I tried the clipping off on my 30 cal Wildcat. Magazine kept jamming, and being that the pellet probe end on the wildcat 30 is barely a strand of wire, I didn’t wanna chance damaging the probe. And when I did shoot at targets, they were awful.
But, so happens my 30 cal Hercules Bully loves them, even more so than the Vortex pellets that were shooting great in that gun, I sure like how hatsan designed the magazine for the Bully’s, nice and deep, along with how it has a self centering lock probe that guarantees a non jam ever.
Either predator needs to redesign or offer a shortie version to cater to the thinner mags in a 25 and 30 caliber, or what I’d rather see is H&N come up with a 30 caliber Barracuda Hunter extreme or a crow magnum. I’ve emailed H&N regarding this, as no one has a hollow point pellet in a 30 cal(not counting the mile long predators), and never got a reply back.