Best of Non-Lead Pellets?
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If you are open to shooting slugs, the zan 177 lead free 8gr zans are great! Otherwise no experience with the pellets..
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I use H&N Baracudas 5.71gn, shot out of a Beeman underlever or crosman 2240. The Beeman is my goto when I feed my friends, Red Squirrel or chipmunks .
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Predator GTO's are a good non-lead pellet. Be very careful though, they can and do ricochet much more than lead pellets!
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I might have shot just about every non-lead pellet out there. In my experience, it depends on the gun. Some like one kind of pellet, others prefer a different pellet, just like with lead pellets. Are you disappointed with the accuracy of your current non-lead pellets?
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No, I am trying to get my kids into the sport, but slightly worried about lead exposure. Not too concerned for myself.
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Ah, yes, fading fast fond childhood memories of holding lead pellets between my lips while sniping sparrows from the Purple Martin house...
Maybe look for unleaded on sale and build the database on what their guns shoot best from that? There is that lesson of "guns shoot different projectiles differently". Pyramyd has their 4 tins/cans for 3, Midway has had good deals on "blemished" tins of H&N "Green" pellets (not that a dent in the pellet can will hurt the hard tin pellets), Trenier airguns has had good prices on GTOs, Daisy has had their wadcutters on sale, Umarexusa currently has some RWS pointed tin pellets for cheap. I haven't had much accuracy with the plastic sabot metal core pellets, but then again there probably are guns out there that shoot them well. And steel BBs are lead free and don't carry energy as far as diabolo pellets. I'd say shooting an inch at 10 yards with BBs takes real skill (and a good BB to bore fit.)
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