.22 JTS Takedown Pellets .22 25.39 gr Excellent

[Danman]

I’m guessing all of the imported pellets will be getting a price hike her in the U.S. soon, with a huge one for the Chinese imports. So, as I find ones that work, I’ll stock up on them. I would like to narrow my pellets and slugs down to a couple brands/sizes for each caliber. I wasn’t expecting to get back into airgun shooting as heavy as I have. As much as I’m shooting right now and only plinking and target shooting I can make use of most of the ones that I don’t like. So far I’ve only found three tins that I don’t like to shoot at all: a tin of Crossman Premier Predators and two tins of Barra pellets. At some point I will launch those at the steel plate.

I personally plan to sell all my 4.51 pellets and just shoot what works. Someone will want em....even when plinking I want pellets that I know are good.
Do you guys clean your barrels much when switching pellets? I never have and have never had any issues. I'll often start with Jsb, then meander to trying H&N, Crosmans, Jts, etc and then end off with the Jsbs again. I always like to compare first and last groups with the same pellets and see if accuracy changed. As far as I'm concerned, NSA needs to start a pellet line for you guys!

 

[Pumacarl]

When I first work with a gun that's new to me, I will pull a patch at the very least, between different pellets/slugs. I always have nagging concerns if I don't afterwards. I will usually just fire around 10 shots over a chrony first too, and not at a target either. After that I will start to check groups. If I am not switching brands, just weights, I will not do anything and just shoot. If you switch lead types and you don't want to pull patch, shoot at least 20 shots before shooting groups. After you do all of this and have a baseline then you can just try switching between everything and see how your gun handles it, instead of guessing or assuming. After I have picked a projectile and a speed I will shoot a couple of shots a day, to check consistency, over a couple of weeks. Then I know.

 

[Billm]

JTS .22 Takedown 21.53gr vs JSB Exact jumbo Monster .22 25.39gr pellets at 25yds. The wind was only 2-5mph this morning so I thought I’d shoot two side-by-side groups of these pellets. Unfortunately I was out of the comparable weight in the JTS pellets and so I used a lighter pellet. The JSB did way better today out of the same tin. So I’ll put the previous group down to variable winds. Remember that I’m shooting a painted steel plate and so the groups are a lot smaller than they appear. When the pellets hit the plate, they don’t mushroom, they completely pancake.
10 shot groups at 25yds. The group on the right is with the JTS pellets.
I’m impressed with either pellet. Maybe I will place the chronograph down range when I get some more pellets that equal in weight. I added an image of the flattened pellets for reference.

 

[Billm]

I shot a few strings at 50yds with the JTS 21.53gr pellets and recorded both the muzzle and down range velocities. The AoA Two distance Bc calculator gave a BC of 0.03596339636643408