skenco lead-free pellets .177 8.5g review

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Average Ratings

Value for Money	8.2/10
Reviewer Rating	9.2/10
Overall Rating	9.3/10

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By trailgoon on 22nd Dec 2006

trailgoon's Ratings

Value for money	10/10
Overall value	10/10
trailgoon's recommendation

Good Points

Accurate.
Excellent for hunting medium sized game.
Plastic sabot makes them extremely easy to load.
Lead free.

Bad Points

2-3 times more expensive than premium lead pellets.
Only available mail order, so price is even higher.
Advertised pellet weights are often inaccurate, so weigh and chrono yourself.

General Comments

Skenco pellets provide impressive results on raccoon and possum size game. Proper shot placement and rifle power are required, but a 900+ fps rifle provides one shot drops 90% of the time on adult raccoons weighing up to 40 lbs at 5-15m! A friend claims coyote kills with headshots at short range. Accuracy is excellent if you don't go hypersonic. These are not squirrel pellets as they will severely over-penetrate small game. These pellets are for the, as my organic gardening friends call them, 'fertilizer on the hoof' ransacking your cherry trees at midnight.

The core is a tin-aluminum alloy in a plastic sabot, so the plastic provides an excellent gas seal and the alloy never touches the barrel. At about .06/pellet, they're about three times the price of superdomes and a little pricy for plinking, so I just shoot them to chrono and work up scope data, then just hunt organic fertilizer with them.

I just ordered 500 more rounds. . .

Total Respect: +1