Vortek lamprey pellets
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Turboax, 
tell us more about those Vortek Lamprey Super Hollow Head pellets!
H&N makes them — that's got to be good.
What weight?
What shape do they actually have?
I went to the Vortek store website, but no pellets there...:
http://vortekproducts.com
Matthias
tell us more about those Vortek Lamprey Super Hollow Head pellets!
H&N makes them — that's got to be good.
What weight?
What shape do they actually have?
I went to the Vortek store website, but no pellets there...:
http://vortekproducts.com
Matthias
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Hi,
Very interesting. I have found no reference to this company in my records.
Do you have pictures of the actual pellet?
BR
Jörg
Very interesting. I have found no reference to this company in my records.
Do you have pictures of the actual pellet?
BR
Jörg
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I thought about a real photo, not a drawing.
But I have now found a picture on the Internet. No one here can remember that the pellet was made by us. So it must be quite old (pre-2000).
But I have now found a picture on the Internet. No one here can remember that the pellet was made by us. So it must be quite old (pre-2000).
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Vortek is an top notch Airgun tuner Company That’s been manufacturing their own products for a long time And I’ve been using the products for at least 27 years Maybe even more . The very first product I bought from Vortec Was a two piece moderator then short time later got the Vortec gas ram Break barrel patriot/Kodiak . Once a shot a PCP It was over for the break barrel on with AR6 hunting master with a custom long barrel and the power to break the sound barrier. Pellets don’t fly the best at that speed but at 30Yards or less most of my Shots and the lamprey what is my top choice
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Nice! 
So, what is the weight on those pellets — they seem to have an amazingly wide hollowpoint if I interpret the drawing on the tin correctly.
Matthias
So, what is the weight on those pellets — they seem to have an amazingly wide hollowpoint if I interpret the drawing on the tin correctly.
Matthias
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I’m pretty sure these are the last tins . I can’t remember the weight of the pellets. I’m trying not to open them
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I watch a lot videos on YouTube and feel these pallets are legendary. It’s like putting a pellets in backwards and having it fly straight.
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Flying Ashtray – The Vortek Lamprey Super Hollow Head
This must be a remarkable pellet. Read on:
An airgun seller with a history in UK airgunning of many decades published a list of old pellets. There he calls them as follows:
Reverse Hollow Point
He lists the following weights
.177cal | 8.8gr
.22cal | 15.2gr
Source: https://www.trrobb.com/page/pellet%20guide
The Godfather of Airguns (B.B. Pelletier aka Tom Gaylord) has been writing on airguns for decades – to this day he publishes several articles each week at PyramydAir (check it out!).
He did an article entitled: “Can you shoot pellets backwards? Introducing the Flying Ashtray”
It is “a wide-open hollowpoint that hits its target in an attitude that’s ready to expand dramatically. There used to be a pellet made that way, and very curiously, it resembled a diabolo pellet loaded backwards – hence the title of today’s post. I’m referring to the Vortek Lamprey.
The Lamprey has a huge mouth (Vortek called it a hollow head pellet), like its namesake, and a tiny shallow skirt. It seems wrong to load it the right way – as though the maker somehow reversed the directions.
Yet, it’s reasonably accurate and is one of the few hollowpoint pellets that performs well at slower speed.
The walls of the hollowpoint are thick, but this is a pure lead pellet, so it mushrooms well and holds together even better.”
Source: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2007/10/can-you-shoot-pellets-backwards-introducing-the-flying-ashtray/
The Performance of the Flying Ashtray: by B.B. Pelletier
“Vortek Lamprey Hollow Head pellets were among the first to experiment with new shapes, and they actually turned inside-out when they deformed.
To this date I have not seen an expanding pellet that could equal what they could do. [...]
Source: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2016/05/the-rise-of-the-accurate-pellet-part-3/
The Performance of the Flying Ashtray – according by Larry Gibson
“With the [RWS] M54 .22 cal (800 fps with 14.3 gr CPs) I shoot to 90 yards. With weighed pellets it will shoot right at 1" at that range if the wind is not blowing. Past 90 yards the pellets lose stability and go wherever. [...]
The Vortex Lampreys have a gaping HP and look somewhat like a Crow Magnum loaded backwards. These are very deadly on rabbits out to 40 yards (accuracy goes south past that) and are the only pellet I will regularly use for a heart/lung shot on jack rabbits or animals of comparable size.”
Source: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?46807-Airgun-recommendations&s=ac7a9c1c9b9fb902809a5c8ff9a776dc
Well, H&N – da habt ihr was richtig Gutes produziert, schon vor dem Jahr 2000! – You produced something remarkable even pre-2000. I'd love to see you make a pellet like that again – soft lead and huge hollow point – so that the low-powered guns also get to enjoy a mushrooming pellet.
Cheers,
Matthias
This must be a remarkable pellet. Read on:
An airgun seller with a history in UK airgunning of many decades published a list of old pellets. There he calls them as follows:
Reverse Hollow Point
He lists the following weights
.177cal | 8.8gr
.22cal | 15.2gr
Source: https://www.trrobb.com/page/pellet%20guide
The Godfather of Airguns (B.B. Pelletier aka Tom Gaylord) has been writing on airguns for decades – to this day he publishes several articles each week at PyramydAir (check it out!).
He did an article entitled: “Can you shoot pellets backwards? Introducing the Flying Ashtray”
It is “a wide-open hollowpoint that hits its target in an attitude that’s ready to expand dramatically. There used to be a pellet made that way, and very curiously, it resembled a diabolo pellet loaded backwards – hence the title of today’s post. I’m referring to the Vortek Lamprey.
The Lamprey has a huge mouth (Vortek called it a hollow head pellet), like its namesake, and a tiny shallow skirt. It seems wrong to load it the right way – as though the maker somehow reversed the directions.
Yet, it’s reasonably accurate and is one of the few hollowpoint pellets that performs well at slower speed.
The walls of the hollowpoint are thick, but this is a pure lead pellet, so it mushrooms well and holds together even better.”
Source: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2007/10/can-you-shoot-pellets-backwards-introducing-the-flying-ashtray/
The Performance of the Flying Ashtray: by B.B. Pelletier
“Vortek Lamprey Hollow Head pellets were among the first to experiment with new shapes, and they actually turned inside-out when they deformed.
To this date I have not seen an expanding pellet that could equal what they could do. [...]
Source: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2016/05/the-rise-of-the-accurate-pellet-part-3/
The Performance of the Flying Ashtray – according by Larry Gibson
“With the [RWS] M54 .22 cal (800 fps with 14.3 gr CPs) I shoot to 90 yards. With weighed pellets it will shoot right at 1" at that range if the wind is not blowing. Past 90 yards the pellets lose stability and go wherever. [...]
The Vortex Lampreys have a gaping HP and look somewhat like a Crow Magnum loaded backwards. These are very deadly on rabbits out to 40 yards (accuracy goes south past that) and are the only pellet I will regularly use for a heart/lung shot on jack rabbits or animals of comparable size.”
Source: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?46807-Airgun-recommendations&s=ac7a9c1c9b9fb902809a5c8ff9a776dc
Well, H&N – da habt ihr was richtig Gutes produziert, schon vor dem Jahr 2000! – You produced something remarkable even pre-2000. I'd love to see you make a pellet like that again – soft lead and huge hollow point – so that the low-powered guns also get to enjoy a mushrooming pellet.
Cheers,
Matthias
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