Enclosed free were about five other pots of a hundred each, of other pellet types and head sizes.
Bob at Defiant Bob/R that is, sent the free jobbies for me to give to my mates at the range to try. good PR I thought!!
Anyway, the 4.48, 4.50 (7.5 gr) were the same as my 4.52mm in both my HW springers, spot on!! Shooting apples at least 40 yards, depending how high up on the tree LOL all shot in the same hole or same apple at least Cookers LOL.. Well the smaller size did shoot a bit higher ,being a bit less tight in the barrel. Not the most scientific of test's but good enough for me. The Theoben much preferred the smaller two sizes, but the Defiant pellet skirt fitted in the HW barrels superbly, better infact than HW's own pellet I thought..
To be fair I didn't try them close up!! but for pistols, I know Bob recommends a different pellet type some of which he enclosed free.
I have tried to get my buddies at the range to club together to buy 12 boxes between us. No doing!! you can order a mix and match variety but I fancy these 4.50 head size as a good compromise. Or would be quite happy with the 4.52 which fit as snugly as the AA I tried. Other pellet brands that I could also find no difference in comparison were BLRG's, Accupell and Lazerdomes. Dare I say, not quite as good either in some cases..

[mikerichards]

I am yet to try the Falcon pellets in the FN-12, but i know it likes accupels anyway.
I bought a few sample packs to see what was best in the Daystate MK3,
i bought, accupels, some crosman pointed ones i forget the name of, and some daystate select 4.51 and 4.52.
The accupel grouping was similar to that i would expect from a shotgun, i think technically it was about a 10 inch group. Not good!
The other crossman pellets were pretty bad and they did not cycle nicely through the mag either, so they were no good.
The selects were good, i had a tin of 4.5 exacts anyway, so i could compare the 3. I cleaned the barrel between each group and gave a good 20 shots before groupings came in tight again, the 4.5's were pretty good, almost one hole groups. the 4.51 tightened in again to a ragged one hold group, the 4.52's tightened in even more and gave me a 10 shot group that was marginally bigger than a single .177 hole in the paper.
That was done at 25 yards on an open range.

Yesterday i tried the air arms on 4.52's, pretty good to be fair, not as tight as the daystate, but not far off!!!

[j_bygott]

theoben rapid .22 anshcutz barrels - h and n ftt or air arms fields

theoben rapid .177 anschutz barrels - bislery mags

falcon .22 walther barrels - rws super dome

bsa barrels in .22 love air arms fieldss or jsb exacts

[crazyliam]

bsa ultra .22 bisley magnums they are great

[tbonesnake]

webley vulcan .22 / 12 foot pounds = Prometheus Paragon Z1, 14.5gr

crosman 2250b .22 / 9 foot pounds = rws super-h-point ,14.2gr

umarex beretta px4 storm .177 pistol / 3.5 foot pounds = rws hobby 7.0gr

[nelly1]

ive only really used acupell .22 in my webley raider and both me and my son found them good
just my thoughts
neil

[austin870]

Taken from an indoor benchrest at 25yds with the same fixed power 24X fine crosshair scope. All pellets are .177 and any that did not fit were manually fully seated.

RWS 52 shoots JSB Exact Heavies 10.2gr best and just loves this pellet. It shot Supermag 9.3gr and Premier 10.5gr decent but less consistant.

HW97 shoots RWS R10 Match Heavy 8.2gr (literally 5 shots through one wadcutter hole if I can hold it), Also shot one ragged hole with JSB Exact 7.9gr & Exact 8.4gr.

HW35 shoots JSB Exact 7.9gr, JSB Exact 8.4gr, H&N Field Target Trophy 8.64gr, RWS R10 Match Heavy 8.2gr. This gun is not finicky at all.

HW30S shoots JSB Exact 7.9gr, H&N Field Target Trophy 8.64, 8.4gr. I am going to try some 10M Match pellets around 7gr to 8gr because it really seems to like the light stuff.

Every gun shot JSB Exacts very well and little if any difference between the 7.9gr and 8.4gr. They all shot Crossman Premiers 7.9 OK but too many fliers and they did not seat well. All Gamo or hunting designed pellets shot like crap.

[koljo]

BSA Lonestar .25 FAC - JSB Kings 25.4 gn
FWB 300s (8 fpe) - Webley Mosquitoes 4.52

[craeg]

Hi all

Anyone rate the H7N Field Target Trophy .22 for a BSA Hornet single shot?

Cheers
Craeg

[mark22c]

Gamo shadow 1000 .22

likes Bisley practice (flat heads)

[JoshW93]

AirArms s200: JSB Exact Diablo .177, Air Arms Field .177.
They both shoot well, very recommended.

[21grains]

Benjamin Marauder .22 FAC H&N Baracuda 5.52 Best
JSB Heavy18.1 5.52 Worst
CP Box 14.3 .215 OK
RWS Su.Fl 15.9 ? Not bad
GAMO Hnt. 15.4 ? Fair
All shot from 50yds 2 (10each) mag's each test from 1 pcs. rest. top to 3000 for each test. These were the best of many tested. Suprise was Gamo better than JSB,go figure. Used AGBR 25 targets 1 shot each,used 5 for resighting after pull througt patch for each pellet. wanted to be fair in testing.....Franky

[J00SPD29]

My .177 BSA r-10 likes JSB Exacts 4.52, these also go very well in my sons AA S400. Consistent 5 pence sized groups at 30 yards bench rested indoors.

[sharpshooter44]

TX200 MkI
Loves . RWS Superdomes
Dislikes ....... Hunter Magnums (with a passion)

[ianwoolford@msn]

both my hw100's my 97k and hw99s all are .177 and seem happiest with jsb exact 4.52,
my son has a hw99s in .22 and it works best with h&n ftt/weihrauch f and t
he has tried rws superfield and they group well but drop quickly it seems maybe its because they are heavier,typically with h&n's he gets a group around 18-20mm at 25yards rested
last weekend i did a session with the 97k and got groups of between 10-12mm with the exacts rested at 25yards
the hw100s do pretty much single cloverleaf holes at 25yards off a harris bipod
the hw99s does around 15mm c/c 25yards rested with jsb's,i'm fitting a v-mach kit to it and having a bit of a fettle with it so will see if it groups any better
my alecto prefers hobbies and accupels and my hw45 likes hobbies and h&n ftts