Help choosin pellets for my Tau 7 please

[I. J.]

Check this thread re pellets. A few at the club use a Tinbum pellet sizer and get very good results from the RWS Basic at half the price of R10.

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....cheap-and-good!

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Bri

Tis true! Ive used sized RWS Basic in a variety of pistols, (springer, CO2 and pcp) and have 'brought home the bacon' on many occasions.

HTH
Ian

[PhatMan]

Zero58,

It all depends on how much you are willing to spend.

As Mr. Carter says, the price differential between 'cheaper' pellets and 'top-notch' is not great, so you may as well use the top-notch and not loose any sleep.

Last Friday I bought some RWS Hobby, and some RWS R10 Pistol pellets ; I bought 5000 of each, and this worked out to :

Hobby = 0.89 p/pellet

R10 = 1.5 p/pellet

(The Hobby's were bought exclusively for 'plinking')

So for a 120 shot session, the Hobby's would cost £1.07, and the R10s £1.89 - 80 p more 'expensive' per 120 shot session.

Only you can say whether this is significant.

My Tau7 shoots extremely well with the RWS R10s, and also with the JSB Match (Green, 7.33 gr.), and these pellets are what I use the most in my 'match' pistols & rifles.

The Tau 7 also shoots JSB Express (7.87 gr. 'field' pellets) very well indeed, so you are not necessarily stuck with using only flat headed 'match' pellets.

However, if the pellets are not used for 'critical' applications (target matches, hunting), then shoot whatever you are comfortable with.

I doubt whether any of the pellets from the respected companies (JSB, RWS, H&N) could be deemed truly and absolutely sh!te, so get yourself some RWS Hobby/CO2, and a tin of RWS R10s or JSB Match or Qiang Yuan to compare with, and have a play.

Have fun

Best regards

Russ

[zooma]

We shot Tau 7 Match for many years at our club and always found that the RWS Meisterkugeln worked very - no missed shots could ever be blamed on the pellets

The RWS Meisterkugeln pellets are a good price ( less than R10 but more than Hobby or Basics) and could be regarded as a very good choice without breaking the piggy bank

[Bjacobs571]

In my opinion until you can reliably put all ten shots into the black and preferibly in the 8 ring you are wasting your time worring about what pellets you use. Its not a rifle where a good group is a one hole group.
If you take the logic of the othe other posters to the extreme I would ask why you are wasting your time with a Tau 7 and not using a Steyr Evo 10e.
Just enjoy your shooting and concentrate on the your sight picture and trigger release they are 100 times as important as the pellet you use.

[thisisdonald]

I built a bench rest for sighting in when I still had my fwb100.
https://goo.gl/photos/w6LetmycHe1kLN6E7
I put a beanbag under the grip when sighting in.. obviously as I had to remove the pistol to cock it, it wasn't perfect, still, using it, I could dial right in on the 10 and the pistol proved it could do one hole groups if I could (which I couldn't 😂! )

I made it from a board of ash and only took about an hour or so to make. The leather was from an old jacket.

You could make something like this to see which pellets are most accurate.

I used r10 and meisterkugeln but preffered the r10. Like Phatman pointed out - it's not a huge difference in cost per session and I just felt that I shot better with r10. Whether that was scientific or all in my head, nobody will know.

I would buy a few kinds and shoot shoot shoot... it will quickly become apparent what suits.

[hwtyger]

JSB Rifle match(yellow). I believe in 4.51. Thats favorite of both my Tau 7 Match and Silhouet.
For my Tau 7 Jr, its JSB Pistol 4.49 (=green)
RWS, H&N...waiste of time/money. All were outshot by JSB.
Havent tried JSB S100 yet in the Tau 7s
My Tau mk8 only grouped with Qichuan or what are they called. Some chinese matchpellet.

[Zero58]

I built a bench rest for sighting in when I still had my fwb100.
https://goo.gl/photos/w6LetmycHe1kLN6E7
I put a beanbag under the grip when sighting in.. obviously as I had to remove the pistol to cock it, it wasn't perfect, still, using it, I could dial right in on the 10 and the pistol proved it could do one hole groups if I could (which I couldn't 😂! )

I made it from a board of ash and only took about an hour or so to make. The leather was from an old jacket.

You could make something like this to see which pellets are most accurate.

I used r10 and meisterkugeln but preffered the r10. Like Phatman pointed out - it's not a huge difference in cost per session and I just felt that I shot better with r10. Whether that was scientific or all in my head, nobody will know.

I would buy a few kinds and shoot shoot shoot... it will quickly become apparent what suits.

