cslinger
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I have always said to make sure you shoot quality pellets through your airguns because bottom barrel cheap stuff will likely not give you good results.
I wanted to also say that even decent pellets may not do well in a given gun. Case in point......
The VAST majority of my air rifles will shoot Crosman Premier hollow points fairly well. Crosman Premiers are fairly decent pellets that are widely available. I do, however, have one air rifle that does HORRIBLY with CPHP's.
I was plinking with my .22 HW35e and I know this thing doesn't care for CPHP's but wasn't thinking and I grabbed my "bucket o' CPHP". First shot at around 18 yards...DEAD center bull. Maybe I was wrong, maybe this wasn't the gun that didn't like them. Next shot......WAY high and right......next WAY high and right about an inch or so from the other. Hmmmmmm I guess I wasn't wrong. I grabbed a tin of H&N Field Target Trophy and.....center bull, center bull, center bull.....etc.
The moral of the story is some pellets can be wildly inaccurate in a given rifle. If you have a new air rifle and find it to be inaccurate or inconsistent even if you are using decent pellets, give another pellet brand a try. You may find your particular gun hates X pellets even if everything else shoots them well.
Just food for thought.
Crappy picture to illustrate. The two holes high and right were CPHP. The other 15 or 20 shots in the center are 1 lucky CPHP and 14-19 H&N FTT. Gun used was an iron sighted (rear diopter) HW35e in .22
I wanted to also say that even decent pellets may not do well in a given gun. Case in point......
The VAST majority of my air rifles will shoot Crosman Premier hollow points fairly well. Crosman Premiers are fairly decent pellets that are widely available. I do, however, have one air rifle that does HORRIBLY with CPHP's.
I was plinking with my .22 HW35e and I know this thing doesn't care for CPHP's but wasn't thinking and I grabbed my "bucket o' CPHP". First shot at around 18 yards...DEAD center bull. Maybe I was wrong, maybe this wasn't the gun that didn't like them. Next shot......WAY high and right......next WAY high and right about an inch or so from the other. Hmmmmmm I guess I wasn't wrong. I grabbed a tin of H&N Field Target Trophy and.....center bull, center bull, center bull.....etc.
The moral of the story is some pellets can be wildly inaccurate in a given rifle. If you have a new air rifle and find it to be inaccurate or inconsistent even if you are using decent pellets, give another pellet brand a try. You may find your particular gun hates X pellets even if everything else shoots them well.
Just food for thought.
Crappy picture to illustrate. The two holes high and right were CPHP. The other 15 or 20 shots in the center are 1 lucky CPHP and 14-19 H&N FTT. Gun used was an iron sighted (rear diopter) HW35e in .22
