Edgun pellets
What can you tell us about the difference between JSB 18.1 – .22 cal pellets and the Edgun 18.1 – .22 cal pellets? They appear to be quite similar but slightly different. How do they shoot compared to the JSB’S, etc? I haven’t tried the Edgun pellets.
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I read that one when I was searching for the other one. That first post made it sound like he is just repackaging the JSB pellets. The one I linked to mentions a new die.
Ed!! Please enlighten us! 
here’s Eds introduction:
Re: FX Wildcat at Joe Brancato for $300 to $500 off retail..
Same here FVA, any information I can get on how JSB does the off brand pellets is welcomed. 😉
Quotes from Ed
Postby Ed » Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:44 pm
It is a well known thing that one shouldn’t mix the pellets even made by one manufacturer but at different time due to the lead. The lead of the pellets can have different structure from delivery to delivery. It is normal. So, having shoot pellet made of different lead you have worse accuray. The best thing is to clean the barrel, then shoot about 50 shots, to let the barrel “get used to a new structure of the lead” and then shoot accuracy.
Postby Ed » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:45 am
I know that JSB heavy 5.52 are perfect pellets, I order the barrels especially for this pellets, playing with twists and diameters for more then a year.
JSB pellets are available in States from me and for the better price. Contact Tony Rudenko.
JSB is the most accurate pellets in this caliber, I tried many of different brands and know that.
Then this-
I am glad to tell you that I have received the first delivery of EDgun pellets, caliber .22 in United States. And they are available for sale. In fact those are original JSB heavy 18 grain pellets, which are produced for EDgun company especially, using new die at JSB factory in Czech Republic.
I’m curious if that “new die” is spec’d different? Set aside to produce only Edgun pellets or used for other run of JSB 18.1’s.
Testing Pellets directly in JSB
http://www.fieldtarget.cz/ostatni/testy-diabolek-unor-2013.html
http://www.fieldtarget.cz/ostatni/testy-diabolek.html
Ed can do this and sort the best batch of pellets for his barrel… and JSB will produce…
Thanks everyone for the comments. I bought a bunch of tins real cheap that I couldn’t pass up. Never used them. It was 33 tins. I figured they were good so I guess I’ll find out. 😯
Yep; I distinctly remember, I think: maybe; that Ed posted that he worked with JSB to come up with a pellet that was to Ed’s specifications. I do know that the JSB pellet swaging machines use replaceable dies because the dies do wear out after some usage.
IIRC, Ed had the dies made up and that the pellets produced with them were shipped to him. I could be wrong on this; Ed posted that info at least 6-8 months ago and I have slept and gotten drunk on a few occasions since then. 😳
At the time that Ed announced his line of pellets, he stated that he had no plans of selling them in 25 cal so; I had no interest in his line of 22 only pellets.
I mean REALLY: who gives a rats ass about 22 cal? 😆
That is what I remember Ed saying when he introduced them a ways back… 😀
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Man, that was a lot of posts to look through.
“New die”… Still not sure if it is his alone or…?
I don’t think they do.
I believe Ed and AA have their own dies.
Who knows if the dies are slightly different than the normal JSB dies that are separate from the other JSB dies.
I believe the dies work in the swaging machines that are used for all the other pellets. I can’t see a separate machine for EdGun pellets sitting at the JSB factory going unused for a month or so and then being setup to run a few hundred thousand and then shut down again. Seems cost-prohibative to do it that way and why wouldn’t Ed just have the machine at his factory….
I would say the AA & EdGun dies are either semi-custom or client proofed/approved dies.
JSB (or the factory) swages the pellets from those dies and either labels them for the different clients or the clients label them on their own.
The AA pellets I get have a head size and a batch number label on the bottom.
So are we talking a pellets spec’d differently or just made on different machine /day?
Believe Ed said his pellets were heavies labeled in his name. Not a pellet made by different die spec’d by him.
AA pellets are made by JSB and they are not the same.
They may look the same but some of the JSB tins have groups that open up to 2″ at 45 yards.
And the AA tins have groups that don’t open up at 45 yards.
So while it may “look” like the same pellet, it may not be the same pellet…
Be sure to test at longer distances, the JSB Heavy were fine at 30 yards, at 40 things were very, very different.
The new red labeled JSB 177 Heavy 10.35 grains have gone to SHIT. I ordered 12 tins and six were TOTAL CRAP. No more lot numbers, no more head size numbers on the tins either.
Won’t be buying that over priced garbage again.
JSB Heavy 500ct= $15
AA Heavy 500ct= $11
I bought 24 tins of the AA pellets and none have been as bad as the JSB.
The Edgun brand on the left is lighter at the rear making it head heavy, I get smaller grouping on my Edguns and Crickets. Edgun has its own molding made by JSB!
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Ernest
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My observations,
0.22 std barrel
845FPS
1. JSB looks pretty nice, shiny and clean.
2. Thin skirt with EDgun pellets, Easy got damaged.
3. Both are good for plinking in 100 less yards. Hard to tell the difference.
4. Beyond 100 yards, JSB pellet shows a tiny consistent stability issue, and I see a slice better edge with Edgun pellets, which look more stable.
5. I see occasional flyer more from edgun pellet than JSB. Maybe a pellet sorting will help Edgun pellet.