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The outdoorsman · Veteran Member

does anyone use or have experiance with the lead free skenco pellets?

2RCHA · Veteran Member

These are Excellent pellet's, and well worth the added cost when you buy them. I now use these pellet's exclusively for hunting, I've taken down "Jack's" at 45yds using Skenco type 1's @11gr with my modded B4, and "Snowshoe's" at 35yds using Skenco type 3's @8gr. with my modded Recon. As far as penetration goes, you'll usually find a clean exit in a skull shot leaving just the plastic sabot lodged somewhere in the brain. I've put them up against Prometheus pellet's, which come in at 9gr. and fall somewhere in beteween the Skenco, and Lead pellet's,,But in my Daisy 622x they Rock!,they're a little shorter than the Skenco round, so they easily fit into the magazine, I've chronied them at 600+fps, which is great for a pistol rated 400fps,,same goes for my 2240, and 2289(which are both lightly modified) M/V is 750+for the 2240, and 700fps for the 2289g @30 pump's(that's with Skenco's,,If I use Prometheus,add about another 25-50fps), Best is yet to come,,In my .177 B4(modded) I get over 1000fps with Skenco type 1's @ just under 6gr.,,and with my QB-D(also modded), Skenco's will give me a touch above 800fps,and with Prometheus 880fps consistantly. So, all in all I give Skenco(and Prometheus) Pellet's Two Thumb's Up.,,,and before anyone says" They Foul The Barrel",,I'll bet they've never even seen one,,Let alone fire any!, I,ve used 100's of these round's with absolutely no fouling of any kind,no stringers,and if your barrel is clean and lightly lubed before a shooting session,,Run a nice clean white flannel through when you're done,,you'll see nothing,,try that with Lead.

AirGunEric · Site Admin

You may have gotten lucky with those Prometheus pellets- most people who have tried them say they are terrible in respect to accuracy.

2RCHA · Veteran Member

I don't use the Prometheus pellet's for anything serious other than "plinking", but they are fun to shoot out of my 622x that's for sure,,When I did a penetration test between the two(test subject was an Aluminum/Tin? garbage can lid, distance roughly 10ft, Daisy 622x w/ fresh cartridge,25C temp) the Skenco's penetrated the lid completely leaving a nice hole with very little to no indentation,,the Prometheus on the other hand rarely made it through the lid, but left quite the dent though. I believe this is because of two factors, the shape of the pellet(minus the sabot), and where the concentration of kinetic energy is going,the Prometheus tip is more aptly shaped like a Diabolo, where as the Skenco has a more "Bullet" type shape to it,upon impact the energy on a prometheus pellet is spread out, where in the Skenco it's more concentrated towards the center.
On a side note, I tried that test with just about every pellet I had in my arsenal that day, and the only lead that came close to the "Non-Lead-Pellet" in penetration was "H&N" Rund-Kugeln's(round-ball's), none penetrated the lid, but they did manage to leave the same size of indentation as the Prometheus pellet's did, Wink

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