Finding the best pellets for a sub 12 air rifle

Hi guys got a video here on pellets and in this one I go though some testing and show off some of my favorite pellets.
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[@leec8592]

Love a bit of pellet testing! It can be a real eye opener to the relationship between barrel and pellet type. Thanks for posting your results.

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@skalliwag2766]

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, i appreciate that there are no commercials 😊, i like the jsb heavy 10.34 , 177. Hades in 22 , and RWS HOBBY for competition shooting at 20 yards

[@sub12airgunners]

Thank you 👍 the 10.34 seems to work in ok most is a go to for us when we star testing 😀 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@TurkishTinkerer]

Many people forget how important and how in depth pellet testing can be. Very informative video mate 😁

[@sub12airgunners]

thanks mate Thanks for watching 🙏

[@rayingles1]

Something we all go through can sometimes defy logic but good to see your process.

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@davidcrane5984]

Thanks for taking the time and effort to post this. Very interesting. In the past I've found that replacing a mainspring (in the days before PCP's) could cause the rifle to change it's favourite pellet.

[@sub12airgunners]

yes lots of things seem to affect the pellet😀 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@christopherwright8179]

Excellent video explaining how pellet testing is done properly. I was a Pete’s Airgun Farm a couple of weeks ago pellet testing on the 50 yard indoor range. With my BRK Ghost, I had similar results to you with the JSB Exact 8.44gr coming out on top, although mine had a head size of 4.52. I also found that the QYS domed were fine at 35 yards, but the group opened up at 50! H&N 8’s were good in the Ghost, but I’m saving them for my HW98 springer. Despite being recommended H&N FT’s, they underperformed in the Ghost. Other JSB’s like the Heavies and Express were also excellent. I’ll try the AA Diablo Express next. Thanks

[@sub12airgunners]

yes the H&N pellets i struggle to find them the best in any gun we have🙄 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@donspiteri6814]

Good video guys, as always.

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@JohnVentarino-ey5ln]

It's no problam my friend I just thought you didn't want to sell what I was asking for that's why you never got back to me but I just wanted a yes or no. But I see now by your comment you don't get a chance always to answer and that's fine bud. You just amaze me with your skills and when you are doing something on a gun I own I pretty much watch every ounce and part of them videos and if you make something for them I want it because it makes so much sence to change what your changing and putting your genious part on instead. I really wish I had your brain and skills take care my friend.

[@mymodel6]

I'm at over 50 pellet types in my current testing. Multiple 5 shot groups of each, all measured and logged on a spreadsheet. My Redwolf will shoot 5mm groups at 35 yards with the right pellet, and 30mm groups with the wrong ones. Example: It hates all QYS pellets, except 8.48gn streamlined in 4.49, go up to 4.50, absolute shotgun. Pellet testing is EVERYTHING...

[@sub12airgunners]

i couldn't agree more 👍 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@brygibbs2982]

Just brilliant video on pellets explained perfect

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@Tim_Bassett]

Nice overview and approach to the pellet testing side of things.....one thing I always try and remember is that when you do find the batch which works as you want - buy lots of them, as pretty soon you won't be able to get them and then you have to start all over again 🙂 I do have sleeves which are a few years old, however anything less than say 5 tins, then I know I have to test.....mind you, the rate I tend to use pellets 5 tins can last a fair while :-) 🙂

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏 you have all the pellets Tim 🤣

[@sussexairgunner]

Lovely and informative video as always, my go to pellet in .177 is the Rangemaster Sovereign Hunter 10.33, these work amazing in my Daystate Alpha Wolf and Redwolf, neither are particularly pellet fussy the Hunters just beat everything else out.

[@sub12airgunners]

yes the Redwolf seems to shoot anything well 😀 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@crazycressy7986]

I've always used AA field deablo, and someone recommended the Hades 10.34gr, and boy, you can hear they hit hard ,and in my .177 Vixen short, both pellets have the same poi from 12y to 56y so ven better 😊

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@gallantone1535]

I find my FX impact MK2 sub 12 isn't too pellets fussy .JSB ,AA ,H&H,bisley long range gold, and i have found that the bisley long range gold do extremely out too 50M and for being a lighter pellet that the others i have mentioned. I was extremely happy with them and I have used for hunting with good results, enjoyed your video 👍

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@shakesmadness]

QYS streamline heavy and dome heavy are me an my mates pellet of choice at 50 metres. shooting air arms s510t and carbine

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@JohnVentarino-ey5ln]

Yes I agree with you your absolutely right. I asked him a few times about if it was possible to sell something he made that I could have used and is all I wanted to know was a yes or no about selling them. And I feel if you have a comment section and someone's subscribed to your channel and gives you likes and good comments on alot of your videos then give them the same when just asking a simple question. Yes or No. But no biggie.

[@SteveC200]

Maybe you should take a hint?🤣

[@JohnVentarino-ey5ln]

@@SteveC200 maybe you should mind your business.

[@duopkik]

What a Karen 😂

[@sub12airgunners]

Sorry i missed your question, but the bits we sell will be on ebay or in Bagnal & kirkwood as we supply them. We don't do any custom work for people and lots of the bits we make for the videos are just for our guns and not for sale 👍

[@JohnVentarino-ey5ln]

@sub12airgunners thank you buddy.

[@mymodel6]

Just did some testing with our Vixen, and was very surprised that the AA Express pellets consistently out performed JSB Express's. They look identical..

