An Air Rifle Pellet Photographic Database (updated 19/09/10). All the pellets have been photographed at x2 life size and then resized for the database.
No additional updates to this database are planned.
For a reliable source of Pellet weights and BC values I would recommend this list provided by the, now defunct, Chairgun site, additional information on airgun pellet ballistics can be read here on the Beemans site. Please note that the stated pellet weights can easily vary by at least 5% due to manufacturing tolerances, if you are using a chronograph to check your rifles power output you should consider weighing the pellets being used.
If you are prepared to send me upto 4 pellets of any brands that are not included in the database so I can photograph and measure them please contact me. If you see any errors I would appreciate you contacting me so that I can correct them.
Using a chronograph can be made simpler using a new software programme called Chrono Connect. This software allows a computer to be connected to your Chrony or Combro chronograph to record and analyse your pellet string data.
Another pellet list and air rifle power calculator can be found here on the Extorian website.
Want to know what pellet your Air Rifle is likely to be most accurate with? Try this compiled list.
This database has been supported by members from the Glevum Target & Sports Club and the AirgunBBSforum including;
- relivingmyyouth (who provided the majority of the original pellets to start the database)
- Target Bunny – pellet selection and sections
- Jackel – Ox Nato, Eley Wasp Magnum and Webley Hustler Needlepoint pellets
- Ric O’Shay – Piledriver and Prometheus pellets
- Bob Ruggles – Defiant and Prometheus pellet selection
- Snock – Sussex Sabo 0.22 pellet
- Tweaky – JSB Jumbo heavy 0.22 pellet
- Tonys Camo – Challenger, Lanes, Gamo and Eagle pellets
- Pavel – the complete range of JSB Match Diabolo pellets
- Tony – the complete range of Skenco pellets
- Clashed – 0.177 King airgun Slug
- Sam Vimes – Various pellets and JSB variants for sectioning
- xpetop – Champion Challenger pellet
- ZaksGod – Dynamil Nobel pellet
- ? – Webley No. 1 pellet
- deebee – a collection of pellets from France
Just read through the recommended Beeman site on pellet ballistics and was very disappointed. There are numerous misconceptions on projectile flight and projectile reactions to launch disturbances. The claim that a pellet will go unstable due to launch yaw is one that particularly stands out as scientifically unsound.
Pellet ballistics can be complicated but it is not impossible. The same rules and laws apply to pellets as to any other ballistic projectile. To say they do not is to mis-understand the fundamental laws of ballistics. There are profesional ballisticians who work in the theoretical and practical ballistics of projectile flight throughout the world who could work on pellet flight (though I know they are few and far between) but very few seem to be active at present.
Boa tarde, Qual o melhor chumbo para caça, tenho uma Sumatra 2500 500cc .22 e uma Bam B50 .22
Obrigado
João Rodrigues
Salvador-Bahia-Brasil
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awesome pics and info and which beeman kodiak in .22 caliber produced a BC of 0.036 the copper plated ones or the lead ones?
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Thank You, Thank you !
Good Job, Great work Thank you !
sir i want to saw pellets making die’s picture. can u saw me the picture of pellets making die? i shall be waiting for your answer.
Hi,
I make up a block of steel with a set of holes in it drilled through with holes slightly under size for the pellets and then counter bored to a set depth from the other side. This allows me to load the pellet into the block to the same depth each time. I then use a clear epoxy resin poured into the holes to fill them and the back of the pellet skirts. When the epoxy hardened I can then mill the block in half and finish down to the centreline of the pellets on a centreless grinder.
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BTW, i have some Umarex flathead diabolo’s and Gamo flatheads, where can i send them to?
[...]Zo dan, een nogal enthousiaste luchtschieter heeft een lijssie gemaakt…
Hij heeft ballistische informatie verzameld van de meest gangbare pellets, en die gepubliceerd op zijn site. Ook staan er dingetjes bij als foto’s van de pellets, dwarsdoorsnedes etc. dus als je luchtfetishist bent een best leuke site…
Check PhotosByKev’s site voor meer info [...]
what “bc” has these pellets?
bc = ballistic coefficent
Great work, keep it up.
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“H&N Field Target 0.22″ would seem to be a
“H&N Field Target Trophy” (there is a different 0.22 caliber
pellet which is the “H&N Field Target”)
“Nickerson 0.82gm 0.22″ would seem to be the
“Nickerson Magnum Dome”
Hope these small changes help. So many @#$%&^* similar names.
