Quote Originally Posted by Bjacobs571 View Post
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.