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Topic: How's the price on Pellets these days ?Posted: Yesterday at 1:33am |
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I got to thinking Im down to my last 5 tins of pellets, when convid popped up, lots of firearm ammo was sold
out, thinking with this fuel scam going on, shipping, freight etc could
be a reason prices going up and stocks going down. Ron young told me all day today he'd be placing
orders and posting them out and it appears quailty pellets could be hard
to come by in the future so if your needing any, nows the time to get
em while they're maybe avaliable. bought 15 tins of AA 10.34gr today $54 per tin, $540 a sleeve.. last time I bought a sleeve they were $32 a tin bought 6 tins of Cometa 10.34gr $36 per tin, $360 a sleeve. Hoping they'll shoot as good as the AA's, they used to in the past as I believe they both made by Jsb. That's all he had, no polymags in .177 What you bought lately and how's the pricing changed? anyone else stocking up while you can? |
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Air-arms Prosport .177 FAC
Optisan 10*32 Air-arms Tx200 Mk3 .177 FAC Hawke SW 8-32*56 |
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Myson
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Posted: Yesterday at 7:36am |
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Yeah - crazy prices these days Vault.
Just before I retired I bought 30,000 .177 and .22 pellets so I'm OK for now thanks... good to have a stock stashed away these days.
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-Ec
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Posted: Yesterday at 9:50am |
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I'm still trying to work out what pellets my guns like and will stock up a bit when I have settled on something for each gun. |
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Posted: 14 hours 47 minutes ago at 7:13pm |
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Spoke to Ron today he's secured more pellets so get them while you can except you Myson, your good to go. I just spent half my diff rear money on pellets, but had to make a choice. I think I need a sleave of predator polymags as well, prosport loves them.
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Posted: 10 hours 15 minutes ago at 11:45pm |
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When not available I move on to a different brand and do not look back.
JSB definitely out of favor with me, especially the .22 range. Post Covid RWS brand remained available and H&N were always on the shelf. Several brands have economy options and often they are indistinguishable. I will post some options. .177 comes into its own for target and plinking when looking at costs.
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Posted: 9 hours 54 minutes ago at 12:06am |
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I see baracuda match 10.5gr still cheap as, not in boxes anymore but i remember they were always a good performer. The tightest groups i ever shoot with my prosport were crossman 7.9gr but they werent great in wind at longer rangers at FAC power but also performed best over the chrony which surprised me. Predator polymags were great but $40 for 200 is to much as i can shoot 250 shots in an afternoon just for fun. Field target trophy were great in my diana 54. From memory prosport liked the cometa 10.34gr so im hoping the tx200 does also as it shoots the AA10.34gr well. I shoot to kill not target level accuracy but i know if it stacks 5 pellets at 20m and 40m in a controlled enviroment then i should be good for rabbit head. I usually practise shooting at small felt dots size of a rabbits eyeball. Im not a member of trade me anymore but i see in the pellet section sometimes the suppliers only have a few tins avaliable of common proven pellets. The prices are sky rocketing. I remember when .22lr subs were $56 a brick of 500, now around $130 for 50 rnds Pellets going the same way |
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Posted: 3 hours 41 minutes ago at 6:19am |
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Jsb exact jumbo heavy 34 bucks a tin.
Just got another 6 tins on top of others have brought recently. Ukraine has over night taken out two main supply lines of russian fuel that goes to ports and central Russia, Ukrainian under prolong attack at moment. Trumps war on iran is not going to end soon. So apart from fuel issues, there is also these wars. They need ammo and that i believe is going to cause a spike in lead prices as well. (My theory not fact) All ready have stock pile of pellets guns like and secondary pellets. Not quite as extreme as some of you. I work it at if one in three shots is a kill (which would be a horrible kill rate) got well over a thousand meals of small game. Spare seals and springs just as important. Supply lines arnt a certain thing depending on how it all plays out. Prices will keep going up for the near future for sure. I'm definitely looking at small game as my protein source as prices rise. Bummed out no possums on farm. Still up there in top 3 small gane meats for me, for springer air rifles. |
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Posted: 2 hours 23 minutes ago at 7:37am |
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I've got several different pellets to pick up today with the gun I got off Kruzaroad (Thanks!!) and, if any of them are more accurate in the Gamo, I'll buy 5000 of them. Otherwise, It'll be the Hades for the .22.
As forcost, compared to rim and centrefire, it's not a genuine concern for me, despite the increases lately. I've put 100 pellets through 2 different rifles in two weeks and that's cost less than a hundy for a whole lot of fun.
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Posted: 2 hours 3 minutes ago at 7:57am |
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I'll be suprised if one of those brands don't do better than the hades.
Over distance in particular. If you don't find a better pellet in those ive got some some jsb/commeta exact in the 16gr range i can send a handful down of. I have a thousand or so as a secondary pellet for the hw Ive kept aside as were the most consistent tins of pellets ive come across for weight and size. Hw loved them haven't tried them in other guns. |
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-Ec
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Posted: 47 minutes ago at 8:40am |
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As a recent airgun addict I'm still working trying to find work out what works best in my guns. Takes me a fair bit of testing because half the "gatherings" of pellets are a problem between the trigger and the ground. Both my .22 rifles shoot well with 14.7 Webley Accupell and OK with Stoeger 15.74 - both of which are a mid range price. My 30 cal Hatsan shoots well with JSB and FX 44.75 - currently I'm using the JSBs. This gun also shoots OK with Poly mags and H&N 50 grn slugs. Ive only tried JSBs in my little 177 but have some Accupells on the way from Ron Young to try. As for my pistols - the 177 Mark 1 shoots OK with both JSB and Gun City wad-cutters and the .22 Senior actually seems to shot OK with Gamo wad-cutters. I'm mostly a pinker with a bit of pest control. I don't do a great deal of plinking with the Hatsan as it will destroy most of my spinners. I do regularly put a few shots at paper, tin cans or plaster of Paris figures to keep my eye in - there is a group of turkeys that have started to come down my end of the road that I will use the Hatsan to sort out - I missed one with the Gamo two days ago - grazed across the top of its back as it run away. I do put a lot of rounds through all my other guns at time need to build up a stash of suitable pellets incase supplies become difficult.
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Grey Kiwi
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Posted: 17 minutes ago at 9:10am |
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If it's any help re pellets...I've bought the R10 from here...and they have a good variety of Field/Hunting pellets too.
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