Not Very Happy With AA Hunter Pellets

[sharp88]

I went on a hunting trip today, but ran out of AA field pellets, so naturally I went down to the nearest supplier nearby.

Not only did I pay £12 for a tin of AA Hunter pellets in the Outdoorsman in Hastings (I hate that place), but in terms of accuracy and effectivness, they were awful. I use an AA S400, so I thought it would be all well and dandy, but I was mistaken.

Has anyone else ever had problems with these pellets? I just couldn't get on with them.

 

[Glen]

I went on a hunting trip today, but ran out of AA field pellets, so naturally I went down to the nearest supplier nearby.

Not only did I pay £12 for a tin of AA Hunter pellets in the Outdoorsman in Hastings (I hate that place), but in terms of accuracy and effectivness, they were awful. I use an AA S400, so I thought it would be all well and dandy, but I was mistaken.

Has anyone else ever had problems with these pellets? I just couldn't get on with them.

It can take around 20 pellets for you rifle barrel to adjust to a different pellet, that's why packs of 10 trial pellets aren't really that useful for finding out which pellet suits your rifle.

 

[MartiniDave]

Another thing to remember ie that AA pellets come in a range of diameters, so you need to find which is best for your combo. Once you find the right ones its worth buying in batches of 5 tins or more.

Dave

 

[sharp88]

Im used to AA Field Target. I always found I could get the best grouping with those.

I've also tried Promethius (which I hear are bad for barrels so I stopped using them) and H&N Field Target, which were way too fat.

It was a poor idea going hunting with unfamiliar pellets. Lesson learned.

 

[Rob]

i have never had any problems with them, although i do find the field version more accurate out of both my s410 and hw97k.

 

[johnnytheboy]

H&N Field Target Trophys used to be great out of my s400, allot of folk rate the aa hunters you mentioned, but i found the skirts very fragile, never liked them out of my gun

 

[Opal]

Another nod for H and N Trophy.

 

[welshwhit]

Yep, me too, but the ones I have at the minute are the weihrauch, but they are just rebranded tins!

I too found the hunters a bit too unreliable, they were generally good but too many fliers!

The htt have a harder skirt as well so you don't get as many dodgy ones out the tin!

Drew