RWS Super Dome

Yep I'd say your barrel ain't a fan of rws.
Are you going to stick with exact for close range low power, seems they will do the job or go ftt?
I've always had pretty good results with ftt in my guns. Never the best but always up there.
Is it an advantage for you to have a lighter pellet at close range?

That’s a good group at 50m 👍🏻

Managed to get the .25 out into some open space today and test out the RWS Super domes…

🙈

I’ll post some pics later this evening.
Tested on power level 2 at 20yards, (the super domes at power level 2 were extremely consistant over the chronograph) horrible group at 20y. The JSB’s and the FTT’s both out performed the super domes.
Power level 3 at 25y, horrible. The JSB exacts were a one hole group.
Power level 5 at 35y, same story, superdomes were horrible and JSB, one hole.
Isn’t that so weird! They were super consistent through the chrono, much more consistent then the JSB’s through the chrono, but I guess the proof is in the pudding 😂😂😂

An interesting side note on .25 pellets is that I was doing a similar test (looking for the most accurate pellet) at power level 1, which is about 2.3FPE, depending on pellet weight.
I was compairing the JSB exact 25.4gr and the H&N FTT 20gr.
At 10y the JSB’s were ok, nothing special but usable. 5 pellets, 2 small separate holes.
I then tried the FTT’s at 10yards. First 5 shots were all over the place. 🙈
Next 5 shots were one ragged hole 😳
And the next 5, and the next 5 after that.
I guess there is some truth to the “different pellets need to lead in” theory 🤔

I'm personally of the view, after pellets ive weighed and sized, then watching videos of people doing the same thing with same brands and pellet types in England, that we don't get the same quality pellets in nz.
The consistency seems much higher there for tins of AA, jbs etc. That I'm assuming it is due what would be essentially a very small market in comparison to overseas.
The other thing I've noticed when checking pellets is quite often I'll get patches pellets within the tins that are out of spec.
Like they add a few from the dyes (dies? However it's spelt) that are maybe starting to wear slightly and distribution in small numbers through the tins is a way of getting more use out of dye before it has to be replaced.
This a conclusion I've come to and are not claiming it is fact.
I should get a few tins sent from England to compare but probly won't.
I wrote to AA after a particually bad batch of AA heavy that were all over the place and said they may want to check the batch number quality control. Sent them pic of all the pellets sorted into head size and weight as done by vernier and scale.
The responce?
They had never heard of people measuring the head size before, just the weight and a vernier wasnt an acurate way to measure head size.
Still they would keep an eye out for more complaints on that batch number.
That says it all really. Verniers are one of the tools you use for checking dies for tolerance, therefore must be accurate enough for checking pellets( I've made a few dies back in the day for injection molding) There is no way hell that they being a English company making top line guns, used in compition arnt aware of how pellet fussy air gun shooters can be. Especially for target shooting.
But dont get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of AA deablos and have used them for both sig in 177 and tx in 22. Will be running some in the weihrauch in the future for testing.
But that reply just made me more suspect my conclusion may be right.

Edited by kruzaroad - 19 May 2024 at 9:10am

RWS Super Field are a distance pellet of choice but not always available.