Crosman Premier Piranha, .22 Reviews

They're affordable and available just about everywhere that sells pellets.

I would make them accurate and improve their terminal performance.

They just didn't group out of the dragonfly mk2. It'll stack destroyers at 30 yards but the piranha was 3-4 inches at the same distance. The piranha's I recovered from small game didn't deform whatsoever. Makes me wonder what the point of the toothed hollow point design is. Maybe I just didn't have the velocity needed for expansion.

I bought a tin of these because they looked cool. I generally shoot 14.3 grain Crosman hollow points, so the same weight appealed to me. Ran them out of a break barrel Gamo wildcat whisper with stock scope. Noticed a family of nutria by my creek. 2 single shot kills at 10-15 yards on the ones on the ground, the third was swimming away at about 15 yards, it was swimming upside down and thrashing after the first shot so it took a second mercy shot to dispatch it. I find this round to seem to kill the 10 to 15 lb. nutria quite efficiently compared to the round nose or hollow points of similar weight. I will definitely buy these again.

500 per tin

Was advised by someone from my local city government that they would like me to help with nutria population on my property. Check with local jurisdiction before you remove pests.

Very consistent in my Gamo rifle

good stuff

My Crossman pistols like these pellets. Very accurate.

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These pellets are clean. There is almost no residue on your fingers.

They didn't jam in my barrel. That's about it. Something about the serrations in the nose of the pellet I guess. I have tried them in my Benjamin Steel Eagle and I get like a shotgun pattern. I shot the Crosman Premier hollow point and or dome pellets (they are all the same weight and basic design) with fairly good accuracy. The Piranha just doesn't want to shoot strait. I tried them also in .177 cal. and the same thing. The "teeth" in the nose are dull and probably the reason they shoot so wildly. ( Just my guess ) Some guns may like them but both my rifles ( Crosman Nitro Venom Dusk .177 and Benjamin Steel Eagle .22) really don't like them.

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I will not buy them any more. You can try them in your rifle or hand gun if you want and get your own results but, in my opinion they are junk. I wouldn't even use them for general plinking. I wouldn't know where the pellet was going.

Price vs piece count. If you are just shooting cans, bottles, whatever, then this is the cheep round to buy. Not as good as the Crosman dome or hollowpoint pellets as far as accuracy is concerned. Think it must be the design of the face of the pellet, those rough spots, and air channels got to be playing havoc on the pellet at greater range. I can 3/4" hole hollow points and domes at 50 yards. The best I can do is 2 to 3" groups with the piranha.

leave the roughness off the front of the pellet, or at least knock the lead bulges off. Maybe change it to more of the hades design. OR better yet. cover the air-grabbing rough front with some wax to smooth it out.

going to try and smooth out the front of a few pellets and put a drop of wax on them to see if the shot group tightens up any at 50 yards. Right now would be scared to shoot squirrels or pest birds at any range with these as I can't predict where they are going to hit.

I was shooting the GAMO RED FIRE 22 CAL PELLETS,and the tips kept breakong off in the tin and they cost way too much so i bought me a tin of THE CROSSMAN PREMIER PRANNA 400 CT i just tried them out in my GAMO MAGNUM 22 CAL rifle and they shot superb i didnt even have to re adjust the scope any at all hole to hole @ 25yards i will for sure hunt Squirrels this up coming season i would recommend these pellets to anyone i have switched for good now

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Quality, very few damaged pellets. They punch big holes through spray paint cans

If you could make em more accurate. I think it's the design. Looks cool, but isnt smooth and doesn't move through the air as well as regular HP pellets

These didnt do well in my diana magnum break barrel. They only did okay in the Benjamin Marauder.

Screw on lid. Made in USA. Weight. Accuracy. Sawtooth Hollow Point design. No damaged pellets.

Increase tin count to 500.

I shot this pellet with my Umarex Octane, none No-Shox, on two separate days. On 1/13/2020, a 5 shot chronographed: 773, 771, 768, 776, 768 fps, averaging 771 fps. 48 degrees. On 3/3/2020, a 5 shot chronographed: 787, 795, 790, 789, 795 fps, averaging 791 fps. 52 degrees. Accuracy test was conducted at 3 inch Birchwood/Casey stick on targets, 90 foot distance. After taking 3-5 shots for zeroing in, I hit the 3 inch targets well within the 3 inch circular targets perimeter. I recommend this pellet, and would consider purchasing this item again. Accuracy tests were conducted without my Predator bench, but with the fore stock resting on my deck railing, my Octane mounted at my arm. Get a chronograph. Woodys World.

Screw on lid. Made in USA. Weight. Accuracy. Sawtooth Hollow Point design. No damaged pellets.

