Pellets for Classic Match Pistols
With the new MPL competition starting this month there has naturally been a lot of interest in finding the most suitable pistol to use in the series, and the most suitable match pellet to use in these pistols that mostly stem from the 70's.
The choice of pistol is quite varied, but inevitably the top pistols include the FWB 65, FWB80, Walther LP3, Original Model 6 and Model 10 etc.
The pellet most used at that time was the RWS Meisterkugeln, and unlike now we only had the one size (.177 or 4.50).
I am guessing that pistols of that era such as the Feinwerkbau Model 65 that held almost all of the records for many years were optimised for these same pellets, (or maybe the other way around) - but either way the combination of these pellets and these pistols produced superb accuracey and set world records (certainly with the FWB pistols mentioned) that have not really improved drastically to this day.
My guess would be that despite the much expanded range of pellets and sizes ( 4.48, 4.49, 4.50, 4.51, etc) the classic pellets used in the day to produce such good results are most likely to still be the RWS Meisterkugeln 4.50 - and these are still available.
Has anyone tested more modern pellets such as the RWS R10 directly against these classic pellets in their classic match air pistols- and can anyone see any difference between the 4.49 and 4.50 sizes as far as improved groupings are concerned?
Last edited by zooma; 04-08-2012 at 09:35 AM.
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