are there better pellets... without a doubt.... is my ability at 25 yards able to tell a difference..... nope....
Nice. My Sheridan 2260MB only likes 18.grn JSB's. My Benjamin Summit NP2 shoots crosman premier domes the best.
Thanks for the reminder... I need to stop by Wally-World on the way home and get some more CPHP for this weekend.Keep hoping one of these visits some CPUM'c will be in.
Quote from: Hoosier Daddy on June 24, 2016, 01:45:59 PMThanks for the reminder... I need to stop by Wally-World on the way home and get some more CPHP for this weekend.Keep hoping one of these visits some CPUM'c will be in.ive never seen CPUM in the stores here. I order them online and have shipped to the store for pickup. Usually arrive in a couple of days.
For some reason the crossman pellets seem harder than other pellets, I am not shure if it it be of the thick skirts or if it's because they use tin or antimony in there alloy like regular hard cast bullets? But they are def harder than pure lead like h&n. Those I can crush with my fingers the crossman are a lot harder to do that with
I've not gone thru the exercise as extensively as you did, but I do pay attention when a pellet is loose or tight, when all the rest have been fitting consistently tight or loose. I documented a groups tonight while shooting my Diana 34. I find it curious when a gun that costs $350 likes to eat inexpensive ammo....but I'm not complaining! Lol
I have to agree with most of what has been said about the Crosman pellets. On the average, I tend to think of them as a 25 yard pellet. Almost never the best pellet for a given rifle but good enough that their price makes them a good value. On occasion, though, they will shoot brilliantly. I lucked upon some 0.177 CPUMs (10.5gr) at Walmart once that would do sub-MoA ragged holes at 43 yards in my son's bottled QB. A few weeks had elapsed since I bought them and unfortunately when I went back and bought more, they didn't perform as well. So I took that as justification to try the single-die boxed variety. That didn't turn out very well, though. Lots of flashing and parting lines, and a wide variance in head size. I did some experimenting with sorting them and that tightened up groups but only about 1 in 5 was the "right" size and absent of molding defects so I decided it was just too much effort for the payback. I planned to contact Crosman and see about getting them replaced but ended up finding that the rifle grouped fantastically with Air Arms 8.4gr and 10.3gr so I just went with those and put the CPUMs on the shelf for chrony testing and tuning duty. Other times, with both .177 and .22 tins, I would get two distinct groups. Pretty darn good groups, too, just separated by maybe 1/2" - 3/4" at 25 yards. Repeatable, as though there were pellets from two dies in the tin. That has actually happened to me multiple times. I wonder if anybody else has seen this? I'm not much of an advocate of sorting these days, preferring instead to try higher quality pellets until I find the one (brand, weight, and batch)that groups best. But if you are willing to go through the effort, it can be a good learning experience. I'm certainly glad I've tried it. Just have to keep reminding yourself you're doing it for the satisfaction and the knowledge. After all, a hobby can be quite rewarding when your time investment is valued at $0 an hour.