Page 6 - Beeman Crow Magnum, .22 Reviews

These are my favorite Beeman pellets. They shoot very well in my Evanix PCP. I like the unique design.

Too pricey

Made for the more powerful air guns.

These pellets look cool and are in beautiful shape.

Make the lid to screw on to keep the contents from spilling out.

These pellets did not group well in my Beeman R9. Maybe in another pellet rifle they will do better.

Pure lead projectile, quality consistant throughout. Very accurate and performed well in several different air guns that I have.

I would have preferred this in a bulk package of at least 500 per tin or even a box full like Crosman FT's. I do pest control work and I use a lot of them. Other than that you really can't change or improve on this item as it is perfection just the way they are.

These should be renamed Rat Loads or even Listerine as it kills rodents on contact - I have never had a pellet that performs as deadly in a pest control application as these do. PERFECTION!

It's an excellent cost-to-amount per tin for target shooting, pest management (within the realm of 30 yards, or 98 feet), and awesome infliction of blunt damages to target areas.

Increase the amount of pellet per tin to 500 at least, and drop the price per pellet by $0.01 or $0.02, and replace the tin with cheap-hard plastic container with screw top (which is 1/4 the price of the tin itself but with stronger structure to support the pellet during shipping).

If you're pest managing, THIS IS THE BEST TO GO. Pest elimination within a 30 yards (90 feet) max radius on a calm day (with very light 5 mile per hour wind) is perfect and cheap. The trauma inflicted by this pellet is not something to laugh about. Here's the run-down: The pellet is excellent in knocking targets in a 0.05" or hole-in-hole grouping at 20 yards (60 feet), using the Benjamin Sheridan Super Streak 0.22. Rather than the 1100fps claimed velocity, it averages around 850fps during moderate humid days, to 940fps during perfect conditions (with very light wind). We use serveral type of chronos, to test both the pellets and the gun, which includes the JSP Predator (with the best grouping of 0.05"), and the Beeman Kodiak (with a 0.25" grouping). Add a bit of wind (5 to 8 mph), extend the range out to 30 yards (90 feet), and the accuracy goes up to a grouping of average of 2" or more, with the velocity drastically reduces from 850-940fps to 620-760fps. Extend the range up to 40 yards (120 feet), and you get an average 5" or more grouping, in the same condition. Anything beyond 40 yards, good luck in hitting your target no matter how much compensation you do. People always talk about expansion. We use the laser micrometer to test for the expanded pellet after shooting, both on hard surfaces such as wood, to soft target such as the dead pigeons and sparrows. The total expansion is no more than 20% in humid condition, and 35% in perfect conditions. But the skirt is a different story. The skirt expands beyond 100% after impacting into the birds' soft bodies. This may be due to the tremendous pressure exerted by the piston from the gun. Comparing to most guns, which exert enough forces to propel the pellet up to 600 fps, the Super Streak exerts the pellet to the speed of 1000 fps, close to twice the pressure level. Because of this, the resulting damages are unforgiving. []

Snug fitting, heavy, GREAT for small game! These things mushroom-out on impact and carry quite a wallup out of my Walther Falcon. These things pierced 1" plywood at 50 yards and absolutely blistered the exiting side of the sheet. Pellet size variation is nil. The CrowMags are quite consistent.

The container could use some threads. They're real easy to spill with its current smooth-open design.

You'll like these! They don't deviate much and are some hard-hitters... get yourself a tin and take em' for a test-shoot!

The most accurate pellet in my Walther Falcon Hunter. Very heavy and BIG pellet. Hits hard.

A can that stays closed?

I really like these. I am having great luck with them for accuracy. Wish the tin was a 500 count!

good tight fit in the loading port, slower speed, but great impact power. bought these for crow hunting but the season is not in so cant tell you about that just yet.

THE LID ON THE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think i have spilt more than i have shot.

more info when i use these in the field

Really do expand nicely. VERY accurate.

