H&N Baracuda 18 - a new kid in the .22-town

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Are you looking for a highly accurate, hard hitting, medium weight pellet in .22 cal.? An extremely versatile and consistent pellet which shoots well from many air guns? Clean, with tight tolerances in weight and diameter? Your answer is the new H&N Baracuda 18.

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What’s the pellet's purpose? Our goal was to launch a new high-end, all-purpose pellet for longer distances – a pellet that’s perfect for target shooting, hunting and pest control. The chosen weight of 18.13 grain/ 1.175 g closes the gap between the well-known H&N Baracuda Match and H&N Field Target Trophy. This weight makes it suitable for sub 12-ft.lbs air guns which are very popular in the UK.

So far, they were successfully tested at 50 yards in the following guns (in alphabetical order):

AGN Vulcan 2
Air Arms S510
Air Venturi Avenger
BSA R10
Daystate Safari
FX Crown
FX Dreamline
FX Impact
Hatsan AT44-10
Kral Puncher Breaker
Umarex Gauntlet
Weihrauch HW 100

In all of them, the pellets were repeatedly able to produce shot groups of an inch and less (10 shots).

The H&N Baracuda 18 is long enough to be fed reliably into the barrel, but not too long to jam magazines. The pellets will be available in the common head size of 5.52 mm and are packed in secure screw-one tins of 200.

The new pellet will be available in the US at the end of April. Other countries will follow soon.

Best regards

Jörg

H&N Sport
 
I was lucky enough to get two tins of these a couple of months back, they shoot really well at distances upto and including 100 yards in both my standard rifled LW barrel on my Daystate Redwolf and also the longer poly barrel on the Redwolf HP on the low power curve.

I also tested them in my FX Crown with the 380mm SUPERIOR barrel and the weight is perfect for this barrel length, plus in the older STX liner 500mm where you get more velocity but at the expense of a not so compact barrel!

I also love the screw top tin, great for carrying in your pocket over a 500 tin size which I always seem to spill everywhere, looking forward to stocking up on these, give them a try you won't be dissapointed!
 
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The per-round pricing HAS to be competitive with JSB 18s. Using Pyramyd Air pricing as a baseline, I can get FX branded 18.1 grain pellets for 3.2 cents per round.

4 tins (2000 pellets) shipped with tax = $64.36

Let's learn from Crosman... I was excited when they announced their 19 grain .22 pellet. Their price per pellet ended up being 5.6 cents each. How many of those tins did I buy? Zero. 

On a different note, my Cricket II did great with H&N Baracuda Match 5.51mm but not so well with the other variants. What exact head size will these new pellets be?
 
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The per-round pricing HAS to be competitive with JSB 18s. Using Pyramyd Air pricing as a baseline, I can get FX branded 18.1 grain pellets for 0.032 cents per round.

4 tins (2000 pellets) shipped with tax = $64.36

Let's learn from Crosman... I was excited when they announced their 19 grain .22 pellet. Their price per pellet ended up being 0.056 cents each. How many of those tins did I buy? Zero. 

On a different note, my Cricket II did great with H&N Baracuda Match 5.51mm but not so well with the other variants. What exact head size will these new pellets be?
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I think you mean dollars, not cents.
 
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BC of 0.029, that sounds good! 👍🏼😊

And converted from G1 to GA it's probably even better.... 👍🏼



🔶 I often have problems with my JSB pellets — JSB's are made from lead that is so soft that the skirts deform.

Sometimes during shipping (I can't always buy from the companies that employ shipping professionals....),

and sometimes they just deform in the field....



➔ I'm going to like an 18-grainer that is made from lead less sensitive to normal use and transport. 👍🏼



Thanks, H&N, for keeping up developing stuff for us! 😊

Matthias






 
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Well I double and triple check the weight on three different scales and it appears that there are a little bit less than the listed weight. 17.9 grain is what I measured.

I'm okay with that because the tins are filled according to weight and so you're going to have a couple extras. Of course if I was going to be using these for target practice I might want to weigh them more accurately with a milligram scale. Currently I'm only at two decimal points and would like to go three or four but I group them in batches of 10 to get a feel for the weight. 

Comparing these to something made in Spain by a company who purports to be the largest manufacturer of such items on the planet which is quite laughable these are extremely clean and have very little flashing and it appears that the weight is fairly consistent from pellet to pellet as best I could tell. 

I bought three tens of these and decided to go ahead and try the rabbit magnums. I'll save those for some time when I change my regulator up a few hundred more PSI and crank the hammer up a little harder too!

I'm kind of surprised that there's not too many YouTube videos about the rabbit magnums and most of the comments that I've seen are they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from inside the barn so I have four different pcps to test them on. I'm guessing that the Seneca Eagle claw might be good because of the power.
 
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