Page 3 - Gamo .177 Cal, .177 Reviews

They shoot good out of several of my pistols. Good penetration and fairly accurate.

Maybe some with copper coating ...

Just like the .22's they are handy to load in the dark or with cold fingers. Cheap enough to shoot alot if you like them ...

A novelty! Really cool to have. I use them for lots of things. Not too accurate, but fun and useful to have (read below)

Nothing, I think they're great.

So, sometimes when a CO2 bb pistol has an out of whack magazine (guys you know what I'm talking about, you load up the mag with bbs and then they spill out all over the place when you release the spring clip?)... well, you can load the mag minus one from full capacity. The nature of the lead and variety in size makes it perfect to top load into the mag and prevent the rest from spilling out. I've used this method on a few different guns and there's not ever a jam or a misfire. They are heavier and hit a lot different than a steel bb.

Hit harder than steel BB's.

Improve ball size consistancy. Some balls are slightly larger than others.

If using these balls in a Dan Wesson cartridge load revolver, don't force balls into bullet tips as the slightly larger balls will enlarge BB seat.

Hit a bit harder and penetrate deeper than standard BB's.

The size of each lead ball should be the same size as regular BB's. Some tend to be larger rather than smaller.

Less accurate than regular BB's.

Very accurate at 10 to 15 yard. I have not tried long distances. Not much deforming after hitting a can at 10 yards,Penetrated both sides and not much deforming.

Add a copper coating.

Good penetration power on thicker cans. Don't load in a crosman pellet clip. Use use BB port if there is one.

Something no one mentioned is that the solid lead balls out penetrate ANY other pellet in same caliber. I have tested extensively the other heavy pellets but the round lead balls always penetrate the most. I dispatch coons and foxes in traps on my chicken farm with .177 magnum pellet rifle and these round balls always penetrate the skulls and into the brain the best from nearly point blank distance.

I have not had the problem with them rolling out the barrel but if they did I would have to stop using as I am always pointed down. RWS 48 .177 and Daisy 1000 .177 rifles used.

I notice that some of the german round lead balls come in slightly different diameters... That makes me wonder exactly what the diameters of these are ? ? ?

Easy to load (Crossman 2300 S) , as accurate as pellets at 10 meters.

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These are heavy. They are 160% the weight of a steel BB. It's a nice alternative for .177 pellet guns and some BB guns.

Make them harder, such as adding antimony to the alloy, or plate them with copper.

These are soft. They will deform and jam in some guns. They seem to work better in rotary magazines than inline ones. They work fine in the Dan Wesson revolvers.

Screw closed tin. Fits the pedersoli .177 derringers well and are considerably cheaper then other brands.

Coat with copper. Tighter tolerance for size.

Nice alt. to costlier german made roundball pellets. Most pellets are uniform in size but occasionally you find an over or under sized one.

I can't like them. They are uniform and round, but too small for all my high powered springers!

They are too small! In my Viper, they roll about 8 inches down the bore before they tighten up, which doesn't say much for the barrel, I know, but if they were like .02 bigger I think they'd be great! In my Ruger pistol, they roll all the way out.

The .22s are great! Some of them are a little tighter in the bore than others, but they shoot well. The .177s..... too small!

I like the packaging, precise diameter, and price. These relatively inexpensive lead roundballs functioned perfectly in my UMAREX STEEL STORM. After I made a barrel change to get more power and speed, I needed a precision round lead projectile to match the new barrel. It needed to be .001" smaller than the new smoothbore barrel, and the GAMO round fit the bill exactly. Further,they come in a screw-top lidded can avoiding the irritating spills associated with pry-top cans.

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I like to add a few drops of TEFLON/silicon lubricant to the can to prelube the ammo.

Tin is screw on cap.

Quality control.

These are very inconsistent. I tried these in a P-17, DA 717,a Browning BM URX and my trusty RWS 9B. In every single gun at least half would roll out of the barrel while loading. Not worth buying and trying if you have a chance to blow a seal out. Bad stuff, do NOT buy.

Reasonable price for plinking ammo.

Make them equal size and weight!

Some are large and hard to seat, others fall out of sight in chamber on my Gamo Delta. They shoot low as compared to the Gamo Hunter pellets. Not a bad group with them if you sort sizes. Shouldn't have to though!

There is nothing more accurate than a round ball but there is also nothing less aerodynamic, A round ball will be accurate for as long as it's in the air but it looses energy very quick.

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These round balls are worth the $3.95 per can and if I were you I would get some for plinking instead of using pellets.

They are cheap compared with other round, lead ammo. The screw top tin is nice.

There are many deformed pellets per tin. Size also seems very inconsistent, some have to be pushed hard into the loading port while others roll right out of the barrel.

I bought these to use in an older Gamo P23. That gun has a rifled barrel and Gamo states in the manual that only lead BBs should be used. Shooting semi auto with this ammo is a lot more fun than single loading pellets. If you have a similar gun and want to shoot semi-auto these work ok.

kinda cheap.if you are using a soft pellet trap like a card board box with newspaper in it you could recycle your used pellets because these pellets dont realy deform . just make sure your pellet trap has a strong backing so that they dont go thought.

the quality i mean i know they cheap but atleast make them decent because these just are not accurate and i guess its because ive been shooting pcp guns and after using them in my co2 pistol (Px107)these just seem so darn lousy

buy these if you just wanna go mad and shoot things in semi auto or full auto with a co2 gun . but if you wanna shoot groups dont even bother.

These round pellet have very good knock power. Made a head shot and it took the head off. Using a Crosman G1 Extreme break-barrel w/3-9x32 scoop.

Make the rounds so they don't fall out of the barrel.

These rounds are very good if you're shooting up a tree, shooting at ground level, they fall out.

The weight is a good reason for these BB's

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They have hit power.

Well polished and accurate to size and accurate on paper when fired. ( compared to its steel counterpart)

Nothing bad really, wish I could find some of these that are coper plated so that they run through the magazines in my smooth bore pistols a little better.

Ok, so these lead BB's have no practical use for a PELLET gun but if you have a BB gun that has a smooth bore and is made for BBs not pellets then this product is a good alternative to steel BBs because of the increase in wieght and accuracy. Whatch out for jams when Useing these in magazines. They are lead and soft so if they get forced or pinched they will deform.

These seem to be a little larger, and fit the bore tighter, than steel BBs. In my rifles. They are much more accurate than steel BBs in my guns (but not as much as a normal pellet)--and I think they should hit approximately as hard as a domed lead pellet because of their mass. I like using these for a quick second shot because they are easier to drop into the chamber than a pellet which must be oriented correctly.

There are a few in each of my tins that were visibly defective, and I would expect better quality control from Gamo.

Do not try to use these in a magazine mechanism intended for for feeding steel BBs. They will often jam because of their size. Also, they sometimes feed more than one because they are obviously not magnetic and so can't use the magnet pick-up to feed one at a time. Load them one at a time like pellets. I have not tried these in any break-open barrel type spring-air rifles, and don't have an opinion on whether or not they would work in those guns.