Page 4 - Gamo Rocket .22, .22 Reviews

Great pellet. Used them in my Crossman Nitro Venom .22 Caliber Air Rifle. Great performance, Very accurate. I usually do not sight in my scope any less than 30 yards at dead center crosshairs so that I can have a variety of ranges with dots above and below the dead center of the cross hairs.

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Used them on dove and was taking them at 40 yards with head shots and was decapitating them. Shoots very well with a stock 950 fps air rifle. Thanks again Pyramid Air for the superfast shipping and superb service. Oh I we had 24 unboiled eggs set up at 30 and 40 yards and boy that was awesome. It was like I Putt and M-80 firecracker inside of the eggs. Sorry to all the chickens out there, but dang that was so fun.

Really awesome pellet does shoot through metal and dent really hard metals. Destroys any small game with a head shot with this Pellet.

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Try not to drop these pellets and being careless the copper tip will possibly fall out.

Great varment shot. Hard hitting and get's the job done.

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Buy the Gamo Rockets and you won't be dissapointed.

PENETRATION GETS HIGH MARKS AND, ACCURACY IS GOOD ALSO.

MORE PELLETS FOR THE SAME PRICE.

THIS AMMO HAS GREAT EXPANSION UPOM IMPACT AND THIS IS A GREAT HUNTING PELLET.

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very nice quality pellet

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These pellets have a good weight, accuracy, and impressive penetration out of a .22 caliber Remington Summit.

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These are one of the better pellets out there in regards to impact and penetration, while maintaining a decent degree of accuracy. I've had these pellets penetrate a 3/4" dried pine board, a scrap piece of sheet metal from a screen door, and two sheets of paneling, all in one shot. I was somewhat surprised in their performance, as I didn't intend to go through the paneling. These pellets deserve excercising a little more caution than other pellets. But, that's a good thing when you want that kind of performance!

Very stable ammo, looks pretty cool, performs great for me. Highly recommend this ammo.

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Penetration is not as good as you may assume. With my Benjamin is not doing better than other domed ammo.

They penetrate very deep and provide lotsa shock on squirrels. I usually aim for headshots cuz they drop em in their tracks. I bought 2 tins and i must of threw at least 75 pellets out due to disfigured pellets. The skirts were disfigured...But the ones i did shoot were very accurate with 1/4 groups @ 20 yards outta my remington summit. I blew huge holes right through tin cans and even obliterated 2 coke cans and one split in half while the other had a 4 inch crack on the entry side...but the exit holes were pretty good too.

Better tins...very hard to open sometimes and the pellets seem to get disfigured a lot.

Great penetration and very accurate in my NPSS. I also like the windowed, threaded lid.

Drop the price (not likely for a two-piece pellet).

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the looks of the pellets and the tin normaly i will shoot enpty tins but i had to talk myself into shooting this one cause its just so darn good lookin lol.when i tested these i found them to be fairly accurate with .5in 5 shot groups at 25 yards but at 50 yards i could only get 1.5in groups. another thing i like was the expansion in ballistics gel they expanded nicely the cup that holds the ball opens up and flatens out makeing it very large and deadly,and the ball would continue on for another 2-3 inches.

i would put alittle more in the tin for the price,also i found little mold markes on the sides i dont know if its bad enough to afect accuracy or not.

alot of people may think these are just good for penetration but i found that they only penetrate about the same depth as crosman pointed,however these will penetrate harder objects.i think they will be good for small game but havent tryed that yet and plinking with these could be unsafe if your not carfull they do ricoche.please shoot safe and have fun(i.e .safety glasses)

Me back again. Just tested these Gamo Rockets in .22 cal. First, I must say that either I got a real good tin, or some other reviewers got bad ones. I have already used these in .177 and they were very uniform. The .22s were too. No malformed pellets at all. I even broke out a 5x magnifying glass. The penetration was what I was expecting, exceptional. The accuracy was as good as any pellet I've used, though I have only tested these out to 20 yards. As I often put 2 pellets in the same hole, it is only a matter of time before I will confirm what I already know ... these thing are accurate. I am using a Beeman SR2 with a Beeman 4x scope and will soon tst these at 30 yards ( my limit for now).

