Thought a quick check on google and on AGN would answer this but no luck. Anyone know what pellets the Olympic 10 Meter Air Rifle shooters are using?
Olympics Ammo
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For the 10 meter air rifle and air pistol disciplines, match-grade diabolo pellets are used. These pellets are wadcutter, meaning the pellet head is nearly completely flat, which leaves smooth-edged round holes in paper targets and allows easy gauging for scoring. Match pellets are offered in tins and more elaborate packagings that avoid deformation and other damage that could impair their uniformity.
Match air rifle shooters are encouraged to perform shooting group tests with their gun clamped in a machine rest to establish which particular match pellet type performs best for their particular air gun.[3]To facilitate maximum performance out of various air guns the leading match pellet manufacturers produce pellets with graduated "head sizes", which means the pellets are offered with front diameters from 4.48 mm (0.176 in) up to 4.52 mm (0.178 in).
However at higher and top competitive levels, even these variations are thought too coarse-grained and match pellets are batch-tested; that is, the specific gun is mounted in a machine rest test rig and pellets from a specific production run on a specific machine with the same ingredients fed into the process (a batch) are test-fired through the gun.[4] Many different batches will be tested in this manner, and the pellets which give the smallest consistent group size without fliers (shots which fall outside of the main group) will be selected (small but inconsistent group sizes are not useful to a top competitor); and the shooter will then purchase several tens of thousands of pellets from that batch. Group sizes of 4.5 mm (0.177 in) diameter are theoretically possible, but practically shot groups of 5.0 mm (0.197 in) are considered highly competitive.[5] Unbatched ammunition, especially if the air gun is not regularly cleaned, is generally thought to be capable of only 8.0 mm (0.315 in) diameter group sizes. Batch-testing match pellets for a particular gun is not generally thought to be worthwhile until the shooter reaches a high proficiency level (around the 95% level i.e 570 for the qualification round).
For the 10 meter air rifle and air pistol disciplines, match-grade diabolo pellets are used. These pellets are wadcutter, meaning the pellet head is nearly completely flat, which leaves smooth-edged round holes in paper targets and allows easy gauging for scoring. Match pellets are offered in tins and more elaborate packagings that avoid deformation and other damage that could impair their uniformity.
Match air rifle shooters are encouraged to perform shooting group tests with their gun clamped in a machine rest to establish which particular match pellet type performs best for their particular air gun.[3]To facilitate maximum performance out of various air guns the leading match pellet manufacturers produce pellets with graduated "head sizes", which means the pellets are offered with front diameters from 4.48 mm (0.176 in) up to 4.52 mm (0.178 in).
However at higher and top competitive levels, even these variations are thought too coarse-grained and match pellets are batch-tested; that is, the specific gun is mounted in a machine rest test rig and pellets from a specific production run on a specific machine with the same ingredients fed into the process (a batch) are test-fired through the gun.[4] Many different batches will be tested in this manner, and the pellets which give the smallest consistent group size without fliers (shots which fall outside of the main group) will be selected (small but inconsistent group sizes are not useful to a top competitor); and the shooter will then purchase several tens of thousands of pellets from that batch. Group sizes of 4.5 mm (0.177 in) diameter are theoretically possible, but practically shot groups of 5.0 mm (0.197 in) are considered highly competitive.[5] Unbatched ammunition, especially if the air gun is not regularly cleaned, is generally thought to be capable of only 8.0 mm (0.315 in) diameter group sizes. Batch-testing match pellets for a particular gun is not generally thought to be worthwhile until the shooter reaches a high proficiency level (around the 95% level i.e 570 for the qualification round).
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My daughter shoots 10M air, now NCAA in college. Therefore I have been hanging out in the 10M scene for a while now. Serious shooters pellet test their rifles. Most common pellet used in matches (my guess) is the RWS R10. That is of course if the rifle likes them. It also depends on lot numbers of that pellet. RWS Meisterklugen (sp?) are used. Some rifles they test better than the R10. The Chinese pellets, QYS, are being used a lot, maybe as much or more than the RWS R10. I know when we visited the Air Force Academy rifle team they had determined thru their testing the QYS pellets were the best and that was all they used. I believe a lot of Olympic shooters use them. My daughter’s rifle has been pellet tested numerous times with RWS pellets on her high school range and R10’s (don’t know the specific lot numbers) were the best. Her rifle was pellet tested over the summer at the Olympic Training Center by their gunsmith and QYS was best (it was not the QYS match but practice pellet). I do see some Vogels. I hardly see pellets from JSB or H&N, both brands I like. I am sure they are fine and not sure why I don’t see more of them (maybe used more in Europe?). Like said above they only use flat nose, wad cutter pellets. You would have to be really, really, really good to see the difference in your scores between what test best in your rifle and the RWS Basic pellet. My daughter’s HS team practiced everyday with RWS Basics and switched to whatever pellet tested best in their rifle on match day. Colleges seem to use match day pellets everyday. I fool around shooting both 10M Rifle & Pistol and shoot Vogel & RWS Basics. I am not set up to do any real pellet testing but found they both shoot little tiny groups. Much better then my offhand skills.
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You could look at h&n finale match pellets .. but thems comsumer tins .
the Olympic shooters test lots of " personal hand selected " die runs direct from the manufacturer..
As in there not buying tins from amazon or pyramid air .lol
www.hn-sport.de
Jsb " match". Blue rifle - green pistol
www.jsbdiabolo.com
the Olympic shooters test lots of " personal hand selected " die runs direct from the manufacturer..
As in there not buying tins from amazon or pyramid air .lol
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www.hn-sport.de Jsb " match". Blue rifle - green pistol
JSB diabolo - MATCH pellets
The MATCH series consists of the original models of JSB pellets and their tradition dates back to 1991. It is top competition ammunition known around the world. The high precision of processing of these pellets is characteristic of the whole range of pellets. Matches undergo a very careful...
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Here is a place you can get some of those pellets
sportshootingdepot.com
Pellets Archives - Sport Shooting Depot
<p>Airgun pellets for training and competition</p>
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I took a look. Thanks. Are those H&N pellets the same ones we buy without the Champions Choice name on them or are they specially sorted, or specially made?
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That I don't know. I would guess them as being single die, since they're being sold as match grade.
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Unless you are a top level competitor shooting 10M I would just call Neal Stepp at ISS (yes you need to call him he is 81 and doesn’t really do the internet) and order a sleeve of RWS Basics for around $60. This guy has everything when it comes to ISSF shooting sports. A really nice guy too. http://www.iss-internationalshootersservice.com/. He was a top level competitor himself and former TCU rifle team coach. He buys pellets by the pallets and has boxes of pellets stacked up everywhere. Whatever 10M pellet you want he has them. Except Vogel. Buy Vogel from Vogel in CO Springs.
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