5.6 pellets

[reyn12]

So I'm finally getting to the end of my original 5.6mm Eley Wasps which I use in mr BSA Airsporter. Well my question is what are you guys using as an alternative?? Cheers

[WebleyWombler]

I'm finding superdomes the most suitable for my BSAs but beaten by the old Marksman, of which I still have a good supply.
Superdomes seem to suit a lot of Webley pistols as well

[andrewM]

I still have some old Eley Wasp but I have found that S.domes are very slightly better in accuracy in my BSA Standards and Webley Mk3s. There is a slight power loss but only in the region of around 0.3ft/lbs compared with Wasp.

H&N were going to produce a 5.6mm for the UK market. I was in touch with them a year or two ago and they had taken on the machinery from one of the 5.6mm pellet makers - I seem to recall it was Vintage Defiant. I provided a report a year or so ago, for the site, on the matter. I do not know where they are now.

Rgds
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[reyn12]

Thanks guys👍

[kev.f]

If you measure H&N FTT 5.53 as ii have most are 5.6mm :-)

[pajj]

I've found SD's as good as anything.

[gary_c_ham]

You can get the FTT in 5.55mm too.

If you measure H&N FTT 5.53 as ii have most are 5.6mm :-)

[kev.f]

So I'm finally getting to the end of my original 5.6mm Eley Wasps which I use in mr BSA Airsporter. Well my question is what are you guys using as an alternative?? Cheers

Theres an interesting article that i came across online from the USA. Hardairmagazine measured and weighed a full tin of H&N FTT 5.3headed pellets - .22,s
Of the 503! pellets in the tin most were 5.55mm plus and quite a lot 5.6mm. I bought a digital vernier caliper and did the same tests myself.
They were 100% correct in their findings.
Kev

[clipper]

Don't know if this is any good to you - appears to have a small mountain of Wasp in both head sizes, along with a lot of other .22 pellet

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...69934848%22%7D

[TonyL]

My Mercury S likes the aforementioned Superdomes and H&N Excite Hammer.

[Retracted_Yeti]

Don't know if this is any good to you - appears to have a small mountain of Wasp in both head sizes, along with a lot of other .22 pellet

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...69934848%22%7D

Those are Bisley Wasp's would make a nice backstop.

Cheers.

Roy.

[clipper]

Those are Bisley Wasp's would make a nice backstop.

Cheers.

Roy.

I guess that's a no then.... Having kept myself pure all these years and stuck to .177 (with a brief, but tempestuous and expensive affair with .20, the 'other' calibre) I have never used .22

[DM80]

Maxima power force pellets from Henry kranks work brilliant in bsa and webley tap loaders also in older break barrel Mercury's meteors etc, they are a standard 16 grain round head similar to the jsb exact pellets, they are good quality and a very good fit in tap loaders and in some guns even need to be seated slightly my own mk2 airsporter is doing a healthy 9.8ftb with superdomes/ HN trophys/superpoint etc, when I use the maxima pellets power is a consistent 11ftb and accuracy in excellent.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bbgpvxk7dSPEqziG9

Dave.

[Byronic]

Marksman .22 are back in production, according to my RFD who threw in a pack recently with the Airsporter Mk2 I just bought.
John Knibbs International on the label £8.95.
I have not yet tried them against my old stock pellets.

[harvey_s]

Those are Bisley Wasp's would make a nice backstop.

Cheers.

Roy.

Have you actually tried them Roy?... They are actually pretty good.