GAMO Flat Nose .22 Caliber Match Pellets (Tin of 250)

My .22 Pellet Testing Roundup in a Crosman 2240 CO2 pellet pistol. I shoot handheld at 10 meters (33 feet) indoors with a 3x-7x Winchester scope I bought on Amazon for thirty-nine bucks. In my Crosman 2240 every pellet tumbled and left a keyhole shape hole in paper targets. In my 1250fps break barrel rifles this happens when I try to use flat nose wadcutters. Wadcutters like lower fps or lighter weight wad cutter pellets according to some. After I cut the hammer spring about 3.5-4 coils this went away and I also get around 70 shots per CO2 cartridge as opposed to barely 40 before cutting the coil.HERE ARE THE RESULTS FROM BEST TO WORST:-Umarex RWS “Hobby” Sport Line flat nose wadcutters: these are so accurate I shot once and it hits the center of an X I drew in pencil on a piece of paper. The second shot went so perfectly through the first pellet’s hole I had to walk over and see if I missed the target entirely? Nope-the 2nd shot went right through the hole from the first shot. The 3rd, 4th and 5th shots did the same thing until there was a single, slightly larger than normal pellet hole in the center of the target. LASER-LIKE PERFECTION!!!!!-Daisy Flat Nosed Pellets: 500 in a tin and ultra-cheap. I can put 4 through the same hole, but the 5th usually is a flyer about 0.5" away. Really great performance at a really cheap price! The Daisy pellets leave a shocking amount of graphite(?) and/or lead on the fingers. Load one Daisy pellets and your fingers will be black (not grey). The pellets are black, not grey as well. It’s not lead, because my fingers stay black after scrubbing them in the sink. I go back and forth between whether the Daisy or the Gamo are better. -Gamo Match Diablo wadcutters: these are just as good as the Daisy Flat Nose pellets EXCEPT the 5th “flyer” is usually closer to 1”-2” off target. Not a big deal, but not as good as the Umarex RWS Hobby with ZERO flyers. The Gamos opened and spilled in transit, but these are very accurate in my Crosman 2240. My next order included Gamo pellets and someone took the time to scotch tape them shut (thank you!) so they wouldn’t spill everywhere. I go back and forth between whether the Daisy or the Gamo are better. These are also really cheap, and show up for less than four bucks as a free add-on for Prime users.-Gamo Magnum Energy “Spire” Point: these looked HORRIBLE in the tin, many skirts were malformed and the casting flash was so bad it looks like they are designed with two full-body fins running from tail to point…however: they really weren’t that bad. Shots 1-3 were fairly close (not same hole) but there would be 1 or 2 flyers in the a group of 5 that would go in random directions about 3” off target. Still, I was very surprised these did so well.-Excite “Plinkin”: these came with the same exact sealing sticker around it as the ‘fancier’ H&N targets (see below) so maybe they’re made in the same factory? When I saw that I had high hopes. Funny is that they were awful and the H&N were even worse! The 2nd shot was about 3” from the 1st, and the 3rd shot was the same distance in the opposite direction, the next two shots were also just all over the place. No point in using these in my particular pistol.-Crosman Premier Hollow Point: this is a rounded head pellet with a big dimple in the front. They’re cheap and come in a 500 tin pellet. These pellets are made by the same people as my pistol. The result however is even worse than the Excite pellets: you aim at the center of the target and take 5 shots. They end up 4” away from each other. The Crosman are so bad I thought my scope was broken! Seriously! I was in danger of missing the paper target complete with these-once at the top, once to the left, once to the right and just wacky performance. Bizarre! I literally starting swearing out loud thinking my scope was destroyed. Then I loaded some other pellets and everything was fine. I went back to the Crosmans again and again over the weeks and they’re always just awful!-H&N Sport Field Target: these have what looks like a bb stuck into the front of them. DANGEROUSLY INACCURATE. The only thing worse than the Crosmans in my pistol. Again, it’s difficult to keep these on the 8.5”x11” target, let along the tiny little pencil eraser sized bulls eye! So fancy. So expensive. So bad. I was really surprised!So there you have it. If you have a Crosman 2240 you should give the Umarex/RWS “Hobby” flat nosed sport wadcutters a try. You fire 5 shots-see a single hole and worry you missed the paper completely-until you walk up to the target and see 5 pellets in the same hole. Nice!I also highly recommend the Winchester 3x-7x air gun scope. Sooo much fun being zoomed into your target!I’m a librarian by day, at night I kill racoons with .177 hollowpoints; but with .22s I'm going for paper targets. Kind of backwards I know, but I have fun.By the way: In .177 Benjamin HP's are the best in my Gamo Silent Cat rifle, and my Crosman Fury likes Gamo Tomahawk pellets: I've tried about 13 different pellets so far in the rifles so far.The point? Keep trying different pellets in all your guns. With my two break barrels (and a really old break barrel I found in a garbage can) I can put pellet after pellet through the same hole with the aforementioned pellets. The garbage can rifle is about 40 years old and only shoots around 500fps or less—and shoots perfectly with pretty much any pellet. Same with an old 10 pump I have: bull’s-eye after bull’s-eye.Oh, the best thing you can do for a neat pellet trap is to: fill the bottom of an empty yellow kitty litter bucket with 12 pounds of Electricians putty (not plumber putty-electrician putty). Tip the bucket on it’s side and the putty will stop hunting rounds out of a 1250fps .177 Gamo Silent Cat break barrel rifle and .22 Crosman 2240 pistol.Photos attached. My .177 reviews have pics of the actual targets. For these pellets I’m putting photos of my electricians putty pellet catcher (and the tins of pellets with the best at top and worst at bottom).I think if you click my reviewer name “-“ it’ll take you to my other reviews. If not, oh well,-Mike from Detroit

