Sussex amoury Sabo pellets

[vulpinehunter]

I have just found two full tins 100 in each of the Sabo pellets in .22 produced by Sussex armoury in the 80's.
They are complete with all the plastic skirts and in original plastic boxes.

Does any one know what they are worth?
There were some on the bay in 2011 for 30 per box.

Thanks for looking any help would be gratefully appreciated.

[Hsing-ee]

Whatever anyone is willing to pay on the Bay, they are only of interest to collectors really. £10-£30 sounds about right for an 80s airgun curio.

Most shooters on here will recommend you file them in the bin.

[eyebull]

As above they are utter crap, but rare enough now to be slightly collectable. Put them on the bay as an auction and see how you get on

[Hsing-ee]

Or you could try offering them up to BTDT (Jim Tyler) to give a proper modern test in springers and PCPs in his 'Bright Ideas of Yesteryear' series in Airgun World.

[scoie]

no idea on value but a great blast from the past , totally crap in my springers at the time though. recently cleared out my old room as a boy in my family home and found two of the pens that you use to load them with. Also found a few of the prometheus pellets too . Loved the 80's and early 90's airgun kit

[Shed tuner]

the accuracy was crap, but the energy retention downrange and the penetration were awesome... in fact I have some, I might do some downrange chrono testing against modern pellets..

[Geezer]

Or you could try offering them up to BTDT (Jim Tyler) to give a proper modern test in springers and PCPs in his 'Bright Ideas of Yesteryear' series in Airgun World.

Sad sack that I am, I would really like to see an objective comparative test of the 80s "wonder pellets" - which would doubtless show they were rubbish, all the ones I tried were - including the Sabo, Prometheus, Titan Black, NATO bullet (IIRC, very good at penetrating metal dustbins, less good at hitting things smaller than a dustbin), Champion Ballistic...

[rhyslightnin]

Or you could try offering them up to BTDT (Jim Tyler) to give a proper modern test in springers and PCPs in his 'Bright Ideas of Yesteryear' series in Airgun World.

Now that would make a good read... He could try them in a BSA mercury with 6 inches of pre-load washers, against a transit van or a concrete filled metal dustbin