Increase tin count to 500.

I shot this pellet with my Umarex Octane, none No-Shox, on two separate days. On 1/13/2020, a 5 shot chronographed: 773, 771, 768, 776, 768 fps, averaging 771 fps. 48 degrees. On 3/3/2020, a 5 shot chronographed: 787, 795, 790, 789, 795 fps, averaging 791 fps. 52 degrees. Accuracy test was conducted at 3 inch Birchwood/Casey stick on targets, 90 foot distance. After taking 3-5 shots for zeroing in, I hit the 3 inch targets well within the 3 inch circular targets perimeter. I recommend this pellet, and would consider purchasing this item again. Accuracy tests were conducted without my Predator bench, but with the fore stock resting on my deck railing, my Octane mounted at my arm. Get a chronograph. Woodys World.

Everything!! These are a very nice compromise between weight and speed. They are VERY accurate out of my Benjamin Varmint NP, with consistent groups of less than 2 inches at 30 yards. At 60 yards we have consistent groups of 4 to 6 inches, although the drop is significant by that range.

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Out of 1,000 rounds, I have found precisely 4 that did not fit well enough to fire accurately... 3 sub-caliber, one super-caliber.

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I personally could not get these to load easily from a pellet pen. I placed the pen as squarely as possible over the breach, but the cut tip apparently kept the pellet from loading correctly. After attempting a load with the pen, I always had to use my finger to press the pellet entirely into the chamber. I do not have this problem with any other style of Crossman or Benjamin pellet, just the Piranha.

I was loading these into a .22 Benjamin Titan NitroPiston air rifle.

Was the weight 14.3 gr. This weight and overall shape was very comparable to the crossman premier hollowpoint pellets I was already using. Both I found very accurate.

Nothing. An effective product!

I was using these pellets extensively with my RWS mdl 54 king air rifle. With a zoom scope, I was able to effectively hit & kill large blackbirds at 85, and up to 110 yards.
However, with small game, these pellets had too much expansion to make an effective kill. For small game I would recommend a domed or pointed pellet.

I watched a Youtube video about Crosman Premier pellets. I decided to try these in my Benjamin NP2 Trail. I was very pleased with the quality of the pellet as well as the accuracy. I also shot these in an RWS 48 with similar results.

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Shred tip is a wonderful design as the rifling of the barrel twist it, once it impacts its Target it drills itself into it. Brutal on small game.

Longer skirt I've had some flyers and I think that may have a little bit to do with it.

If you don't need absolute Precision such as Skenko or H& N's this is a good everyday working man's hunting projectile.

Pretty accurate for what they are, weight and consistency is good, Plenty of these in a tin.

Nothing really.

I bought a tin of these when I saw them at the local Wally world. They looked like a gimmick, but I figured I'd try them because they were inexpensive.
I was shocked at how accurate these pellets were out of my Crosman 1322 and Titan GP. Way more accurate than the premieres. My 1322 especially likes them.
They also flatten reliably on a steel target, so lead won't travel too far from where they hit, Which is great if you're trying to be green and are collecting your spent lead to prevent contamination. While these may not be the best pellet out there, some guns actually like them, and it's a good mix of cost/accuracy if you're target shooting or plinking. Just sharing my experience with these, YMMV

My rather unscientific testing procedure is to fire them from a prone position about 10 yards away, the test material is plasticine clay, great for giving a worst case scenario for expansion/ penetration These pellets expanded rather underwhelming to around .25-ish while retaining a truncated "mushroom" shape, the star shaped hollow in the head allowed the lead to expand smoothly and retain shape, but not expand well, compared to the following; RWS Super-H; 100% head seperation from body, a lead ring and a solid wadcutter Predator Polymag; overexpands to almost a lead ball Newman Crow Magnum; expands to a .35 caliber wadcutter flathead, does not mushroom This is when shot from my Benjamin Trail NP2 .22

This is a gimmick pellet, doesn't do much better than the standard Crosman hollow points, they are designed to catch airgunners attentionnby looking "cool" on the tin, the pellet pictured on the tin has a much "sharper" looking hollow point cavity than the actual pellets, the actual hollow cavity is shallow and dull

Save your money and go with the proven hollow points

not to much

make it accurate

my results are with my guns , they may work better in yours. i shot 7 different brands and weights of pellets jsb, crosman, h&n. from 13-25 gr. these piranha pellets were by far the most inaccurate/wild of all by a good margin. i shot them from a hammerli 850 magnum and a benjamin mayhem np2 sbd

My Marauder loves these. Most accurate pellet yet ( and I've put approximately 10 different types through it).

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