Done with Gamo Pellets...

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?

[longislandhunter]

RWS Panther is nice,,,, so is a B-26. Both good shooters available for a good price.....

Jeff

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)

[shadow]

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

[daved]

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

[PeakChick]

My .117 CFX shoots best with 8.4 gr JSB Exacts.

[JTK]

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.

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

[SGTMEATSAUCE]

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...

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

[davee1]

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.

[gamo2hammerli]

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......

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.)

[davee1]

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!!!

[longislandhunter]

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