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I finally got a chance to test out a few of the .177 H&N pellets I bought from Nikonos recently. I used my 953 at 10m, fully rested.

First up were the excite hammer (a budget pellet, round nosed with a pleated skirt). 5 shots made a ragged hole of about 3 diameters - very respectable for a cheap pellet.



Next I tried the match rifle, 5 rounds in each of two targets:



The top target is basically a single enlarged hole of about one and a quarter diameters, the bottom target is two diameters. It could easily have been me that pulled one shot.

Finally the match pistol, five rounds each again.



As with the previous set, one target is single enlarged hole, the other has a flier which opened it up to about 2 diameters.

I'm pretty happy with all of those results. The budget pellet is perfectly usable (I've never really liked dry fire practice, so a cheap pellet is kind of handy), and both of the match pellets are very good indeed. I'll need to do a whole load of scored single targets to work out if one is really better than the other in each of my guns.

Now, if I could just hit the middle of the target...

Jim

Good pellets, great shooter!

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-Rick

Brocock Concept .22
3 Crosman MK 1 pistol .22

I'm confused. How wide is three diameters?

.177 x 3 = .531
Very nice shooting Jim for an inexpensive single pump rifle!

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-Rick

Brocock Concept .22
3 Crosman MK 1 pistol .22

Good shooting, indeed. I shall note for future reference that a diameter = .177 inches

Thanks guys. Sorry about the confusion over diameters, I was just being lazy and judging the groups visually instead of getting the ruler out

I'm very pleased with the way the 953 has turned out. The original barrel was very pellet fussy, but since replacing it with an 853c barrel things are much better.

Jim

Sweet shooting there Jim!! I might have to try some of these pellets in the future.

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Megiddo65

nice shooting Jim that's unfortunate you got a bad barrel with your 953, shoots cheepo Daisy pellets great @ 10m
here is mine shoots Pellicano pellets not sure if you heard of them : topic61086.html

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