Hi Donld.
Thanks for your post and photos that's a handsome pistol clamp I bet it works a dream I'm getting my carpenter friend to make me one he doesn't know it yet but it would benifit both of us .
He pop over last night with is chronograph my tau7
Over a shot string of 10 using R10 pellets was between 473 and 483 5 of the shots were 475 he said he thought that was pritty good for a c02 would you say it was or do I need to adjust her up or down??

Taken on board pellet information I do have some R10 left about half tin so I've sent away for JSB green
Tin I also have a few jsb express but they are round heads so lots to do over the week end
Thanks for posting
From frank

[Zero58]

Thankyou to every one who as replied to my post.
Apologies to any one I've not replied to but I have read all of them more then once.
I'm going to try to do a pellet test over the weekend will let you all know what happens earlie next week
Once again thanks to one and all
From Frank

[Zero58]

In my opinion until you can reliably put all ten shots into the black and preferibly in the 8 ring you are wasting your time worring about what pellets you use. Its not a rifle where a good group is a one hole group.
If you take the logic of the othe other posters to the extreme I would ask why you are wasting your time with a Tau 7 and not using a Steyr Evo 10e.
Just enjoy your shooting and concentrate on the your sight picture and trigger release they are 100 times as important as the pellet you use.

Thank you for your post
I did ask on forum in another post about performance
Of the TAU 7 Bruno and I was told by all that it would be a good starting the Disapline pistol as there was a good one for sale on this forum I brought it to see if this Disapline in shooting would keep me happy if it doesn't I've not lost a great deal of money but I would have if I had brought a pistol the likes of what you quoted.
On the other hand I can see what you mean why buy two when one is all you need perhaps when I've gained more experience with this pistol I may justify spending out a shed load of money for a top of the range pcp pistol and dive bottle or pump at the preasent time I'll stick with co2

Thank you for you advice
From Frank

[Bjacobs571]

Thank you for your post
I did ask on forum in another post about performance
Of the TAU 7 Bruno and I was told by all that it would be a good starting the Disapline pistol as there was a good one for sale on this forum I brought it to see if this Disapline in shooting would keep me happy if it doesn't I've not lost a great deal of money but I would have if I had brought a pistol the likes of what you quoted.
On the other hand I can see what you mean why buy two when one is all you need perhaps when I've gained more experience with this pistol I may justify spending out a shed load of money for a top of the range pcp pistol and dive bottle or pump at the preasent time I'll stick with co2

Thank you for you advice
From Frank

I wasn't really suggesting that there is anything wrong with the Tau 7 or that it wasn't a good starter pistol. I was mearly saying that you don't need match grade hand sorted pellets until you have mastered a good sight picture and trigger control. The tau 7 will out shoot you or myself with most brands of pellets. The cheaper the pellets the more you will shoot and the better you will get.

[thisisdonald]

I wasn't really suggesting that there is anything wrong with the Tau 7 or that it wasn't a good starter pistol. I was mearly saying that you don't need match grade hand sorted pellets until you have mastered a good sight picture and trigger control. The tau 7 will out shoot you or myself with most brands of pellets. The cheaper the pellets the more you will shoot and the better you will get.

I'm not sure if agree with that. The reason I built my pistol bench rest was so I could test pellets. There was a definite difference between geco, hobby, r10, meisterkugeln, qian yuan and jsb. After testing several 5 shot groups from each, I settled on the r10 and mk for my pistol, and eventually settled on r10 as I got best results with them.

It's not fair to say that cheap pellets shoot just as good as dear pellets, or for that matter that any pellet shoots as good as another. If you don't believe me, get someone to set you a blind challenge and test for yourself.

I can say with confidence that certain pellets won't attain the muzzle velocity that others do and that the consistency in muzzle velocity won't be as good. Also, you may find yourself relegating a quarter a tin of pellets to the plinking pile!

The way I see it, it's a target pistol for getting the best score you can. Don't get into bad habits from the start. Test lots of pellets in your pistol, find the most consistent ones, sort them and shoot them with confidence that you've done the best you can to control whatever variables exist that will bring your score down.

When I was shooting 10m pistol I practised with the dry fire feature and when I shot cards, I tried to shoot as if each was a competition.

[Zero58]

I wasn't really suggesting that there is anything wrong with the Tau 7 or that it wasn't a good starter pistol. I was mearly saying that you don't need match grade hand sorted pellets until you have mastered a good sight picture and trigger control. The tau 7 will out shoot you or myself with most brands of pellets. The cheaper the pellets the more you will shoot and the better you will get.

Sorry you seemed to ask a question of me in that post so I explained why the best I could here's your question.
I would ask why you are wasting your time with a Tau 7 and not using a Steyr Evo 10e.

I'm confused I thought it was a question