New design AEA Pellets update & comparison to old design

[Superpete]

Morning yo all,
As you all know it, or not, AEA changed pellet design, I finally got my hands on batch of new pellets and I had old pellet design as well, went out and tested, little bit confusing results, new design pellets not doing so good, maybe they need more speed or tune, but apples to apples bad news, here is the video I made comparing pellets 60, 80 and 100 yards.

 

[beerthief]

Morning yo all,
As you all know it, or not, AEA changed pellet design, I finally got my hands on batch of new pellets and I had old pellet design as well, went out and tested, little bit confusing results, new design pellets not doing so good, maybe they need more speed or tune, but apples to apples bad news, here is the video I made comparing pellets 60, 80 and 100 yards.

nicely done , Thank You

 

[Cam Armstrong]

I finally just ordered some of these, receiving today. Looks like I may have missed the boat.

 

[Superpete]

My thoughts is that new style may need more speed, or not, I would hate to retune my gun to later find out that AEA went back to old style and this one batch was experimental, LOL

 

[rdtricks]

I see you are shooting a .30cal and wonder if the pellet design changes are for all calibers. Thanks for the nice video It was interesting to see the performance difference between such similar pellets.

 

[Superpete]

Sir, I am not sure if this change was done to one caliber or to all of them, but I don't like it, if old pellets shot soo well, why changing.

IF anyone recently bought some one pellets different caliber, please let us know.

thank you

 

[Dstrac]

Interesting information, I have like five tins of the original style in 45 gr. The inside of the skirt is tapered with a small flat circle in the middle. The .30 cal 45gr were sold out everywhere for a while. They may have different tooling now or it might be a different manufacturer making them? Thats too bad because they were an excellent pellet the way they were

 

[Superpete]

Yes sir.

 

[JaceSpace1369]

Morning yo all,
As you all know it, or not, AEA changed pellet design, I finally got my hands on batch of new pellets and I had old pellet design as well, went out and tested, little bit confusing results, new design pellets not doing so good, maybe they need more speed or tune, but apples to apples bad news, here is the video I made comparing pellets 60, 80 and 100 yards.

Why do these companies always change things for the worst?

 

[Superpete]

dont know, but they do like to mess with out emotions...

 

[ctshooter]

Wow - I'm so glad I came across this. I took my Sonoran out yesterday and my results were terrible compared with what it normally does. This now makes complete sense. I was shooting out of a cleaned and lubed tin which was a mix of the old style and the new style.

Now that I can clearly see there is a difference I am going to sort out all the old and new from the cleaned and lubed lot. I still have 3 new tins of the old style and now close to 20 tins of the new style after waiting nearly 4 months on a UA pre-order. I'm going to aim to do some 100 yard testing this weekend if I can find the time.

This type of crap is why there is no consistency in the airgun market. All the makers do it too JSB, NSA, Zans, now AEA who I had hoped would be a consistent source fo amazing ammo. Damn.......

 

[JaceSpace1369]

dont know, but they do like to mess with out emotions...

Actually looking back at the video could you resort 100yds with the gun mostly full of air? Or maybe tethered? I have a slight hunch that they started falling apart at the last 3 groups of the old style at 100yds because of the lower pressure in air.

 

[Superpete]

I am going back, clean liner and shoot 80 and 100 again.
My feeling is this, with wide open back of the pellet, pellet creates more drag and slows pellet down, even if you see my 60 yards, the new syle wae shooting lower already, probably worst BS, the problem just gets worst with the distance.
But I will reshoot 100 this weekend and I will try sending them faster, 900fps and maybe 920.
Stay tuned, stay subscribed.

 

[Centercut]

How do we know which we ordered? What I found is the head size on the ones that don’t shoot well are <7.64mm. The older ones that shot well were all 7.65 and 7.66mm. But the tins look the same and you can’t tell the difference.
Very sad…. Faster makes no difference.
I didn’t know the 45s were having the same issues as the 50.5. I guess it you’re going to mess something up, go big or go home.

 

[Superpete]

look on the bottom of the tin, new style has barcode on the sticker, check beginning of my video I show tins for comparison.

 

[gbmarcht]

Hope they haven’t changed by beloved 33.9’s

 

[greenbeans]

Man… that sucks… glad I stocked up heavily pre-tariffs but still, I’ll run out eventually…

 

[Superpete]

I know, but no matter how much you have, deep inside you know you going to run out, right? my fear is this, as soon as I tune gun, spend hundreds of pellets figuring out what works for this pellet, they change on us again, no notice, no announcement, just SURPRISE SURPRISE.

 

[mercado]

And that is why i only have one pellet shooter . A taipan mutant it shoots almost everything perfectly .. all else, slugs or bullets .

 

[Centercut]

look on the bottom of the tin, new style has barcode on the sticker, check beginning of my video I show tins for comparison.

All of them sold in the past year have that barcode and no sticker. I’m talking the 50.5 and not the 45