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Shoots great in my Crossman 2240

More per tin

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price, and style

nothing, no complaints

my Crossman 2240 digest these like they were meant for it.

Average groupings at 30 yards for me.

Softer lead if possible to conform to my rifle better.

Every rifle is different. Yours may like these. For me they were about average.

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Very inconsistent sizing compared to the other pellets I use. Not very accurate through my Hatsan 125 sniper .22! The crosman domed shoot way better than this junk. Wish I had used my money on something else.

Found the pointed pellets gave me more range and accuracy than the hollow points.

I would like to see a tin of 500 instead of 175.

Value for the money and accuracy at shorter ranges of from 25 to 75 feet in my 2240 and 2289. Basically one hole groups size of a large pea at 25' with a scope and 3/4" average at 75'. Based on weighing 1003 of these pellets, I could not give them a higher rating as I feel a 14.3 gr pellet should not have any weighing more than 14.5 grains or less than 14.1 grains. Based on these results detailed below, I will use the 14.6 grain pellets for accuracy testing, sighting in guns with this pellet, and hunting and the rest for plinking or practice. Now that these have been sorted, I intend to do more accuracy testing to determine if the sorted pellets give better groups, particularly the 14.4 and 14.6 grain pellets.

Weight consistency! Which translates to fliers at 50 yards and beyond! With this pellet in my Discovery, 10 shot rested groups are around 2.5 - 3" at 50 yards, with about 2 fliers out of 10, with most shots being in a 1.25" or smaller cluster. So I decided to weigh all 1003 pellets I had on hand to discover why. All pellets were weighed on a DigiWeigh model DW-100AS digital scale. Apparently this scale is only capable of resolving a max of .2 grains as all weights were in even increments. Testing procedure: Pellets weighed on scale. Occasionally, a pellet would fluctuate rapidly between two weights and that was resolved by weighing up to 10 times to establish the correct weight. Four readings the same consecutively resolved, or if 5/5 split on the weights the pellet was put in the lower weight category. I would have given a higher rating but for the results below.

A total of 1003 pellets were weighed per above procedure. All weights ranged between 14.0 - 14.6 grains as follows:

400 pellets @ 14.6 gr for 39.88%

428 pellets @ 14.4 gr for 42.67%

158 pellets @ 14.2 gr for 15.75% AND

17 pellets @ 14.0 gr for 00.169%

So average pellet weight was 14.44 grains, and 417 pellets, or 41.58% of them vary by +/- .3 grains of the manufacturers stated weight!

In my opinion, even though these are inexpensive pellets, a variation of more than +/- .2 grains from stated weight is unacceptable! Certainly, 14.0 grains and 14.6 grains is unacceptable to me for a 14.3 grain pellet. No wonder I get fliers at 50 yards from my Discovery. BTW, the same gun with Beeman Kodiaks at 50 yards prints <3/4" ctc. groups every time from a rest! I have gotten several <.4" ctc at that range with the Kodiaks!

So in summary, this is a good inexpensive pellet for <25 yard shots on squirrel or rabbit size or larger game, but not for longer ranges!!

extremely accurate in my 22 diana 34 with vortex kit.

maybe make it just a little heaver for harder hitting

the crosman hollow points are just as good and don't cost as much.

hard to answer, what is there to say about a chunk of lead

find some other type of container because it can be very hard to open, i used a vise and pipe wrench.

These are excellent shooting pellets and at 25 to 30 yards are dead on target.

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They are good for close up say 25 yards hunting....

Still breaking in my gun but these pellets are very consistent giving me tight groups.

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