Hands down these are the most accurate pellets I have tried
njnoodles sent me some Promethius 14.5gr .22’s in the mail (thanks noodles) and my original intent was to try them in my BSA Scorpion. They did clear the magazine (just barely), but they were hard to cycle (slight resistance) and they did not group well at all in my Scorpion.
Next I tried them in my Condor 24″ barrel (distance shot on both rifles was 20 yards) mamcrackin brought up a good point in that to really see how a pellet performs you have to increase the distance way beyond 30 yards, etc, but for this initial test I only shot at 20 yards.
The first thing I noticed about these pellets is that they seemed to be the perfect diameter for my breech. They fit in with just the right amount of resistance (perfect). Fill pressure was 2800
A picture tells a thousand words so below is two ten shot group photos. Man, I really think that one shot that is slightly to the right was me pulling, I actually felt it when I squeezed. The 10 shot group was 1/4″ ctc, but if I didn’t pull shot 6 it would have been even better!
The next photo is a 10 shot group with jsb exact 16gr. It measured 5/16″ ctc. So these Promethius edged the jsb’s by a slight margin. Thanks again njnoodles for letting me test these. I will surely be buying some.
Here is a “dumb” question. The promethius (top photo) had a poi that was almost dead center. ten shots later the jsb’s poi was low and to the left (see bottom photo) Any guesses why? I wasn’t pulling each shot was squeezed off with the crosshair dividing the bullseye???
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Factory coating on the pellets ?? When changing from one coating to another it takes a bit for the barrel to switch over.
Airguns of Arizona has the 30 gr. but I’m not sure if they have the 14.5. Perhaps njnoodles will chime in on where he got them from.
would like to test too, who sells them
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was it this one
or this one
aoa has the first one