Prometheus Pellets

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Cheers Moxy. I normally use Superdomes, just wondered about these, as I've never come across them before.

 

Dispatch with an air pistol...............................

What's wrong with dispatch with an air pistol? I've used a .22 hurricane for years to deal with small vermin in cage traps. A back to front RWS hobby usually does the job

[pianoman 3,587]

I read that these are a steel pellet within a nylon plastic skirt that somehow, gives them stability in flight as lead skirted diabolos do. Steel is a not very compliant or maliable material for making any kind of air rifle pellets. With some Weihrauch spring rifle barrels having a choked muzzle (so Weihrauch have said themselves, apparently) these will not do the crown any good. Steel pellets will not 'inflate' and conform to the rifling as efficiently with the charge of air as lead pellets do.

 

Whatever, avoid them like the plague! Your barrel was not designed for this type of pellet.

[Blackbriar 8,569]

 

Cheers Moxy. I normally use Superdomes, just wondered about these, as I've never come across them before.

 

Dispatch with an air pistol...............................

What's wrong with dispatch with an air pistol? I've used a .22 hurricane for years to deal with small vermin in cage traps. A back to front RWS hobby usually does the job

 

I meant the modern 6ft/lb pistols,mate.

[donnyc 1,203]

Shite

[redial 81]

 

 

 

Cheers Moxy. I normally use Superdomes, just wondered about these, as I've never come across them before.

 

Dispatch with an air pistol...............................

What's wrong with dispatch with an air pistol? I've used a .22 hurricane for years to deal with small vermin in cage traps. A back to front RWS hobby usually does the job

 

I meant the modern 6ft/lb pistols,mate.

 

Not many 6ft/1b pistols around so Iam informed. Edited November 9, 2013 by redial

[SimonC_Here 36]

 

 

 

Cheers Moxy. I normally use Superdomes, just wondered about these, as I've never come across them before. Dispatch with an air pistol...............................

What's wrong with dispatch with an air pistol? I've used a .22 hurricane for years to deal with small vermin in cage traps. A back to front RWS hobby usually does the job

I meant the modern 6ft/lb pistols,mate.

Not many 6ft/1b pistols around so Iam informed.

HW45? Alecto? Many of the Crossmans?

[thursodog 353]

Yep all the above and from my own experience with an accurate HW80 my best group at 30 yards was around a foot!!!

Pile of garbage

 

C

[charlie caller 3,654]

I remember using these back in the eighties, the steel head does not come into contact with the rifling, only the plastic skirt, I remember shooting the odd bunny and squirrel with them, but never bought any more, so cant have been too impressed, does anyone remember the sabo rounds that you used a pen type of afair to load the thing into your barrel? it was I think a .172 calibre copper jacketed bullet inside a plastic sabot case, they were bloody expensive but very good we all used them at one time and they were very accurate and killed very well.

[SimonC_Here 36]

I remember using these back in the eighties, the steel head does not come into contact with the rifling, only the plastic skirt, I remember shooting the odd bunny and squirrel with them, but never bought any more, so cant have been too impressed, does anyone remember the sabo rounds that you used a pen type of afair to load the thing into your barrel? it was I think a .172 calibre copper jacketed bullet inside a plastic sabot case, they were bloody expensive but very good we all used them at one time and they were very accurate and killed very well.

 

Ah, the Sussex sabo pellets. Never did have a go at them, but I used to have a little black tub of the plastic prometheus ones. It was funny finding the head inside the cardboard box holding the target and the plastic bit on the floor in front.

I might have put a few back together and fired them again

[charlie caller 3,654]

Had a trawl of the net earlier and came across a site that has a small amount of these, they will sell you 5 I think for about 3 quid, its a shame they dont still make them we all thought they were brill, I remember shooting quite a lot of game with these, and I recall them being bloody deadly.

[compoundarcher 35]

shoot them through a 30ftlb rifle they go supersonic and all over the place....they do go through car doors and the panels.. and into the centre console...scrap car back in the 80s with a gas ram theoben pumped up till busting point and arms like arni to cock it...lol

 

 

They used to only be in black....and hardened steel points not alloys...if you did hit anything live it would just pass straight through no visible damage you thought you missed but you didn't most of the time they just didn't cause any damage unless you hit vitals or head shot...

Edited November 16, 2013 by compoundarcher

[ghillies 209]

theyre ok through in a smooth bore like a G-10 or some such lol...

 

they do penatrate very well, but they also bounce worse than power balls!!

 

the main bad is if you look down your barrel you'll notise little collections of plastic ball build ups that move slowly towards the muzzle, so one 'accurate shot' followed randomly by a few less and a flier then one accurate shot.

 

for the chin wag factor.. i never had a skirt detatch tbh.. chipped out bricks with them though lol. (and my god it is thirty ear ago int it!)

 

now more intrestingly, those SABO's, now theres a diferent kettle of fish, same idia only the skirts flew off at the muzzle the and the velosity quodroopled lol!!

now if you want to portay dangerous, these were the babies, a ricko shot would rip through tries whilst tumling some 200 or more yards away..and, on a bod shot it would over penatrate suprisingly enough..just a huge entry hole, and yes i said bigger entry hole...tbh, they needed banning to any non FAC holder lol. or was it SA-BU...the .22's hand a pen thing to assemble th skirt and bullet bit, the .17's came ready made.

Edited November 16, 2013 by ghillies

[charlie caller 3,654]

They were deadly mate, if they still made em (wish they did) I would go and buy a .22 lol.

[ghillies 209]

ohhh yes they were lol... thats why they were stopped.

[kenj 131]

Back in the distant past, a couple of my mates had Crossman pump up rifles with the restrictor valves blanked off. They used prometheus pellets to shoot pheasant and geese at night. Their added trick was a squirt of model aeroplane fuel in the cup of the pellet. I watched one shoot a pigeon at 30 yards in a tree with these pellets and it blew the wing off. With the fuel it sounded more like an HMR. Those were much less enlightened times and wonder what they would have put out over a chrono.

I still have some of the unskirted "tin" pellets, which I tried in my Webley Viper .22. They were called Penitrators, but on head shot rabbits they were often still visible sticking out of the fur. Having bought them, I stuck with them for a while, but compared to Air Arms Field, they were inaccurate.