[@sub12airgunners]

yes seems mad 🤔 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@paulspeller968]

oh yes sir it’s a must if your a target shooter . so the new batch of shorts i got from germany are awesome shot my first 5000 this week in our club monthly comp and i am over the moon . taken me 2 years to get there 🤣🤣🤣 . it’s a painful and quite expensive process but definitely worth finding that magic pellet 🤪 just don’t get to obsessed with it or you end up with a million tins of pellets 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ( to be fit i find shorts pretty much go through all my rifles (shhhh keep it a secret 🤣🤣🤣🤣)

[@sub12airgunners]

yes i think we have a tin of all the pellets🤣 shorts work in most guns well and it's the first pellet we try when testing 😀

[@alanclifton2251]

Great informative video as always 👍 if may ask a question please. I recently purchased a airmaks krait l and did the pellet testing as mentioned and the qys 9.56 streamline and qys magnums were grouping best.howerver after a couple of weeks I noticed the accuracy had gone off.nothing changed chronograph results still same.so re tested different pellets again and now jsb heavy are grouping best were as before the weren't great.not came across this before and was wondering if you could shed any light on this for me .thanks keep up the good work 👍

[@sub12airgunners]

have you cleaned the barrel or maybe a temp difference Thanks for watching 🙏

[@three-phase562]

All comes down to how much time you want to spend chasing the accuracy you desire. A lot want absolute accuracy but won't spend the time pellet testing.

[@sub12airgunners]

you have that right mate, you need to put the work in 😀 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@brorjordas1979]

Awesome topic! Yea. Always good to test pellets, no matter if your rifle would even be classified as "junk" by many - such as my Sig Virtus .22, which kinda is my favorite plaything and hobby airgun to work on.. But yea. To the pellet aspect. My Virtus main food is the cheap RWS Hobby pellets which provide about a random sub 5cm clustergroup at 25. Not been worth going past 25m. The hobbys apparently (to me anyways) start to spread after 25m. Yea. I'm not much for "real" target work with this rifle anyways. The JSB Jumbos do geoup better - but I don't like wasting money on more expensive pellets, due mostly being into plinking etc. Then. The worst that I've seen - ever. RWS Hypermax pointed alloy pellets (.22). The RWS Hobbys made the ordinary as usual sub 5cm clustergroup at 25m. Then I switched over to test some Hypermaxes. => About 52cm(!!) was the distance from farthest left hit, to the farthest hit to the right made on the sheet of cardboard that I had as a scope sighting-in aid. Surely was nice to see high fps numbers with the Hypermax pellets - but the Hypermax pellet tin has been shelved ever since that first test of them... Surely no good example, due the rifle in use is more of a replica plinker, but still, the difference on paper at 25m was just insane.

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@TheAsa1972]

18 quid for the QYS ,Phew just 13 quid down here

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@matthewrezuke8130]

How's that Delta @ 50 power?

[@Premierslugs]

Hi Jake will you be doing a slug comparison,I sent you and your dad some to try and believe the results looked promising.

[@sub12airgunners]

Hi yes we hope to yes your slugs in the 12 gn are very good in sub 12

[@Premierslugs]

@sub12airgunners thats great I can make them but don't own a subby 177

[@krisgater6891]

Can I ask you an obvious question.. Without having to spend huge amounts of money, How do you choose which pellets to test with your rifle?

[@sub12airgunners]

thanks mate 😀

[@charlottegrieff662]

I'm not keen on the QYS or AA. MY R12 CLX Pro in .177 prefers the JSB 10.34.

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@tomthompson7400]

how about leading , do you clean your barrel , or let them lead up , lube or not ?

[@marcinrozmus-gq3hx]

I will not lub pellets if I were u. Lead barrel ok but if you want to switch to other pellets....each brand use different lead and it s making a huge difference on 12sub rifles.

[@paulblundell8033]

I think the video flows better as is. They start showing how pellets can vary on accuracy and then they explain the process they follow which mentions barrel cleaning numerous times. I found pellet washing and lubing made little difference but again it’s test and test again. The big advantage the guys have is Petes Airgun Farm has both 30 and 50 yard indoor ranges so it removes the wind variation which probably can have the biggest effect.

[@vincentsmith8328]

Got enough pellets there Geoff??😁😁😁

[@sub12airgunners]

😁 we have them all i think mate 🤣 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@OriginalMarkyBoy]

👍🏽

[@markhomer5704]

Fantastic. Great video,... Think I've got all of them in my pellet stash, love pellet testing and associated vids

[@sub12airgunners]

😁 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@Piupiu68az]

Muy muy Ingles, saludos Es un trabajo agotador aunque eliges uno y un dia van bien , otro regular y por fin lo conseguiste que poco dura el espejismo, vuelta a empezar, risas?

[@sub12airgunners]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@JohnVentarino-ey5ln]

I don't know why you have a comment section because you only answer who the hell you feel like answering.

[@lancsvermincontrol]

He can reply to whoever he wants to. He makes the time to make the videos but answering everybody's questions is very time consuming. He's still providing a good service with valuable information.

[@duopkik]

@@JohnVentarino-ey5ln Well yeah. It's his channel and he can reply to whoever he wants.

[@sub12airgunners]

sorry if i have missed your questions but i do have lots of messages to go through on many different platforms, i do try to read and answer all of them but it just imposable so some get missed 😌 Thanks for watching 🙏

[@sub12airgunners]

Thank you😀 and thanks for watching 🙏