22 cal hunting pellet recommendations for Umarex Notos.

Mine loves 18 gr JSB s, dime size groups at 32yds w/o trying.. will kill any pigeon, squirrel or dove you want to shoot. Anything will kill a rabbit. Would kill groundhogs with well placed head shot.

I shoot CPHP's through mine, don't seem to expand and almost always pass through but they're cheap and shoot good

Been running the 15.9 FX Atomic (JSB Hades) in my son’s Notos.

Coinwa said:

Been running the 15.9 FX Atomic (JSB Hades) in my son’s Notos.

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Same here, out to 55 yds. Atomics shoot slightly better, but I have more Hades so I'm using them up. The difference isn't huge. It also shoots other 15.9 gr. very good. All in the 750 fps range.

Hades are NOT slugs but a pellet designed to spread & cause a wider wound channel. IF they work in your gun they do a great job but not all guns like them.

The Hades/Atomics are very effective because they do not “expand” in a traditional sense. The front of the pellet fattens on impact along the serrations, creating a larger frontal area, and expending energy…. but also creating some sharp edges (kind of like a Barnes X-bullet) causing more damage and usually penetrating a bit deeper than your common expanding pellet. They also exit more often than HPs of the same weight, due the deduction in frontal area and sharpness of the petals.

Here’s a .22 FX Atomic at 900fps into 4lbs of modeling clay. You can see the nasty edges on the recovered pellet, and the hefty wound channel. I would not want to get shot with one of these angry little pills!

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My Benjamin Marauder Pistol (Prod) is tuned to a little lower fpe than a Notos comes with. All 17 squirrels I've take with it were with non expanding pellets. They work great. At Prod velocities I do not want expansion because the penetration is not too much and I don't want less. I have used Crossman hollow points to take squirrels but they behave just like domed pellets at Prod velocity. My Prod's favorite is copper plated H&N FTTs.

I would just use whatever is most accurate in your gun. Placement is far more important than pellet design.