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Hades are known to have smaller head diameters than standard dome pellets. The "polymag" on the left is actually called a metalmag which I think is made by H&N. Different metal makeup. Harder too. I know little about copper pellets, but similar sized jsb dome pellets should group as well.

Hello and welcome to AGN. This is hands down the best forum for airgun enthusiasts. Well your question is probably going to get lots of answers and lots of good suggestions. But it's not as simple as taking the recommendations and then start hitting bullseye. You must test. In my AT44 177 I'm getting my best results from CPHP 9.7,CP piranha 10.5,jsb monsters 13.43 and apollo 9.0 round and pointed. I hope you find a few that work well for you. I was lucky enough to have a member send me a sample package of lead that had worked well in his AT44 177.

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@coolman9816 - Welcome to Airgun Nation. There is a lot of good information here. Avoid pellets that fit in the breech loosely. Try and use lead pellets, they work the best in 99% of rifles.

For .177, the most common weight is right around 8 to 10 grains. Try Crosman, JSB, H&N's.

For example, these work very well in most rifles.


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I have found hades to perform very well out of fx pellet liners and the avenger I had. The avenger needed to be turned down to about 850 fps for them to work well. The only barrel for me that hasn’t really liked them is my delta wolf barrel. It isn’t horrible but there are plenty of options in that price category that work a lot better.

I have never found a particular trend about what pellets a gun will shoot best (unless it was tuned and the tuner is telling me which pellet it was tuned on). So the answer is to just test everything you can afford to test on.

Oh there is another exception: I stick with the recommended weights for springers because you don’t want to break springs or bounce the piston too hard. So there I test all I can while staying in that weight range.

dgeesaman said:

I have never found a particular trend about what pellets a gun will shoot best (unless it was tuned and the tuner is telling me which pellet it was tuned on). So the answer is to just test everything you can afford to test on.

Oh there is another exception: I stick with the recommended weights for springers because you don’t want to break springs or bounce the piston too hard. So there I test all I can while staying in that weight range.

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What would you recommend as the heaviest pellet to shoot in a HW77 long 13.6 FPE when shooting 13 .? grain .22 pellets ?

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What would you recommend as the heaviest pellet to shoot in a HW77 long 13.6 FPE when shooting 13 .? grain .22 pellets ?

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My HW95K .22 seems to do the best groups using H&N FTT 14.66 gr 5.53 mm pellets. Average about 17 FPE.

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What would you recommend as the heaviest pellet to shoot in a HW77 long 13.6 FPE when shooting 13 .? grain .22 pellets ?

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Me personally I’d stick to under 13.x and 14.x pellets. If it’s a magnum powered .22 springer I’d also test 15.9 and 18gr.

I’m no expert here though.