these pellets work good in the Nitro venom .22 I am using them in at 30-32m. after gun has had a dozen or so shots fired it titen's up. the groups are about 1 1/2"- 2"s not to bad, after 25-30 shots it titen's even more, about 1" good enough for a kill shot on pigeons or rats. Need to look into night scope next.

These pellets are awesome. I have a Gamo magnum and I used these pellets for close range on squirrels and they are show stoppers. Good all around short range Gamo target pellet.

These are only good for target shooting. They do not penetrate or carry enough force to do any significant damage.These are pretty accurate and a good value. They punch a decent circle in targets.If you have a score to settle with some squirrels, you should get some round or conical nose pellets. They will do more damage.

These are ok pellets. Sizing is not consistent with a lot of loose fitting pellets. They're reasonably accurate and would be ok for hunting squirrels or rabbits at fairly close range but these are by no means match grade pellets. Even at close range I wouldn't try anything bigger than a bunny. Tougher animals like Coyote, Raccoon, or even Jacks require pinpoint accuracy for a humane kill with a 15 grain pellet. I just don't trust these pellets enough to make such a shot.However they are nose heavy so they would probably perform pretty well out of a smooth bore but I have a 31 FPE gun (Eat your hearts out Brits!) and these pellets don't perform well enough for much but plinking with my gun. They do seem to hit pretty hard and penetrate very well but a hard hitting miss is still a miss. Your mileage may vary.

An accurate pellet. Using these through my Benjamin Titan NP with decent results. With these I have been able to produce fairly tight groups at 100m with relative ease using a 3-9x56mm scope. So far they have only been used for target practice and killing milk jugs full of water but laying 4 filled jugs back to back and shooting from about 50-55m these pellets with the above setup easily passed through 3 jugs and settled in to the 4th which was further then all but 1 of 6 various weights/style pellets used.

Suprisingly very accurate

These are the most accurate pellets that I have shot, so far, with my .22 cal. Stoeger X20S2 pellet rifle. (I've shot about 5 different variety of pellets, so far).Very consistent shot placement with literally no fliers.