A few more in the can, or bigger containers. They are a little expensive, but the best penetrator on the market, I do believe. I will kep a few hundred on hand at all times.

OK, the hard to open can proceedure one more time. Lick both palms, place can between palms, press hard and twist.

These shot better than I expected, and did well at long range. My RWS M.48 seemed to like them.

Less of a visible mold seam would be nice. And for such a small quantity of pellets, it would have been nice if all of my pellets were of the caliber I ordered, instead of some .177 rockets being mixed in. 10+% of the wrong size from a factory sealed tin is not cool.

I shot these out of a Gamo Whisper, and Walther Falcon Hunter. The impact is great, and they were grouping well (after some trimming). The screw on lid for the tin, why cant we get those more often.

Quality control is needed, I spent a good bit of time trimming the wings off of these. Another thing was some of these would fall into the chamber and others needed a good push. I will not be getting these again.

If Gamo could get the quality control going on this design it would be a nice plinking pellet.

Only tested in Falcon Magnum with gas spring so far... The bb definitely splits and creates its own "wound" channel. Mushrooming is a positive. They group... sort of... 1.5" spread at 30 yds (it was a bad day for me so take that with some salt). They come in wonderful screw or snap container (oddly I've seen both).

The bbs aren't always centered... that can't be good. There a lead flakes in the container... and sometimes on pellets. That can't be good either. The mold sometimes leaves a wing on the pellet where the mold is broke, also no a good thing but it only matters at extreme distances.

Try 'em. Aint like they cost that much. First... be aware that bb is not LEAD and will bounce of hard targets. If you are shooting a high power air gun that bb may be flying fast enough to damage or injure. Shooting through 1/4 inch wood at 33 yds the bb and lead create separate channels. I can't really verify this claim at the moment (different guns needed) but I think these are poor performers in .22... which suprised me because in .177 they are awesome.

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DONT BUY THEM i shot them out of a Gamo Wisper,Shadow Express,Bigcat and a Pumpmaster and i never got a good pattern, Or a kill shot i hit a black bird on a branch he fell go up and flew away. Buy a box of crossman Pointed pellets but dont waist your money on these they are horible.

The fact that they have a ballistic tip, (a bb) and are supposed to be good for hunting. I havent got much time to test these out of my falcon hunter, only the penetration, and i gotta say that these will be good for game hunting. And that there only 14.3 grains, which gives me good power. There also a hollow point,

Make them in a 250, or even better yet, a 500 tin.

U might or might not like them, but give them a try.

I bought these, having used the .177 caliber version, even though the smaller caliber version was only acceptable from an accuracy standpoint. Imagine my surprise when these .22 caliber pellets lobbed five inside 0.25" @ 25 yards! I thought it was a fluke, so I did it FOUR MORE TIMES in a row on the same target paper! These pellets certainly don't look as if they should do so well, but my gas spring Gamo CFX loves them.

Make the lid not so hard to unscrew. I quickly transferred these into an empty Crosman screw top tin to make them easier to get to.

These pellets clearly show mold lines, and that was what at first made me doubt their accuracy potential.
Don't let their looks deceive you, though.
Each air rifle shoots certain pellets well, so your mileage may vary from mine, but these startled me with how well they grouped.
One note of caution to anyone using these is that these pellets have a tiny steel BB in the nose, so you DEFINITELY do not want to shoot at hard targets such as steel pellet traps, rocks, and possibly even wood.
Don't do that, or, as they told the kid in the movie "A Christmas Story": "You'll put your eye out, kid!"
This is one pellet that really calls for safety glasses if you might accidentally strike a hard target.

wow,as good an idea as the .177 version.hard hitting for its weight,with superb penetration.

a little better moulding to reduce "flash" those annoying little ridges.

these WILL go through most sheetmetal targets,use caution when using.occasional bounce back from close or harder targets.

They look really cool and are accurate....and thats about it.

I had to debur almost half of these because they still had excess lead attatched to them.

Sometimes it was tough to close the bolt with these pellets in my Crosman 2250B. These are pretty expensive for what you are getting. Basically these are domed pellets. These were very accurate, hitting the bullseye time after time. These were nice to try ONCE but I dont think I'll be buying them again.