Page 4 - H&N Baracuda Match, .22 Reviews

Nothing about the current batch (90300, 14)

Like some other recent reviews, I have experienced a bad batch of these pellets. I ordered 4 tins. I have opened 2 of the tins, and tried about 30 pellets from each. My old stock of these pellets would slide right in my Talon SS with minimal effort, and provide 10-shot groups of 1/2 inches at 35 yards. These new pellets need to be forced into the breech (they fit tighter than the 5.53mm head size Baracudas that I have), and provide groups of no less than 2 inches under the same circumstances.

Avoid these pellets at this time.

I have two .22 p-rods and the is the best grouping pellet out of any I have tested. I did a dairy shoot last weekend and took several pigeons up to 80 yds.

Not much anymore. And I'm very, very sad to say that.

These pellets used to be the best on the market. Not anymore. I got five tins of these and only one was good. They need to do a better job at their manufacturing and sorting of their pellets. The head sizes are supposed to be a little bit bigger than the regular Baracudas, but they are not. I had a lot of them with a head size much smaller than what they are supposed to be and it causes them to drop about 10 inches low at 50 yards, yes 10 INCHES! These pellets are supposed to be more precise than the regular Baracudas but I have not found that to be true at all, and I've gone through a lot of all three kinds of the supposed "match" ones and the regular Baracudas are much more uniform in size and shape. I have had a lot of bad pellets from H&N lately, of the whole barracuda line. Including the Hunters and the Hunter Extreme. Even the Beeman Kodiak's are giving me a hard time now. Of those, I have had two bad tins out of about 8 that I've bought. What happened to this company?

I don't know what to say except, test them out as soon as you get them, so you can return them if they are bad. I like to stockpile pellets in case of a catastrophic event, so the 30 days to return them is up by the time I get to try those pellets that I have bought. Also, have a micrometer close by so you can see just how bad the size difference is before you go through 150 pellets trying to fingered out if the accuracy issue is you, your gun, or the pellets. In almost all of my cases with that issue, it turned out to be bad tins of pellets.

Bright Color, Neat little tin cup.

Like the "Field Target Trophy" I just reviewed - Everything. Garbage, folks.

Compared to JSB Jumbo Heavy, this stuff hardly stays on the paper.

Hard hitting, Great accuracy in .22 cal. Hatsan 95 Vortex.

Twist top lid, consistent quality, perfect weight for higher powered PCP rifles shooting above 35 FPE. Options for 3 different head sizes.

I recommend washing these pellets as there tends to be a lot of lead shavings.

The 5.51 head size shoots very consistent and accurately out of my Daystate Air Wolf on Hi Power. The 5.52 where almost as good and the 5.53 the worst.

These are excellent pellets. They are accurate and transfer a lot of energy to your target.

Make them just a little less expensive. Then people would buy more of them and everyone would be happier.

Best hunting pellet I have used.

Hits with a good deal of energy, will penetrate a soft pine 2x4 with my marauder!

Keep pellets the same, don't change whatever is involved in manufacturing this pellet, that makes it different from batch to batch !

At one time this was the most accurate pellet in my Benjamin Marauder, so I bought 5 more tins after my first 2 tins grouped under an inch at 50 yards. Newer batches of pellets now group 1 1/2 to 2" at 30 yards, not sure what has changed? I did have some of the original pellets that shot good, and sure enough they still kept under an inch at 50 yards !

they fit snug in my rws 350 mag, i've done as well as 1/4" ctc 5 shot groups at 30 yards, averaging about half an inch though, with these pellets. these are the ones i buy for that gun

1000 round container for cheaper would be nice

They are accurate and deadly on crow, squirrel, groundhog, rabbit and pigeon. Shape and skirt are very consistent. Flyers are very rare. Speed, hitting power and distance and accuracy are all superlative. Terminal ballistic performance is excellent, at least on the targets mentioned.

I would like to have a screw top tin.

Try them if you can. They really are very good pellets for killing small animals.

Very clean and well formed pellet. Shoots straight and accurate from my airforce talon.

Lower price

Pellet tin does not screw on and off, be careful not to dump accidentally. I use a rubber band, works fine.

Accuracy, piercing metal at 75 yds, cant wait for hunting season

Nothing!

Buy 4!

I like the uniformity of this pellet, clean, and hard hitting. It's not as consistently accurate as I was hoping, but it's racked up quite a few starlings and grackles. I'm shooting a .22 Marauder, and still looking for that 1 ragged hole group.

I wouldn't change anything about this pellet. The name speaks for itself.

In the future, anyone writing a review on a certain pellet, it would save so much time and money, to our shooting brethren if we would share the type and make of gun we are using. I know a lot are sharing this info, but it gets costly, and we get a lot more gun time in if we had our best performing pellets down!

JSB and H&N cant be beat, only pellets that see my Air arms or Weihrauchs.

Nothing!!

Grade A pellet

Very accurate for such a heavy pellet!

Very consistent in my Air Force Talon SS, .22 cal. Best groups and 50 yards. Very windy day, 15MPH G20 and still had 1.5 inch groups

Labeling the head diameter size on the tin. I don't think it was there, and these come in different sizes. I didn't pick up on that, and couldn't figure out why they were listed 3 times in website. Now I am not certain which one I bought.

Consistance and accuracy is great. Use them in my Benjamin trail NP xl 1100 and they give the best group free hand and bench shooting

Make more per container

You will be very happy with theses pellets if your getting the Benjamin trail NP xl in .22 get these pellets you'll be happy with them

uniform,heavy and hard hitting. I use these in my mrod with excellent results, great groups especially over 40yds very little drifting

bigger tins

Very nice clean pellets. Well shaped. Accurate.

nothing except the PRICE...ouch

These pellets are not a good pellets for my BSA gas ram. They are too heavy. They drop off quickly after 25 yards. They will work well in a more powerful gun, mines only 730 FPS with a 14g pellet. So I'm guessing only 600 FPS with these.. I would recommend for a stronger gun! Very nice pellets, just not for me.....

The new can is GREAT. Nestable (stackable) and a screw on lid. Finally a quality container for a quality pellet. I am a big fan of this pellet. Shoots really well out of my Marauder.

500 count cans.

This pellet seems to be a standard for the Benjamin Marauder. Generally in 5.52 or 5.53 head dia.