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Well some of them, the ones that have mattered these last six or seven years. Forgive me for doing this as a re-post.
And in case you have not heard ... the 18.1 gr JSB Exact Jumbo Heavy .22 Match pellets are being turned loose from the Reinhold establishment. My consignment of 7,500 arrived today and they are superb; even better refined than the samples I tested back in April I think it was, and they shot wonderfully.

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Hey, guess what ....... I now have a LOW power girly calibre rifle . You might remember Lewis advertised a left handed FWB 300 S Match rifle recently. Well I am the lucky new owner of the 1975 extremely well kept 300 S with Lewis' magic massaged into the workings for a little extra ( not too much ) power without compromising the mild manners of the classic spring gun. So I join Daisy and others in the romance of the FWB 300 S and it's a lefty!

Watch this space for the results of some experiments I have in store for the darling thing ( a hefty darling I might add ). It has the FWB receiver 10 m optical target sights but I have a nice little Leupold EFR 3 - 9 X AO scope to grace it too. .... Kind regards, Yrrah.

Yrrah wrote:Well some of them, the ones that have mattered these last six or seven years. Forgive me for doing this as a re-post.
And in case you have not heard ... the 18.1 gr JSB Exact Jumbo Heavy .22 Match pellets are being turned loose from the Reinhold establishment. My consignment of 7,500 arrived today and they are superb; even better refined than the samples I tested back in April I think it was, and they shot wonderfully.

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Hey, guess what ....... I now have a LOW power girly calibre rifle . You might remember Lewis advertised a left handed FWB 300 S Match rifle recently. Well I am the lucky new owner of the 1975 extremely well kept 300 S with Lewis' magic massaged into the workings for a littl extra ( not too much ) power without compromising the mild manners of the classic spring gun. So I join Daisy and others in the romance of the FWB 300 S and it's a lefty!

Watch this space for the results of some experiments I have in store for the darling thing ( a hefty darling I might add ). It has the FWB receiver 10 m optical target sights but I have a nice little Leupold EFR 3 - 9 X AO scope to grace it too. .... Kind regards, Yrrah.

Thanks Harry.

Nice rifles there Harry. We are still waiting for the 18gn heavies in the UK for those of us that run fac stuff. The quality looks A1.

Regards Neil

Superb looking rifles there Yarrah, love the wood on the two lower ones.

Paz

Don't suppose you have a bc for the 18gn pellets Harry.

Neil

stillair1 wrote:Don't suppose you have a bc for the 18gn pellets Harry.

Neil

Neil, I have not as yet done the 50 and 100 yard bc tests. What I can say is that there is virtually no difference in POI from my BSA rifles for the 15.9 and 18.1 gr pellets. When the sight is zeroed at 50 yd with one pellet it is on the money with the other pellet despite the velocity difference. This holds good to 100 m where group centres may be 1/2" to 3/4" lower for the heavy pellet. Others are finding the same POI at 50 m too, so if you get hold of some you might just treat them as for the lighter Exact to begin with.

Has there been any interest in the Heavy in UK? .....
Kind regards to yourself and to any of your shooting fraternity who may recall a blip on the radar about 18 months ago ....... Harry in OZ.

Hi Harry
Yep there is quiet a bit of intrest from the fac fraternity here. The more pellets for fac the better, as long as the qc remains high. There are two main camps here, one for barracudas 21gn and one for jsb 16gn. I think the 18gn will draw support from both camps. Although some are stuck in the mud.

regards Neil

stillair1 wrote:Hi Harry
Yep there is quiet a bit of intrest from the fac fraternity here. The more pellets for fac the better, as long as the qc remains high. There are two main camps here, one for barracudas 21gn and one for jsb 16gn. I think the 18gn will draw support from both camps. Although some are stuck in the mud.

regards Neil

Neil, I have looked over some 18.1 gr Exact data from the test sample early in 2008 and in summary:
Specifically for my particular first JB BSA Hornet shooting at av MV 863 fps at a particular farm at 2000 ft altitude - the drop from a 52 yard zero was 18.25 inches at 108 yards for groups of 5 shots. ( Ranges laser measured ).

This gives a bc of say 0.039 at 2,000 ft which is equivalent to a bc of 0.036 near enough at sea level ....... In the same session from the same rifle the lighter 15.9 gr Exacts rated at a sea level bc of 0.033 over the same range.

Re- the .22 cal Baracuda Match v's 15.9 gr Exact: In each of my three PCPs, Excalibre and Hornet at around 28 fpe and JB OZ 1 Hornet at say 38 fpe, the 15.9 gr Exacts always just pip the Baracudas at 50 m for group size. Not much in it but it is consistent. When the range is extended to 100 yards and beyond, the Exacts are the better of the two and the difference in group size becomes proportionately greater. Lampies Lamprecht of SA, whose approach to shooting and his outright skills I admire, has indicated to me that he feels the Baracudas start to lose it at longer ranges especially beyond 120 yards. This may be related to accelerating spin rates relative to linear velocity in particular rifles.... I'll leave it there. ..... Kind regards, Harry.

Thanks Harry good info. Now just got to find an importer. and get testing.
If smooth twist gets manufactured this may push the envelope further.
Regards Neil