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 Post subject: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:03 pm 
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I found an old tin of Beeman Wadcutter #1230 pellets in my storage box. They seem to shoot pretty good (at 10m) from one of my rifles. They might be a good plinking pellet. These pellets are made in China so I wonder if they are also sold under a different brand name. The black coating doesn't matter but the shape and weight might be an indicator. I wonder if the Daisy WC is the same. It has a different weight listed but maybe the weight is not accurate. Any other guesses?

https://beeman.com/product/beeman-1230- ... ets-500ct/

https://www.daisy.com/product/daisy-177 ... count-tin/


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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:23 am 
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The Chinese made Beeman coated pellets are pretty good pellets. I bought a bunch of them from Airgun Depot years ago when the border was open, and $ was close to par. I still have four tins of the 7.2gr hollow points that shoot well in my Fury Springer. I donated a sleeve of the wadcutters to the NOSA junior shooters program. They shot well in the match guns at 10 meters. With the current exchange rate, the border closure, and the increase in cost of those pellets, H&N Sport purchased in Canada is a better value and a better pellet, too.

https://www.airgundepot.com/beeman-177- ... l#PY-P-626

They were $4.99 and every fourth tin free when I bought them.

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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 12:08 pm 
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Will the coating gum up the rifling in the barrel?


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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:21 pm 
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"Coated gumming up the barrel"?
I expect the coating is to act as some sort of lubricant.
I would expect no more "gumming" than by dry, pure lead pellets.

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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:32 pm 
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Nope. No gumming problem. I'm not sure if the coating was some sort of lubricant or an attempt to reduce lead contact with fingers. Back when I shot a .22cal HW45 I would stand up my pellets and spray them with furniture wax and let dry. The wax was a very thin coating that reduced friction in the barrel and also left a micro coating for protection from humidity. After many thousands if pellets I never had a problem with gumming. No accuracy or velocity problems. It probably made the barrel quite slick inside.


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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:44 am 
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The coating is a kind of baked on graphite, I think. It doesn't gum things up or rub off on the barrel or your fingers.
The coating does not like getting wet. If you leave the pellets out in the rain, the coating comes off. I know this from personal experience...

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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
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Not graphite I think, Rick. Likely a moly sprayed or tumbled on. You can do your own. There are several on the market. I've sprayed my .17 cal bullets
& cast bullets for my .25 Condor to cut down on bore deposits and reduce friction. It also has the propensity to increase BC as well, due to somehow
reducing the amount of engraving the rifling impresses into the bore. This was found by Walt Berger, some years back during the Moly craze.
On the market today, is a Moly spray by Lyman called Super moly. This one and MS Moly are the sprays I've used. Hoppe's has a moly spray, but it was
more or a lubricant spray as it wiped off easily. The other ones listed, don't rub off once dry. I also sprayed some cast 450gr. bullets for my .50/70 Sharps
and they did not need extra lubricant when shot with smokeless powder.

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 Post subject: Re: Wadcutter Pellets
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Moly will react the same way, with water. If it (moly) is in a normal steel barrel, moisture can get between it and the barrel and rust the bore.
Good to know this.

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