Best pellet in .177 BSA Buccaneer

[Njones6871]

Hey everyone. I've recently purchased a new bsa buccaneer in .177 cal. I'm looking to find out what the best performing pellets are for it. I've tried the exact heavy 10.3gr. Also I've tried the air arms diablo field 8.44gr. The exact heavy seem to perform a bit better. Curious on the jsb hades for hunting

 

[dreamweaver]

The buccaneer comes shooting too fast from the factory. 8.44 aa were over 1000 fps.

My nephew just got this gun a couple weeks ago. He has limited air availability so I wanted to tune it down to be accurate as well as efficient for him. In stock form, it did shoot the 10.34 descent at around 940 if I remember correctly. The 8.44 were not that great. We adjusted the hs back a good bit until the shot curve was nearly flat, around 890-900 fps, from a 2500 psi fill down to 1000 psi. Over 2500 and velocity is very slow. He gets 80-90 shots on a fill, which is great in my estimation. This was with pellets in the 8-8.5 range.

Surprisingly the most accurate pellet we tested was the cheap daisy hollow points that can be had on amazon for $5/tin of 500. We only tried 5 or 6 kinds, but it out performed the aa 8.44, jsb 10.34, as well as a few others. The gun is still new and breaking in so we'll have to reserve judgment for a while and until we've tried a few different pellets. 

 

[davecole]

Best pellet I’ve found for the BSA barrel is the H&N 10.65 Baracuda Match with the 4.50 head. It hated the 4.52....

 

[Yo]

Lower the power to anywhere around and in between 12-18fpe or add a HUMA Reg and remove the barrel band and Try Air Arms 10.3 and CROSMAN BROWN BOX 10.5 and Ultra Magnum Premier 10.5

 

[Njones6871]

Great info! Id like to try the daisy hollow points since they are so affordable! Ive also heard great things on the crossman heavy domed brown box 1250 count. Any way you could share a link on the Daisy's you are talking about? I can't seem to find them on Amazon 

 

[dreamweaver]

These are the ones. Not in stock at the moment, but they seem to come and go.

https://www.amazon.com/Daisy-MFG-500CT-177Hollow-Pellet/dp/B002HT0MDM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1M04BH1XFJYGI&dchild=1&keywords=daisy+.177+pellets&qid=1594167107&sprefix=Daisy+.177%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-3

 

[Yo]

If your gun unbelievably shoots any Daisy pellets good then the Chinese Beeman Hollow points should be even more accurate at $4.50 or less per 500. Do a Google search I dont have a link.

 

[Yo]

The Crosman PREMIERS 1250 count $19.00 cheapest at Buds Gun shop when they're in stock.

 

[MaineJim]

I got my Buc set at 880fps with Barracuda Match and it stacks them up to 50 yards.

Every other pellet and i tried over a dozen premium pellets 'group' 4-6 inches at only 35 yards.

 

[dreamweaver]

Ironically, they have been pretty decent in both my HW100 as well as my nephews Buccaneer. Not the best, but better than expected. I read a post about them on another forum. Apparently, they’re made in Spain, not China anymore since(I believe) Gammo owns Daisy now.

 

[Njones6871]

Fantastic advice! I did exactly as you said. Backed off the hammer spring until the 8.4 gr diablo fields were between 890-900 and only filled to 2500psi. I can only shoot 25 yrds at my house so my groups went from about a quarter at 980-1000 fps to under a dime at 890-900. Not fantastic I realize but much better and plenty sufficient for pest birds within 50yrd. What I bought the gun for

 

[Njones6871]

I'm going to try the barracuda match next at 880. Only wish I lived next to a high end airgun dealer so i could get top quality ammo immediately . Thanks for the info

, Nick 

 

[dreamweaver]

One other thing to note about backing off the hammer spring.....it seemed to have been loctited from the factory. Once the adjustment screw/bolt/whatever it’s called, broke loose, there was little resistance to prevent it from continuing to rotate and I worried it would rotate off adjustment as it was shot. And that’s exactly what happened. A tin or so of pellets and the velocity changed.

Rather than completely tearing it apart to add the loctite, I cut part of an eraser off a pencil and wedged it between that black plastic end cap and the adjustment bolt. I then used black electrical tape to hold the black end cap in place so the eraser was sandwiched against the adjustment bolt, preventing it from rotating.