Daisy .22 cal 15.27gr pells

Here is my thoughts on these pells.

Ordered some from daisy.com, regular price $8.40 on sale for $6.40 plus they offer a 10% discount. Shipped from Rogers, AR via FedEx ground (about $11). I got them in 2 days.

Lousy packing - they just threw them in a box with some wrinkled paper on top. They come in a blister pack similar to Crosman. One of the tops of the blister pack was torn off. Pellets seem none the worse. You would think that as long as Daisy has been in business they would have learned how to pack pells.

Web page says they have a screw lid. They do not. It does fit tight and you can feel the suction wanting to keep the lid on, then look out, it comes off all at once.

Pells are the dirtiest I have ever seen. They appear to be well lubed with lead dust, graphite, mold release or something.

Almost all have a very small nick or burr in the back of the skirt. Not bad but you can see it.

I will say my Bantam HR HP likes them better then JSB 13 grainers - however it absolutely hates the 13 grainers.

Very inconsistent. At 30 yds 8-10 would shoot good then one a 1/4 inch to the right, then left, then up, then 3-4 pellets on pellet, and then, well you get the picture.

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I bet that BIG hollow point would really mess up a critter - if you could hit it.






 
I bought some Daisy Pointed pellets and some Daisy wad cutters in .177 along time ago. The pointed pellets were worthless. Beyond 15 yards I would get shot gun like patterns. The wad cutters were at least usable for plinking but not a whole lot better. Ever since then I've been soured on that brand.

Fortunately for inexpensive pellets my local Wal-Mart has the Crosman Premier HP readily available and my guns shoot them well.
 
I ordered some to try last year when they were cheap on Amazon. Since the time I got into airgunning in 2012, every tin of Daisy pellets I tried had been hot garbage so I wasn't optimistic at all, but a few folks on GTA were having good results so I decided to roll the dice.

Turns out they group well in several rifles. Here's a couple of consecutive groups at 30 yards from a LW-barreled QB. The circle is the size of an aspirin:



Perfect for my typical pest control range of 30 - 40 yards.

And whereas I get no real expansion from the JSB Hades, the Daisies actually open up. They open up better even when the Hades have the benefit of considerably higher velocity:



They drop gray squirrels like a sledgehammer.

I ordered some more a couple of months ago direct from Daisy and they group just as well as the first ones. Best cheap pellet I've gotten in years. That used to be the territory of Crosman but everything I've gotten from them since 2015 has been pretty underwhelming.
 
Sure Matthias - got it from their web site. For some reason it is not on the tin.

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Yea nervoustrig - mine will shoot 8-10 consecutive shots really good also at my 30 yd range. But then the next 5 or so will group the size of a quarter, or stack themselves on top of each other. I haven't figured out why yet. Only shot a hundred or so, a lot more testing to do.

I have found the current Crosman pells shoot pretty darn good from my Bantam with the LW polygonal barrel - the domed better than the HPs. They don't shoot worth crap from my Hatsan SFP.


 
I ordered 10 tins over their 4th of july sale. Washed them in dawn and used my own case lube recipe with a little silicone spray added for lube. The work well in my PRod and make for cheap pesting/plinking. Yes the can sucks and is hard to open. They are almost a hollow point wadcutter. Weighed 10 of them in my powder scale and they were really close to the marked weight average.