Also the pellet listed as “H&N Diabolo Sport 0.22″ is certainly not that. Assuming that it is an H&N pellet it would seem to be the “H&N Spitzkugeln”
Another (I know anal correction) is that the “H&N Copper POint” would be more correctly listed as “H&N Coppa-Point.”
Think I found a few more small errors.
The pellet that you have listed as “Daystate Range Master” would be more correctly lareled “Daystate Range Master HE (High Energy)” since there a number of types in the “Daystate Range Master” brand.
The pellet that you have as “Defiant (L) 0.22″ I think is a “Defiant FAC”.
The pellet listed as “Defiant (M) 0.22″ is a “Defiant” (with a medium size head).
The pellet listed as a “Defiant Precision 0.22″ is a “Defiant” also, but I think this is a pellet before they started marking the head sizes.
Thank you for the corrections Herb I’ll update the files
Very good, and nice job.
Thank you for the info.
ecellent piece of database iwas uncomplete without it thanks highlander
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Nice list of pellets
BUT:
Would have been nice if we could just click on any such pellet and get a print-out of that particular pellet and its specifications so listed with its photos.
Also would have been nice to know where in the world we could get them, most of these are not sold here in Canada.
The gallery system doesn’t allow that feature, sorry
Kev, Do You have .25 cal Pics comming, It’s getting big in the States thank’s Franky
I haven’t had a chance to update the database in a long time unfortunately
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Great pictures and an excellent reference guide. Keep up the good work
Regards, Howard
here is the macro pictures of hatsan-jsb monster pellets.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6866/ss850317.jpg
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http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4681/ss850312.jpg
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/6566/ss850311.jpg
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/8315/ss850309.jpg
i took these pictures today
from Turkey with regards.
@Alan Smith
ALan have a read of this
http://bsaog.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17128.0
I conclusively recommend the existing superdome for the old airsporters
Steve
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Hi there. I’ve been collecting airgun pellets for 26 years. I have some that you don’t on your site. Would you be interested in making some trades to increase both our collections?
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Kev,
Very informative, thank you. I was searching for a site with cross sections of pellets as I have an older BSA Airsporter with a true .22″ (5.6mm) barrel. My preferred ammunition (5.6mm Eley Wasps) are no longer in production and are becoming increasingly scarce. There is a lookalike 5.6mm “Wasp” pellet available but it is not made by Eley and is a poor substitute.
I have access to a machine shop and am considering making an accurate die and mandrel to expand the head diameter of an existing pellet to 5.6mm. without shortening the length of the pellet to any appreciable degree or upsetting the concentricity or balance of the pellet.
The type of pellet I am looking for would have a round nose with the hollow section extending as far as possible into the head, from your .177 photos the JSB Exact Express would be a likely candidate. I am thinking I can use the mandrel to swage out the internal diameter of the hollow section whilst the pellet head is constrained in a 5.6mm cylinder that is counterbored to take the tail thus keeping the pellet correctly aligned and the mandrel would be in a guide to keep it aligned exactly. If the hollow section finishes well short of the head (JSB Exact from your .177 photos for example) I would only be expanding the diameter of the pellet waist, not the head.
Do you have any .22 cross sections? If the RWS Superdome could be expanded in the way I have in mind that would be ideal for me.
Regards,
Alan
I was looking at the JSB variants when I did the cross sections and was focussed on the 0.177 pellet size so I don’t have any 0.22 cross sections.
regards
Kev
hi kev,how did you cut the pellets for the cross section photos???
I mounted them in a brass block machined to the pellet diameter and then poured optical grade acrylic resin into the pellet and let the resin set. The brass was then machined down to the centre line of the pellet. The resin supports the pellet while it is being machined nd stops the soft lead distorting.
@Emma cubleycat
Emma, just be wary in thinking that the precise design of the JSB pellets always remains constant. I’ve seen a couple of minor variations in tins marked as AA Field and a couple of variations in tins marked as JSB Exacts. This has lead to the situation where some batches of AA Field are all but indistinguishable from JSB Exact (or Daystate FT/Select etc). Other batches are quite distinctly different.
Boa tarde…….fiquei impressionado com os modelos de chumbos aprensentados, gostaria se possivél de maiores informações aonde encontrar . Obrigado aguardo sua resposta .
There used to be a ‘Black Boy’ brand pellet in Australia 30-40 years ago, the were quite cylindrical, but unfortunately they fell straight through the barrel ! They needed to be flared at the back end so they would fit better, then they could be used downhill too!
