Hi Ian, that sounds totally plausible. Might be why some say that springers will drift less in the wind than PCPs. Thanks for sharing. 😀👍

I expect they'll definitely drop more but will they still group well? Another test to go on the list. 🙂👍

No complaints so far. my neighbours' properties are quite well spaced and I tend to pick my moments to shoot. When I do shoot in the garden it's for an hour tops and I'm always 'moderated'. I wonder sometimes whether they actually know that I'm shooting?

Yes, I expected a lot more drift than that. 😀👍

I think you may be confused? The measurements that you mention; 4.50, 4.51, 4.52, are in fact the pellet head sizes not skirt sizes. In my experience, provided the pellets are from the same manufacturer, the skirt size doesn't factor as the air will expand them out into the rifling.

Thanks for sharing. I bought a sleeve of the FT's a while back with the intention of switching to them for HFT and haven't got around to it yet. I'll add the sticks idea to my list thanks. 🙂👍

The heaviest I've been with my 97 is the H&N baracuda FT and they looked pretty good. I'll have to give the JSB heavies a try. 🙂👍

Thanks for sharing. 🙂👍

Great suggestion! I'll have to look out for some. 🙂👍

@@hftshooter If needed, I can send you some. 👍

Thanks for the info! 🙂👍

Thanks for sharing! 😀👍

Yes, it's a unique green laminate one. 🙂

That's the opposite of what pellets are designed to do. I don't know whether waddcutter pellets will behave that way? Pest controllers often use a lower power for short range pigeons, especially in barns.

@@hftshooter Agree, hence the question. I'm presently using wadcutters (Meisterkugeln .177 Professional Line in 7.0 gm) and they do fine for accuracy but in a suburb, I'd like to find a way to limit the travel. If I use the rifle barrel on the Diana Chaser, it's more accurate as it's faster but a miss means a pellet going quite a ways. No idea how far that is. There is no power control on the Diana so either I modify the CO2 valve or buy another gun. Anyway, thanks for the response.

The range was 25 yards, so 22.86 metres. 👍

Great comment, thanks for sharing! 😀👍

Thanks for the info. I didn't know H&N make them. 🙂👍

Sorry, I think I was mostly talking to myself, old people like me do that a lot, lol. I think I was referring to the 3 shot clover-leaf group on the centre target. 👍

No I didn't specifically check the power in these tests, but I know that with the heaviest pellets my rifle is still legally below 12 ft.lb. 👍

Just tried heavies in my brand new Ghost, they do tend to run hot probably best to double check!

@@jonathanreed2497 I just found time to run the heavies through the chrono and I'm getting an average 710fps which is 11.5 ft.lbs so all good thanks. 🙂👍

Happy Friday Johnny. I've been playing in bands, writing and recording music since the 80s. Always been into synthpop! Started out on Cakewalk and moved to Reason when they added audio tracks. If you like a bit of synthpop check out my other channel @jeffmccallmusic. 🙂👍

I knew you were musical Jeff.. even your music for your channel I knew you did that👍👍 I like "boing" noise when the target goes down at the opening music of your channel.. 🤣🤣yeh Reason and Cakewalk.. I dabbled with them my guitarist still uses Reason, I took to Ableton Live more so than Pro tools or Cubase.. Yeh I'm gonna check out your other channel.. this is great stuff Jeff👍🤟🤔❤️ you'll remember the Moog and Roland Juno 6.. lynn drum machines.. TR808, SH 100 etc. All the old good stuff.. 🤟👍✌️I have so many amazing plugins.. to many to mention but you end up doing and recording a full orchestra until the sun comes up.. I know you've done that before 🤣🤣🤣 yeh I been in bands like you, signed and unsigned.. done a lot of pro backing vocals for artists.. anyway we would have a lot to chat about our days with music😂😂👍👍👍I got a covers band called Sonic Bullet there's a lot of songs on KZfaq, we did it live into a laptop when we were under lockdown.. the quality isn't great but we had to do something cause we were going mental with covid restrictions.. sorry im getting carried away Jeff.. 🤣🤣got a bit excited there.. 🤣🤣yeh guns and music go together me thinks.. 👍👍❤️ we all could be at yours right now having a shooting party 🤣🤣my bad.. check out Johnny Houston-Going Nowhere.. and Yellow and No time to lose on KZfaq when you get a minute or to.. have an awesome weekend Jeff.. ps Scotland are getting humped by the Germans.. 😂😂😂👍🤟✌️

@@johnnyhouston9913 Hi Johnny, I checked out your music and I thought it sounded great. The laptop recording wasn't bad at all. You have a very distinctive singing voice, by that I mean it's easy to tell it's you singing. Do you still have the long hair? My style was always the early Midge Ure look; even had the manicured moustache at one point! 🤣 All the best, Jeff.

Hi bro.. sorry I never got back sooner one of my pals sent my something and left a bug in my phone.. had to delete everything and start again.. it was a pain in the ass.. anyway I must have went through all your songs.. I makes it more enjoyable cause I kind of know you and your really talented so I enjoyed listening to your stuff Jeff.. you are definitely the most 80's guy I have ever heard off❤️❤️ but loved your stuff.. I had a party on my own and listened to your songs all night.. it was a good night Jeff. 👍👍😍😍 Yeh me still has long hair and 🤣🤣 going a bit grey now 🤣🤣🤣 but still rocking it out. I think there's about 16-17 songs with the duet ban called Sonic Bullet.. I'm not sure how many songs are on there to be honest Jeff.. but your a great musician and I did like your songs.. one song popped out...on my mind or something like that I could myself listening to that in my head walking. Down the street. And thinking of passing it on to Depeche mode.. what you think about that..👍👍👍😍😍❤️🤟✌️

Will do. Been meaning to try those and the lighter ones when I can get my hands on some. Am I right in thinking they're made by JSB?

Hi Andy. I was thinking of doing a slug test video, but everyone else that I've seen using them in a sub12 rifles has found them useless. They're expensive to buy so don't want to be left with a load of useless lead.

Hi, I've tried 10g and 13g slugs and I'd say save your money that or get the small amount you can. Muzzle velocity is so slow making 8/9ft/lb and the accuracy in mine is only ok at best, not a patch on JSB Heavys.

I could have shot them further but wanted to do a 25 yard comparison with the indoor test. Might be worth doing the whole lot again at 40-45? 🙂👍

I think you may be right. I just watched that section of the video again and only counted 9 pellet holes. 🙂👍

Yes, definitely worth a test at longer distances. However, just watched that 'sniper elite' blokes video and his magazine shots were all over the place at 20 metres.

@@hftshooter to be fair i think a lot of it depends on the mag daystate ones are pretty good for me . air arms mags i have 3 one is s**t the other 2 are pretty good . i tend to use signal shot loaders stops me from blowing through 500 pellets a session 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes John. I have a .22 barrel kit for this rifle and have shot it in .22 on a previous video. 🙂👍

@@hftshooter cool I'll go and watch

Thanks for your comments. Tackling the wind is an important part of HFT so I need to know how the pellets I choose perform outside where I do 99.9% of my shooting. I really don't enjoy shooting inside! I'm already planning to test different power levels with the ghost as mentioned in a previous video. 🙂👍

The tin I have isn't that bad as far as pellet quality, but then I didn't buy it recently.