I always try to orient my practice sessions around something I might be able to learn. Over the past several days on this AGN forum there have been various discussions regarding the comparative performance of JTS and other pellets.
Today dawned 17 degrees in Indiana and so for my daily shooting session, I decided to create an indoor range educational opportunity. Five of my various .22 rifles are tuned to shoot the .22 25.4 gr pellets. While visiting the Pyramid Cup earlier this fall, I picked up a sample tin of the JTS 25.4 grains, with more than half of it gone. I also had received from AOA with the purchase of a Wolverine R HP a tin of Rangemaster King 25.38 pellets. My "go to" pellets heretofore have been the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned and the FX 25.4 pellets. I had just enough of the JTS 25.4 pellets left to shoot two ten shot groups each through three rifles. So I arbitrarily picked my Ken Hicks SPAW tuned Red Wolf HP, my RAW HM1000X Chassis, and my Brocock Sniper Magnum XR.
Setting up on the 18 yard indoor range behind the Caldwell Chrono, I proceeded to shoot two ten shot groups of each pellet series with each of the three rifles. While 18 yards may not seem like enough distance to test, my experience over the years is that distance is very relative, and the group comparisons size correlations will translate downrange.
Below you will find a chart showing the results output. Note that the JTS 25.4s slightly beat out the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned pellets utilizing an average of the best two shot groups with the four rifles results combined, but the difference was miniscule and could have been the result of a single out-of-round skirt or even shooter error. But the difference between the lowest average to the highest average was significant given the close yardage.
With regards to the rifles, the Red Wolf bested the RAW by a small margin, but both were significantly more accurate than the Brocock. Note that at 18 yards sub MOA translates to <.18. Both the RAW and the Red Wolf performed at sub MOA levels, with the best 10 shot group measuring only .08" C-T-C, about as close to one hole as at least I can get.
Given all of the above, at 75 yards or less, with any of these rifle and any of these pellets, I don't think a squirrel or a crow will be able to ascertain a difference between any of these pellet's performance.
Just another fun practice exercise. The take away for me is going forward, I will be purchasing either the JTS 25.4 or the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned pellets when my inventory starts to dwindle (probably a few years out, LOL).
Today dawned 17 degrees in Indiana and so for my daily shooting session, I decided to create an indoor range educational opportunity. Five of my various .22 rifles are tuned to shoot the .22 25.4 gr pellets. While visiting the Pyramid Cup earlier this fall, I picked up a sample tin of the JTS 25.4 grains, with more than half of it gone. I also had received from AOA with the purchase of a Wolverine R HP a tin of Rangemaster King 25.38 pellets. My "go to" pellets heretofore have been the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned and the FX 25.4 pellets. I had just enough of the JTS 25.4 pellets left to shoot two ten shot groups each through three rifles. So I arbitrarily picked my Ken Hicks SPAW tuned Red Wolf HP, my RAW HM1000X Chassis, and my Brocock Sniper Magnum XR.
Setting up on the 18 yard indoor range behind the Caldwell Chrono, I proceeded to shoot two ten shot groups of each pellet series with each of the three rifles. While 18 yards may not seem like enough distance to test, my experience over the years is that distance is very relative, and the group comparisons size correlations will translate downrange.
Below you will find a chart showing the results output. Note that the JTS 25.4s slightly beat out the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned pellets utilizing an average of the best two shot groups with the four rifles results combined, but the difference was miniscule and could have been the result of a single out-of-round skirt or even shooter error. But the difference between the lowest average to the highest average was significant given the close yardage.
With regards to the rifles, the Red Wolf bested the RAW by a small margin, but both were significantly more accurate than the Brocock. Note that at 18 yards sub MOA translates to <.18. Both the RAW and the Red Wolf performed at sub MOA levels, with the best 10 shot group measuring only .08" C-T-C, about as close to one hole as at least I can get.
Given all of the above, at 75 yards or less, with any of these rifle and any of these pellets, I don't think a squirrel or a crow will be able to ascertain a difference between any of these pellet's performance.
Just another fun practice exercise. The take away for me is going forward, I will be purchasing either the JTS 25.4 or the JSB Jumbo Monster Redesigned pellets when my inventory starts to dwindle (probably a few years out, LOL).
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