Air Arms Stoger X10 is very pellet sensitive....

[Rapidrob]

The high scope rings showed up today ( see my earlier post ) and I mounted the Vortex 3.5-20 power scope on the rifle.
Weather was breezy with 10-15 mile per hour gust, 81 degrees F and sunny.
I fired from the bench and the rifle had a clean bore. Distance was 25 yards.
I know this is not a match rifle as it is not meant to be.
I tried three other pellets I have on hand and noted the rifle likes the wad-cutter .177 pellets over the pointed type hands down. The pointed pellets are a little heavier and perhaps the rifling twist rate will not stabilize them as needed? Not sure. The pointed pellets were wobbling in flight ( see holes in paper ).
The wad-cutter pellets did an OK job. I will need to try and find a pointed pellet the rifle will shoot. The last target is Crossman Copperhead pellets and 25 shots.

 

[Stubbers]

Might be time for a re-barrel if you like the platform enough, that or stick with whatever food it digests best.

-Matt

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Don't use pointed pellets them daisy pointed are about as bad as they come .. heck I've had up to 7" flyers at 50 foot rack ..

Try crosman primer hollow points out for a lower cost everyday at Walmart alternative. ( a domed type)

Them old copperheads ..lol. I got a white box of them from like the early 80's.

Anyway your 2 pellet choices above may not be ideal for that gun and it's higher fps and longer distance..



Now for 10m -50'. The daisy black box wadcitter/ flat heads do ok for me. But still better in sub 600 fps..

 

[muddydogz]

Yes, the pointed are usually not very accurate in anything. Like others have said, give the cphp's a try or even cheaper yet the cp hunting pellets. They look semi pointed but fly a lot better than the pointed.

 

[Shuggoth]

I would try a variety of quality pellets like rws Superdomes, pointed and hobby as well as JSB and h&n of various styles and weights, those are all pretty budget pellets you tried so maybe a better pellet will help

 

[Shuggoth]

A good all round pellet that seems to work well in most guns is the H&N FTT, they seem to always shoot well, if you have some try those. Those work well in my Chinese springers which I assume the X10 is.

 

[Rapidrob]

Thanks guys for the pellet info. I'll try to find the H&N FTT.
a shooting buddy picked up a tin of SIG Dagger pellets to give a try.
Pellet choices here in Albuquerque are limited to Crossmen, Daisy and GAMO.
The rifles barrel when I got the rifle has less than 25 shots through it as the previous owned had trouble cocking the rifle.
The bore shows no wear or fouling.
Do "they" make a replacement barrel? A better barrel type?
I'm new to the modern air rifle world of shooting.

 

[TXRMike]

Big difference! Those WC's did great. You might find a round nose to match that WC. I use H&N FTT but I've had good luck with "Excite" from amazon, made by H&N I think and a lot cheaper. The Daisy flat-nosed, already mentioned, worked good for me too. They were about $6 for 250 pcs. and I like the belt pack.

 

[Rapidrob]

I will check out those pellets.
I took the screen out of my shop window ( windy here at 7,000 feet ASL ) and fired 10 shots off hand out the window using a standing cross sticks at 25 yards.
If I can get a decent trigger that breaks smoother than the OEM, I might be able to get the group a little smaller.
I've contacted a maker of adjustable triggers with no reply.
I will do a pellet test with other types as well as wad-cutters.
TXRMike, are those powder coated .22 bullets?

 

[TXRMike]

158 grain Powder Coat 357, Ford light Blue. There's actually a few handfuls of range scrap H&N's and JSB's cast in there.

 

[Rapidrob]

OK, they do look like the LEE tumble lube cast bullets. I do a lot of powder coating myself and have been able to push some of my PC'd cast bullets to 2,500 fps with no leading of the PC jacket failing when fired from my rifles.

 

[TXRMike]

That's exactly what mold it is. My only other mold right now is the Lee RN FP. I'm liking it too. Great report on the 2500 fps.

 

[Rapidrob]

I've been casting bullets since 1964. Nowadays everything from 71/2 shot to 1" In my line of work I could get free lead by the ton and did.
The powder coated bullets do OK out to 500 meters but beyond that if they are still super sonic the powder coating will start to melt from air friction and cause real accuracy problems. Same as the "ballistic-tip" bullets from a few years ago. They had to reformulate the plastic to withstand the heat.