The Good Old Eley Wasp Pellets

[Top Gun FX2000]

Hi all just been searching the web trying to find out the year that Bisley took over from Eley making the wasp pellets i can not find anything to say when it was, Has any of you any idea please

[rabbitwrecker]

Eley Wasps were going downhill fast by the early '90s, but I've no idea when the barcoded Bisley version made an appearance...

[Top Gun FX2000]

Eley Wasps were going downhill fast by the early '90s, but I've no idea when the barcoded Bisley version made an appearance...

Hi rabbit wrecker thank you for your reply i collect old pellets and have a few eley wasp tins that vary somewhat but i picked a few full tins up last week that are totally different no bar coding on the tin and just the same as the eley wasp,s but no ref to eley on the tin just wasp and the pellets look just like the old quality wasps and not like the new bisley rubbish ones the tins have a price label on them for £4.80 so it could be that bisley may have still been using up the old stock pile of the eley wasp pellets in these tins i wonder???

[oliver13]

I just found the receipt for a .22 Lightning I got in 1989, I ordered 10000 Wasps to go with it. When they turned up they were the Bisley ones. I've still got a couple of tins left, I just use them for running in springers after a major service. You can put them in backwards & get an almost acceptable group for rat shooting at 10yds, about the same as putting them in forwards in fact.
So there's your answer, late 1989.

[the growler]

Ive still got a tin of 22 wasp £2.80, oh the memories.

[rabbitwrecker]

Strange as it may seem, the new barcoded red .177 Wasps perform very well in both the 99s and 30s...