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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Gamo Gate => : March 06, 2008, 09:36:12 AM
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So I'm doing some target shooting with Gamo Match pellets and I hear that undeniable "crack" of breaking the sound barrier. The last time I heard it, I was shooting raptors and broke my spring. CDT fixed it for a very fair price and gave me the link to this forum, which is when that I found out that raptors are too light. CDT suggests only pellets between roughly 7-9 gr. and these Gamo Match's were 7.71. Obviously, I thought that they were in an acceptable weight range, but more obviously, they were not. The spring didn't break, but I'm now leary.
My CFX .177 could just be a lemon.. I dunno. It's never been really accurate, but I don't want to spend any more money on it either. I'll just keep the pellet weights in the mid 8's and hope it doesn't break again.
Admittedly, I'm new to spring-air guns and I am really enjoying it, but if I should give up on my CFX, is there a more forgiving, moderately priced springer I can try?
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RWS Panther is nice,,,, so is a B-26. Both good shooters available for a good price.....
Jeff
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i agree with jeff, for the money,the panther is a dynamite shooter,accurate,decent power& nice to shoot, i have more expensive guns & i spend most of the time shooting the panther,under $200,you can't go wrong.....
joe cuz(akita breeder)
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Don't have the Panther yet hehehe but heard nothing but great thing's and she's on my list. I have two B26's, both .177 and one is the -2 T-hole stock . The other has the Sporter stock and has been tuned by CDT, WHAT A SHOOTER!. Both are fine shooter's for the money. Ed
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Hey, Brian, have you tried JSB Exacts or RWS Superdomes yet? Both shot very well in my CFX, the Exacts were more accurate, the Domes a little more powerful. The Exacts can be had in different head sizes ranging from 4.50 to 4.53 mm, mine was best with the 4.52. Other than that, just keep shooting it. Good luck.
Dave
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My .117 CFX shoots best with 8.4 gr JSB Exacts.
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also.. if the price on JSB's are to dear you can use the gamo Pro Hunters.. stay away from those wadcutters. High power springers dont like them. they are best @ 600fps and lower.
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maybe its just in my area, but no one I know likes any of the gamo pellets, any model. No one can get any of them to group consistantly.
I want to try the predators, but they are pricey. I am also interested in the crosman fireball, but I am waiting to find a few real reviews on it.
until then I'll keep using the crosman premier hollow points. they seem to be working just fine so far. one right on top of the other through my whisper.
-MArk
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Forget the Fireballs, I checked into them, they sound on paper to be great but like 1/2 of the tin of pellets are unusable with bent skirts, littel extra jagged pieces hanging on them, balls missing(ouch!), bent fronts, the worse quality control of any pellet, PA discontinued them because of these problems, however the Rockets work great...
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drag.
I was hoping they would be good. did you hear that from just one site or from various areas?
I saw the same thing on the PBA's I had bought a year ago and in the free ones that came with my whisper recently. busted and bent skirts, etc.
-Mark
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Have you tried the TomaHawks? They shoot fairly well in all of my .177 guns.I just recently stocked up on them. They come 750 per tin and they are $5.59 at Midsouth but are not in stock right now, as they are a pretty hot item, but they are on order. If you havent tried em, give em a chance.
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At the moment I don't like the Gamo TOMAHAWKS......some of the pellets are REALLY REALLY hard to push in....some of them need slight pressure (The perfect ones...)...and some of them drops in too easily (No pressure needed....(Actually, if I have the rifle pointed upwards...and I swing the barrel shut...sometimes those pellets FALL OUT)). IMO...that's definitely lack of quality control. Or maybe I just got a bad tin of pellets......
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I have a tin of Tomahawks and found them to be somewhat accurate, not as good as the Crosman Premier Lites and HPs, but as previously mentioned, they were random in size as well as my tin had too many pellets with extra appendages on the skirts. I found myself inserting the pellet then having to fold over excess waste lead into the skirt. They do cut a nice clean hole in a paper target though.
