Air Gun Home :: View topic - UK Guys- Crosman "TracerPells"?

AirGunEric · Site Admin

I saw this on another forum and am wondering if any of you UK guys have tried them:

http://www.airsportdirect.com/acatalog/Ammo.html#a905

Crosman "TracerPells" which have a glow-in-the-dark skirt on them. Seems like an interesting idea (especially in something like a repeater like the Crosman 1077) to play with a bit- purely for entertainment I'm sure.

Do these things actually work reasonably well? And is it somewhat entertaining watching them fly?

I'm not sure why these don't seem to be available in North America- and there are very few notes on them, even on UK sites/forums.

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

These pellets have been available for quite a while in the UK, one of the guys at the local club brought some in last Winter, he does a bit of lamping and thought they would be useful.

they have a plastic skirt on a lead pellet, you have to shine a light on them to get them to work, I think they are something like luminous dials on a wristwatch. When he tried them in the club we could not see anything but outside in the dark you could see them if you were looking in the right place but what use they were I don't know.

I always though that the stuff they put on watch dials was radioactive and is banned in some Country's, if that is what it is?.

Al

AirGunEric · Site Admin

It could be radioactive- but that's "old technology" these days- there are all sorts of different things they add to stuff like paint that isn't radioactive. Maybe the fact they don't work very well is the reason! People in North America are close enough to Crosman's office to go over and smack 'em upside the head when things go bad. Very Happy