Plastic pellets?!

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

hi everybody, i got these pellets given to me the other day by this crazy old guy i talk to at work

 

just wondered if anybody could identify them? there yellow with a lump of metal/lead in the end of them.

and would be nice to know what they weigh aswell i dont have any scales.

there .177.... 4.5mm?

 

also i was wondering will they deposit plastic in the barrels rifling?? will this have to be cleaned out before using lead ones again.???

 

i was going to do an accuracy grouping test type thing but havent had chance yet got 6-a-side soon

 

any ideas?? lol cheers

[paulus 26]

are they prometheus ?

[StevoSmith 147]

No matter mate whenever you change from one pellet type to another you should clean out your barrel that is a must......i think paulus has shown what i was thinking of...also as these pellets plastic skirts are quite hard i doubt much would be left in the rifling but always clean anyway

[Millet 4,497]

Had some when i was younger and if you can find them after the first shot you can use them again..

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

there near enough the same but these dont have pointy metal, there flat.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

They are the worst things inveted for shooting ever! totall rubbish.

 

For gods sake stand well back if you fire them,, the damn thing will ping about for1/2 hour bouncing of every surface, lethal

 

Bin em! lol

[Millet 4,497]

They do make the rifle more powerfull though..the one's i used to get would go through a paint tin but the lead one's would only go through one side..

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

haha sounds fun

[Millet 4,497]

Seriuosly though they are shite mate..you will probably be lucky if you can get 3in grouping at 30yrd's..

[paulus 26]

Seriuosly though they are shite mate..you will probably be lucky if you can get 3in grouping at 30yrd's..

better to use them a few at a time in a catty

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

my mate never shuts up about how good his home made catty is, apparently it wil drop anything hahhaha muppet mite give them to him lol

[Phantom 631]

THROW THE FECKING THINGS AWAY QUICK!

 

Seriously

 

I had them "Recomended" to me by Old Man Hutcinson for my low power co2 pistols!

Even at the low velocity these pistols chuck out the pellets, the plastic/polythene melted to the rifling (co2 freezes as it vapourises), after the 1st shot I could see strings of ultrafine black polymer puffing from the barrel!

 

Took me a bronze brush to get the sh!te off the lands and groves!

I made the foolish mistake of firing all 8 shots from the clip!

 

That was/is my ONLY TOTAL MUPPET moment!! Use them at your own risk! The flat headed ones are the worst of all (yep mine were the flat headed ones, still got hundreds of them in .177 and my lad got me 4 boxes of the .22 domed/semi-pointed ones for xmas a few years ago, they remain un-opened!

 

 

Seriuosly though they are shite mate..you will probably be lucky if you can get 3in grouping at 30yrd's..

 

More like 3 pellets in a meter group!

 

Tony

Edited March 29, 2012 by Phantom

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

hahahaa

 

when i first laid my eyes on them i thought they would be a total f ing joke.......

 

but i never expected them to be this fun

 

wont be going through my barrel!! like i said il let my mate use them for his catty!

[socks 32,253]

The worst plastic types ever wee the ones that came with a plastic case a pellet and an applicator with which you had to pu the plastic cup in then the pellet close the applicator so the pellet was encased then using the applicator load your gun ....Mehta a fukcing palava and their accuracy was shit ...............

[AngryHan 4]

No matter mate whenever you change from one pellet type to another you should clean out your barrel that is a must......i think paulus has shown what i was thinking of...also as these pellets plastic skirts are quite hard i doubt much would be left in the rifling but always clean anyway

Do you clean with a rod, or those cleaning pellets?