This is an awesome database for the air rifle pellets i’ve never seen anything quite like it. Thanks for your time for the rest of us out there!
Here in Mexico, we have some companies that build their own pellets, for example:
Mendoza
Cabañas
If you need pictures of them, I can take some.
http://www.mexicoarmado.com/album.php?albumid=1121&pictureid=7263
In this photo appears Cabañas (the red one) and Mendoza (the ones that are in front of Cabañas and back, front of the Gamo Rocket., but also Gamo.
Very good job, NICE!
@UKPELLETCOLLECTER
DB has been updated
Thanks for spotting the error
hi KEV, i think there is a listing error for the prometheus Z25, it is a .25 calibre.
you have it as a .22 calibre
@GERRY
sorted kev, just what i have been looking for. i have been collecting .22 tins, boxes and all containers, often stated with original contents.
now i can compare them, and if neccessary, re claim some money back from those who have clearly tried to deceive me and other collecters, for financial gain in the auctions.
if there are any pellets that you think i might have, that you may require, drop me a line.
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how about the old jackel pellets
@photosbykev
thanks for reply GERRY .00 for me
hi its stated to weigh pellets if using a chrono would a 0.01g be adequate or would i need to go as far as 0.001g set of scales
Hi I use scales that measure to 0.1 grain
hallo kev,
what is the distance between mpe65 and the dias? do you have a werkfoto of your equipment?
if your mpe65 is wrong, you can reech the same results with old ef 28-105 + retroadapter ring
)))))
regards,
zoltan
Hi Zoltan,
this is my basic setup and I use a very small studio setup to photograph the pellets. The distance from the objective to the pellets is approx 1 inch
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Pellets I’d like to see: .177 Gamp Raptor P.B.A., .177 Daisy Precision Max, .177 Gamo Red Fire
I think I have at least two of those pellets waiting to be photographed. I use a Canon MP-E65 lens to photograph the pellets and that is currently away being serviced so I have a backlog of about 100 pellets waiting to be catalogued
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Kev, thank you very much for a well thought out overview of the wonderful pellet selection we have available to us. I especially appreciated the listing of the pellet weight, head diameter, skirt diameter and ballistic co-efficient. Everything in one place.
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Absolutely fantastic stuff Kev, so many people say air arms and JSB exacts are the same but I know by taking macro photos of pellets myself they are not the same. Nice job Kev
I have a sleeve of Lapua Air Silhouette pellets. .177 – no other info known.
Shoot me an address and I’ll send a few to you.
I’d be interested in knowing what they are (specs). They work great in my Nitro – too heavy for the R7.
Thanks,
Bill
Thank you for sharing a very worthwhile resource for all serious airgunners here. I appreciate the efforts you put into this. How can I send pellet samples from my part of the world? Again, congratulations for a wonderful site.
Thank you David,
email sent
Kev
I’d be willing to send you about 30 pellets that you don’t have. Mostly brands from US.
Your contact form is locked. How can we contact you?
sorry, I have recently changed the contact system and didn’t check it actually worked
I’ve sent you an email
regards
Kev
Thanks for the great work on compiling the info on pellets. Would like to put a link in our GTA Library. Great stuff. Thanks
Thank you for the comments, please feel free to add a link to the page
best regards
Kev
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hello there.
did anyone try this pellet ??? (skenco plastic)
thanks
love the posts. they’re very informative. I’ll be keeping an eye to your blog to get the recent updates.
Great reference site, thanks for making it available.
JIm
nice one
Amazing info and excellent photographs. I’d love to include the B.C.’s and muzzle velocities in my ballistic calculator… Would you mind?
Photosbykev reply: the BC information has been used, with permission, from the Chairgun site it would be appropriate to contact the author directly to ask for clearance but it is public information
best regards
Kev
theres no .20 cals shown where do we send the pellets samples ?
Photosbykev response: please check your email
Good Job, Great work Thank you !
Blimey Kev. This database gets bigger and better by the day. Great work. Love the rest of your site too.
We are going to be at the IWA at Hall 5-144.
Are you going to be there?
Best regards,
Tony
Been looking for a site like this for ages !! Keep up the great work Kev.
Well done Kev, I commend you for your effort.
D R
Need address for a good selection of pellets for your collection.
BOB/R
nice one
WOW Kev!!!
That is a truely un-selfish body of work you have put together there. I hope everyone appreciates the obvious care and attention spent.
Good Man!!
Steve D.
Now that’s what I call dedication.
Regards, Bob