I've knocked down knockdown targets at 12 yards or so, with the S & W.
Chris.
Far too many rifles & pistols to mention here.
As MikeB stated above H&N Match Kugeln for me, but they seem to work well across the board for me, my 2 HW40's seem to love them. down side they are not cheap you will get 2-3 tins of hobby for the same money depending where you shop.
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Hi Guys
Oh well out on a limb again.
I use Dynamic PPP I since I object to lead in the environment. Expensive but accurate they fly flatter (and so higher) than most other pellets. They are fine for target work but because they are harder they can penetrate much more than most and so are not clever for hunting unless you take a head shot or through the shoulder.
Will eventually get round to doing penetration tests on various pellets and put them up on the site.
Regards
Jim
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Hi Jim,
Are those the plastic bodied ones will little metal cores?
I have some of those (yellow plastic, with some form of alloy nose and Core) similar to Flat headed Promethius pellets.
Never fired them other than a couple of times through my CP99 into a form of ballistics gel.
I did some penetration tests months ago using a geletin block (My pistol bow won hands down, through the gel, and the metal container) using a few different pellets. (They say great minds think alike)
The yello plastic things looked cool, the metal core continued to penetrate after the body had stopped which surprised me.
Tony
UBC Secretary & Web-ManagerTHL Marksman of the Year 2010
(Airgun Section)
Decided to have a propper play with em this dinner time!
BINNED THE LOT of em CRAP!!! the worst thing I could ever do.
Put a few dozen through my CP99, my P800 and my P23!!!
Then went back to Geco's and Eley Wasps.
Out of the few hundred I fired hardly any actually landed where I placed the sight
Guess the PPP's you mention aint the little yellow that I thought of!
Spent hours cleaning my barrels Kept pulling little grey/yellow threads of plastic (thinner than PTFE) out of the barrels! NOT FUN
Tony
UBC Secretary & Web-ManagerTHL Marksman of the Year 2010
(Airgun Section)
I TRIED them. Rubbish as you say. shame as they hit well, but whats the point if they dont hit what you aim at. I think the range of co2 guns are very good with respectable accuracy, and its a shame that these slugs are available for sale, as when i bought my s & w i was recomended them by the shop owner, and i thought, this is crap, till i put some lead through, and now its great! was at the range today sighting the ev in, then played with the s&w and had great fun in the sun wacking coke cans at 20 meters free hand (2 hands) great fun, and takes away from the more competitive side of shooting, at least for me any way!
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Hi Tony
Dynamics are the solid tin pellets. Prometheus are the ones with the plastic sabbots.
I found that the solid pellet is fine but because of the weight difference between tin & lead they are REALLY light and fly higher and flatter than lead.
From what I can gather, since I've never used them, the Prometheus pellets have a problem with the plastic sabbot catching and tearing either in the rifling or on the barrel crown. Since it's you I assume that your barrel is clean but I don't know if you've done the crown. So if that's OK there may be a rough spot on the rifling which lead and tin both deform at and then reform in the rest of the rifling and produce good results. Obviously not a BAD barrel but one of those minor inconsistencies caused by pulling the button through to make the rifling.
Regards
Jim
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Jim are those the ones that come in a silver box, around 600 in a box or something, if so i tried these and they are pretty good, down side i think they were about £13 a box though, have a word down your local club guy's and see if you can pinch a dozen or so to give them a go.
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Yeah Jason
That's the ones but before you buy them they are machined not cast or pressed so you need the correct head size if you use .22
When I find the write up I have I'll drop it on the site under an individual heading but the manufacturer publishes a table of recommendation's for .22.
I know B.A.R. do them at £9.90 a box and I am certain JSR will compete.
Just remember there are 400 to a box in .22 and 600 in .177
Also, if you hunt, they will penetrate at longer ranges but tend to over penetrate at short to mid range.
Jim
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