(Full size pics available upon request.)
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yep...all that is true but I shoot em anyway and they work. Brought down skunks and jays with em no problem. Well the skunks needed a few. I shoot them out of my S1K all the time. When they first came out, they were very uniform, and then later they started showing up with the QC issues. I like them because they are cheap and reasonably accurate. But I dont have any like what IRBENT has...that is ugly!!!
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I've gone through a lot of tomahawks and I've never gotten any that looked like that. I have had some that were very tight going into the barrel, but never had any with such severely deformed skirts.
I really likem,,, they work well on starlings, pigeons and small game....
Jeff
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None of mine looks like some of IRBents Tomahawks..... Just very tight, perfect or too loose. Haven't shot them long distance yet....so I don't know how accurate they are....
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If I ever put in a pellet that was too loose, or found more than a couple bad skirts, I would immediately pitch the entire tin.
I'm not going to spend $220+ on a pellet gun and risk damage to it over $5 worth of pellets.
I'll gladly take that loss before I would ever chance damage to my rifle.
-Mark
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There are quite a few forgiving air rifles you might like. Come up with a price range and I'll come up with several you can check out within that price range.
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my big cat actually prefers Gamo rockets. at 25-35 feet it sits hole in hole shots. i just have to dial the elevation on the scope up higher then usual to shoot them.
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I'm done with most Gamo pellets as well. I tried a sampler pack that I bought at Dick's sporting goods (my choices were limited) and it seems like every other shot flies off high and to the left. Admittedly, I'm new to this and not the best shooter but it was getting ridiculous. I picked up some Crossman pellets today and they shoot much more consistently. I ordered a few different kinds of pellets from Pyramyd air as well and hope I find something my gun likes. Maybe it was just the junk that theyoffer in the sampler pack that was low quality. I did order one package of pellets from the Gamo premium line and hope they do better.
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Robby:
As a tool & diemaker and machinist retired from a plant that built, produced parts from and serviced both plastic and die-cast injection molds; it appears to me that the Tomahawk pellets it the photo came from a worn out mold. The mold parting-line edges are eroded and the corepins are either worn or the corepin holes have excessive wear producing the skirt "flash" IMHO.
If it were me, I would send those pellets back to the seller as defective.
What goes around, comes around - even if it flies.
Mike (Machinist)
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my uncle just bought a gamo shadow last week, and before I even said anything to him he was complaining about how bad the PBA's are. he said he had switched to the CPHP's and all the grouping problems went away.
I recommended this site, so he might show up to read it, but I doubt he'll post anything.
-Mark
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Most shooters here say the PBA's are too light for high fps air guns. I bought 3 Gamos in the last month or so...and have 150 free PBA pellets....I've only shot them out of my Diana model 24...which shoots only 495fps. The "experts" here say that light pellets might damage your gun...I think the PBA's are 5.?? grains each. On the other hand...too heavy a pellet might damage your gun also.....
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I'm new to the air rifle end of shooting but I've read most of the stuff written about the Gamo pellets and especially the PBAs. I was told by the guy who sold me my Hunter Elite that I should shoot about a 1000 to 1500 pellets before shooting any PBAs to allow everything to "settle in." I understand the wearing in or settling in idea; but why would Gamo come up with a pellet design that is harmful to their guns??? And someone suggested that a pellet that goes supersonic is necessarily bad for the gun. Anyone know why that's the case?
Jerry
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No expert here...but from what I've read here (GTA); the pellet going supersonic is not bad for your air gun (It might be bad for your pellet since it might tumble in flight...which causes misses...).....it's HOW the pellet achieve supersonic speeds that might harm the air gun. Most pellets that goes supersonic are light in weight....so when you pull the trigger, the spring surges forward and the pressure builds up and propels the pellet forward.Since with less weight (pressure (pellet)) slowing the piston down....the piston will slam into the end of the air chamber...which causes more recoil/shock. I would think this would be the cause of air gun failures. I stand to be corrected.