Gamo Pellets and Helping a Fellow Airguner…
I got a chance to check out some Gamo pellets a little while back… I was at the multi-purpose range sighting in my rifle and doing some accuracy testing when between the “thumps” of the powder burners I head the distinct “pffft” of a pellet rifle.
So during a cold line break I went over to see what was going on and say “hi”. The shooter was using a Gamo Big Cat I believe and shooting at 25 and around 50 yards off a hard rest.
Being the nice dude I am I gave him a couple of second hand pointers about resting and holding a springer and politely asked what kind of groups he was getting at his longer distances.
The line was called hot and I went back to my bench to begin the next session.
Well, he was really disappointed in the accuracy and rightfully so, the first issue was the ever changing wind and the second was his pellets.
During the next cease fire I noticed he had the full array of Gamo pellets, from super light to light weight. Having never seen a Gamo pellet in person I took a peek in a few of the tins after I offered a few of my Die #7 Crosman Premier Heavy domes.
😯 😯 😯 😕 😕 😕
There wasn’t a single clean pellet in the batch, ALL the skirts had what looked like part line over pour flags sticking out (they ARE swaged right?!). Most of the skirts were not even round… Is this normal for Gamo pellets???!!! 😯
Between the first and second time I went over to see how things were going he got a better rest and started using a more springer friendly hold and resting spot. While his groups were a little better the wind was still getting the best of him. Anyways, I gave him a full lid full of “real” pellets so he could give them a whirl. With the heavies instantly his groups were pellet touching pellet at 25 yards easily and the longer range groups were smaller than he previous 25 yards groups.
“It’s like a whole different rifle!” I urged him not to just throw out his Gamo pellets saying they will still work for ‘minute of bird or varmint” at closer ranges, of course the “gold plated” pellets are junk at any range but lead is lead and not to be simply thrown in the trash if it has some type of use. He asked me about the pellets I gave him one more time so he could order them, I sure hope he remembered what they were…
I did hang out with the pb guys some, one of them had a SCAR (waited over a year for just a black one, don’t even think of getting the brown one) and another guy had some awesomely accurate old (WWI & WWII) rifles he was shooting prone, with iron sights into an 8″ bull at 200 yards…
They were all pretty blown away by the “pellet” rifles I had on hand although I don’t think they believed me when they asked what they cost… 😆
But back to the Gamo pellets again.
Is this normal for those pellets?!?!
If so….
WTF!!! 😯 😯
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I know it’s trendy to dump on all things Gamo, but I have two rifles (a Daisy 853 and an older Condor (Diana 50) that one-hole their Match pellet at 10 meters, and my .177 Talon drills them into a 1/4″ group at 20 yards when on CO2 at about 550 fps. They spread quickly at higher velocities, ie when I’m on PCP. But keep them between 450 – 550 fps and they’re fine.
But they are messy and need a good bath before using. The other Gamo pellets I’ve tried have been not so hot in the guns I’ve tried them in.
The lead in them is pretty good – I took the pointed ones and others that didn’t shoot so hot, tossed them in my casting furnace, and turned them into .44 calibre HP’s that shot like a hot damn in my Winchester Trapper at about 850 fps! 😈
Gamo pellets are the worst ,plain and simple . I have a gas rammed varmint hunter that shoots 10.1 grain kodiaks at 905 fps and it gets tight groups at 40 yards . Put a gamo pellet in a gamo gun and groups spred quick . The gold PBA’s are the worst ever made and deserve no trigger time .
He said some of the PBA’s were not even making it on paper at 25 yards, the ‘paper’ is 24″ x 24″ at the range… 😯
Those don’t look too bad PB. The 22’s certainly look much better than what I saw of his 17’s…
I think he had the same 17’s as the yellow tin on the right side of your image (green too). They are kind of blurry so I can’t get a good look at them. But what I see in your photos is far better than what I saw in his tins.
I even took my glasses off because I thought I had a severe case of scope eye messing with me. 😆
Must have been a bad die day or something. 😕
that’s there TS22 at far left , these are all good looking pellets, these ts22 ‘s are under sized for my condor and shoot terrible, other wise all these gamo’s shoot pretty good , the gamo hunter in 22 shot very well and would have been my utility pellet, i was about to order a few thousand and i bought tow tin’s that were undersized also,and they shot bad, real bad in the condor,so i shoot the crosman hollow point for the utility pellet. i really like the way the hunter pellet performs on game , it mushrooms out allot. these hunter in 22 will shoot 3/8″ at 50’ in my condor, and stay under 1”
i shot the gamo 177 match most always in my rws m 48 and 34, they shoot pretty good or almost as good as the rws match meisters , have never shot a jsb or crosman brown box thru them in 177 ??? ,i always stayed with the match pellets on game because the round nose just seemed to slip thru, the match has much greater effect.
That is normal for Gamo pellets.
The old style ‘Hunter dome’ pellets were actually ok in a few of my guns, but as a whole, Gamo relies on gimmicks and slick advertising for their guns and their pellets.
The PBA pellets are like the third row of tits on a boar hog….useless.
Gamo markets to newbs and kids….and they do it well.
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But they are messy and need a good bath before using. The other Gamo pellets I’ve tried have been not so hot in the guns I’ve tried them in.
The lead in them is pretty good – I took the pointed ones and others that didn’t shoot so hot, tossed them in my casting furnace, and turned them into .44 calibre HP’s that shot like a hot damn in my Winchester Trapper at about 850 fps! 😈
You are correct in that the Gamo Match pellets are good. I wouldnt use them for competition, but they ‘suffice’ for most else. Gamo had them on sale a while back and I grabbed some.. then airgunsdaily had Meisterkuglens for cheap and I grabbed them.
I’ll concur that the Gamo match pellets are usable. The older Hunter pellets were ok. 99% of their other stuff is shit.