Jsb lead free

[angrybear]

Had to revive the thread,
I recently bought a scorpion .25 sub 12 off another member (what a super rifle ) & having tweaked it back up from the high 9's to 11.6-11.7 had a quick zero session this afternoon between showers.
While it doesn't seem at all pellet fussy, except Bisley Pest Control which it doesn't seem to like, it shot the JSB lead free single hole at 571fps although at 11.98ftlb a touch too close

[look no hands]

Had to revive the thread,
I recently bought a scorpion .25 sub 12 off another member (what a super rifle ) & having tweaked it back up from the high 9's to 11.6-11.7 had a quick zero session this afternoon between showers.
While it doesn't seem at all pellet fussy, except Bisley Pest Control which it doesn't seem to like, it shot the JSB lead free single hole at 571fps although at 11.98ftlb a touch too close

I'm sticking to JSB Exact King .25 lead pellets as our host has them at a very good price (and they are just as accurate as the .25 AA's), my Lightning barrel didn't like the lead free ones.

Pete

[angrybear]

Well the JSB's should be as accurate as the AA's because they're exactly the same pellet made with the same lead mix on the same machines with a normal JSB die, if you don't believe it watch the factory tour vid where they're asked.

I doubt I'll be using the lead free regularly, far too expensive, but it's nice to know they shoot so well.

[Black Beard]

They work fine in a HW barrel but are too expensive for target shooting. Probably fantastic for hunting due to flatter trajectory (and no one would get through a tin full on an afternoon hunting).

[angrybear]

They work fine in a HW barrel but are too expensive for target shooting. Probably fantastic for hunting due to flatter trajectory (and no one would get through a tin full on an afternoon hunting).

Actually not nearly as good for hunting, because they're so hard there's no expansion on impact.

[Black Beard]

I doubt you get much expansion at 12ftlb on any current .25 pellet unless you shoot them backwards. Even in .22 not many pellets really expand. With a .25 who cares though.

[look no hands]

Well the JSB's should be as accurate as the AA's because they're exactly the same pellet made with the same lead mix on the same machines with a normal JSB die, if you don't believe it watch the factory tour vid where they're asked.

I doubt I'll be using the lead free regularly, far too expensive, but it's nice to know they shoot so well.

Yes, I don't doubt that now, the reason I questioned it originally was because I read somewhere once that AA pellets where made especially for them to their own spec to suit their barrels (probably a marketing thing), so I always thought they where slightly different, also when I tried a .177 JSB tester tin and the AA's still seemed to group better than the Exacts? the RS's at the time where pretty damn close but after doing another pellet test with my Prosport recently the JSB groups have seemed to have tightened up a bit, now I did put a new shroud on the rifle which meant taking the barrel off, heating it up and so I decided to clean the barrel out whilst it was off, so whether that has anything to do with it I don't know, I've started buying .177 RS's now as our host has pretty good prices on them at the moment and are a lot cheaper than the AA's, anyway getting back to the .25 pellets, I also did a pellet test with .25 JSB's and they are just as accurate with them and are also considerably cheaper than the AA .25's, what annoys me is how Air Arms can charge more for their pellets when they are the same as JSB's? I suppose we are just paying for the name.

Pete

[RobF]

In .177 AA fields and Exacts are not the same pellet. I don't shoot any other calibres so can't comment. But for .177 the AA's are subtely but definitely different.

[angrybear]

In .177 AA fields and Exacts are not the same pellet. I don't shoot any other calibres so can't comment. But for .177 the AA's are subtely but definitely different.

Well in the vid they ask the JSB man & he says all the "badged" pellets they make are made with their normal lead, on their normal press, with a normal die there is nothing at all changed
the only difference is that they make the whole of a "badged" order on a single machine & die in one run.

[RobF]

Well in the vid they ask the JSB man & he says all the "badged" pellets they make are made with their normal lead, on their normal press, with a normal die there is nothing at all changed
the only difference is that they make the whole of a "badged" order on a single machine & die in one run.

Yes but some companies have their own die.