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Offline Star1pup

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.22 pellet advice
« on: December 19, 2006, 12:30:31 PM »
I now have my neat Benjamin .22.  How about some advice as to pellets for hunting squirrels.  I'm new to air rifle hunting and could use some help.
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2006, 04:02:55 AM »
Get various tins and see what shoots the most accurately in your air rifle. For hunting, I like domed pellets by Crosman, Beeman, and RWS. The wad cutters work well too. 
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2006, 04:38:30 AM »
I picked up some Sheridan (Crosman) domed pellets this morning and willo give them a try.
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2006, 11:07:22 AM »
this is just me but for tree rats at 30 yards with my 2200 i liked the DAISY .22 Max Precision Flat-Nosed, any .22 gamo, or a wadcut. Now many people say wadcuts are no good but, from my shooting the soft wadcuts work well in pumpers and give lots of shock and knock down power. I have used a lot of pellets and from my testing this is what i have found: a crow shot in the chest at 20 yards with a crosman pointed stay down for 30 sec, a crow shot in the chest at 20 yards with a dasiy wadcut stay down for 2 mins and a crow shot the same with a crosman wadcut was down for 3 mins and could not get up. I have killed squrrels at 30 yards with one shot to the head with daisy wadcuts and to me wadcut are good. One more thing crosman pellets are very hard and will pass thought a squrrel or crow.

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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2006, 03:06:51 PM »
I have a little less then 1/2 tin of RWS Super point The cound is around 215 or so out of 500 That I no longer need

I could use some .177 pellets
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2006, 11:20:12 AM »
.177 is a hard one because you have less power and  the smaller .177 will pass thought a lot of game. Ii would look at a round noise or a soft pointed.
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2006, 12:33:11 PM »
the rifle I am getting is a .177 gamo varmint hunter. What I was doing with the 22 cal. pellets I had a 223 contender and bought an adapter that lets me use a 209 primer to shoot a 22 cal pellet out of the rifle
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2006, 10:37:15 AM »
if you can get the gamo Rocket or Tomahawk for your gamo varmint hunter but don't ever get the Raptor because they eat up the rifleing.
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2006, 11:37:36 AM »
JSB's in both .177 and .22 are some pretty decent pellets.  I use both and wouldn't use anything else.  They just seem to shoot the best in all my rifles.
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2007, 06:15:56 PM »
 I have a Airforce Tallon SS in 22 cal and I would have to agree that the JSB predators are tops! but at $12 +  per 200 you pay the price, they are really cool looking to.    www.predatorpellets.com
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Re: .22 pellet advice
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2007, 08:52:17 AM »
Another vote for daisy max precision flat nose. The flat nose just seems to hit with more whomp. To each his own, I reserve domes for tougher critters.  Another good one is crossman premier hp, these are pretty cheap, shoot well in my rifles and give me an extra 15 yards for hunting due to less deflection. But the flat tips are perfect out to 30 or 35 yards. With the deflection, I guess once it gets under a certain velocity it starts to porpoise.
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