A lighter weight would be nice for slower guns.

I shot a piece of ham that was in the frig too long. It was 6" long and 4" thick. The CM out of a Benjamin 392 blew it apart. I penetrated all 6" but didn't have the energy to punch though the cardboard of the trap behind it. It expanded to .259". About 20% expansion. Beeman Silver Bear went through and smacked the trap so hard it smashed it up. If you want expansion and limited penetration this is the one to use.

This is just an absolutely awesome pellet. My RWS Diana 350 Magnum loves them! These pellets practically rip House Sparrows in half because they have so much power.

The lid on the tin these pellets come in is not tight fitting. Often, the lid will slip off and all of your pellets will pour out of it. Totally, not cool!

For anyone that owns a .22, this pellet is an absolute must have!

Nice size in .22 caliber and weight, one of the best hollow points on the market

Nothing

So far there is only a few .22 caliber pellets that are actually, how do I put this, bigger than standard .22 caliber pellets, meaning in length not diameter or they wouldn't be .22 naturally. These pellets, Eun Jin & JSB Predators are the few examples of bigger and deadlier pellets than the rest to hunt big game with. I still have some more types to buy like the Beeman Kodiaks for one but I promise you won't be disappointed in the Crow-magnums. I'm a hunter hunting bigger game than mice and birds and I keep several specialized pellets at hand for hunting, these are one of them and I love them, you will too I guarantee it.

This is high quality lead pellet, uniformed, hits hard, accurate and will literally mushroom on impact. I'd say hunters choice

A better tin with screw on would be nice

Buy this hunting, nothing else

1 shot kills with the CM's

A heavier CM for the more powerful PCP guns would be great. At higher velocity they fall apart when the victim is hit..., maybe this is good??? I would rather rapid expansion though:)

I also use the .177 in a TX200 and they are great 1 shot kills for small rodents, rats, etc. As always, same Beeman quality.

great shot out of my rws460 nice and heavy yet to shoot varmits

the push on tin lid always loose needs to be screw on, offer them in 500 rd tins

good pellet for the money

Love the shape, this pellet shot about a 1/2 group at 20 yards in the Beeman RS1. They have the knock down power I needed. With the added wieght of this pellet it penetrated much deeper then the diabolo I was using.

The tin needs to be a screw on not this slip on stuff

Just keep on shooting safe and have fun.

After shooting light weight .22 Silverbear pellets from my Beeman GS1000, the power transfer from the gun to these heavy Crow-Magnums pellets was unbelievable. Even though they flew much slower than the Silverbear, the damage inflicted was significantly more.

These pellets were much less accurate than the lighter Silverbear. I contribute this to the fact that they move slower, and so there is more transfer from the kickback of the gun to the pellet. C-to-C was 3" at 20 yards. In this case, I fault the gun more than the pellet.

Even though these pellets are designed for higher powered guns, they worked great for plinking in my CO2 pistol. I was able to penetrate targets that lighter weight pellets normally bounce off of. They made my pistol much more effective at a range up to 10 yards. Great fun!

-Uniformity of pellets -Nice expansion at close range -Hits hard at close range I gave this five stars because it does serve its intended purpose well.

A slightly deeper cup up front.

A bit more expansion is desireable. I am firing these from an RWS 460 Mag and they expand great but only at close range. I was shooting at crows at 75 yards; you could hear the pellet hit the bird hard but the bird did not drop. I am guessing lack of penetration at that range. But, within thirty yards, these pellets do very well and are lethal. Anything further than thirty yards I use my Kodiak heavy pellets.

huge pellet, the bigest and heavyest hollow point that i'v seen,and it surprised me how accurate it is, i mean really accurate, i shot the caps off of bottles with this pellet.

i would make a bigger tin so i can have more pellets

Huge hollowpoint, accurate to 25 yards or so.

Nothing.

These pellets drop rapidly due to the hollowpoint, but they really hit hard.