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New pellets ( Express .177 ).
The new pellet seems to be a competitor to the Crosman 7.9 Premier line.
Express weight is indeed 7.9 as JSB advertizes. I am sure some of the
shooter scales will say something slightly different but the pellet is meant
to weight 7.9 so I will go with it. Besides my electronic scale tell s
me it is very slightly less when weighing a lot of pellets and taking an
average. The tin has white label with light blue lettering. At a
distance it looks like an Exact but in light grey it will say “Express”.
So now there are several Exact pellets, the 7.9, 8.4 and the heavy at 10.1.
So far the 7.9 comes only in 4.52 diameter which seems to be the most popular
by far. The pellet is so new so far only few air gun dealers have them
in stock, one is TGAG, Straight shooters and I believe Pyramid air. And
at this writing I am not sure if they all have a supply or are they sold out.
But I do know the machinery at JSB is going strong 24/7 to catch up with
demand. Oh, just so I don’t forget there will be an Express in .22 but
that is for another article and besides they are have not arrived as of this
writing. But I hear they are on the way so it will not take long before
there is yet another competitor to the Crosman in .22.
I did get a sleeve of the express from TGAG for testing. I decided to
test them in S200, TX200, TX200SR and a MPR that has been modified to shoot 12
foot pounds. Testing is my standard, at 25 yards and 100 shots in five
shot groups. All groups are measured from center to center for a total
of 20 groups. As I wrote before I believe the more groups a shooter uses
the better he knows the rifle and if the rifle likes the pellet. The
other pellet that is going to be tested is the 7.9 Crosman. When the
Exact first came out it was tested against the 7.9 Crosman but I think it was
testing oranges vs apples since one weight is 8.4 and the other 7.9. The
scopes used were on the S200 4-12x 40 from TGAG, MPR has a BSA 6.5-25x42 and
the TX200 as well as the TX200SR a pair of 6.5-20x44 Simmons.Now we can test
an orange vs orange lets see how they fair.
First up was the MPR, a basic 10 meter rifle but which will except a
scope and the stock is more then adjustable enough to conform to any body.
TGAG modified this model to produce 12 foot pounds as maximum with most
pellets a bit more with certain other pellets. So far I have not
determined which pellet it seems to like. But that is a moot point since
here I am testing a Crosman pellet vs. a JSB Express. Even though the
power has been raised I still managed to get 50 good shots. In a match I
would charge up at 40 but I am sure the next modified MPR will be slightly
different and the shooter has to make that determination on his/her own.
I started with the Crosman 7.9 (#5 die).
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Crosman 7.9
JSB Express
Average group. Largest Smallest
Velocity Foot pounds.
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237
.323 .088
828 fps
12.02
Even though the Express beat out the Crosman I was not all that
impressed with the accuracy. I did notice the Crosman had some flyers
that opened up the group where the JSB was more concentric. Also seating
the pellet was much easier with the Express.
Next up was the TX200 and what a surprise this was. Not in the
accuracy department but rather how much I forgot shooting a springer. I
had to take some sighters just to get a feel for the rifle and to remember the
hold it likes. Here is how the pellets stacked up against one another. Cosman
7.9
JSB Express
The differences were much less with this rifle then the MPR.
But after stuffing 100 Crosmans into the Tx breech my thumb hurt. They
were such a tight fit I did not like it. I also noticed that I could not
be consistent how I put them in without the use of a pellet seater. I
did not want to use the seater and give either pellet an advantage over the
other. I used to use the seat with the Crosman and the Tx but I am going
to switch to the Express. Those I can load all day without getting “the
Crosman thumb.”
The same problem plaqued the Tx200SR as far as the Crosman thumb
syndrome. But there was a surprise the Crosman actually won this
round. Here is the tale of the tape.
Crosman 7.9
Seems like what I lost in accuracy I made up in power.
But since only interesting guns are the accurate ones the Crossman has this
round. But I am still going to switch to the Express since I don’t like
the ‘Crosman thumb’. And in my opinion the difference is not worth the dirty
pellets. Crosman 7.9
Express
The bottom line to the S200 is what great groups this one can come
up with. But since I noticed the lower the power setting the better the
Express will shoot. At least in theory, so I tried it in some out of the
ordinary air guns. Like an Aeron B98 and I can say that I would switch to the
Express if there was silhouette shot in the area. Then I tried it in my
Alfa- Proj rifle that will shoot a similar weight pellet at just over 500 fps
and it seemed to shoot right with the chosen wadcutter pellet the Alfa likes
on a every day basis. I don’t have any hard data since this pellet is
not meant to be shot at only 10 meters. But it seems like it will be a
great addition to the pellet line that is getting better and better. I
do know in my inventory of pellets this one will be used far more then the
Crosman. Lets face it if you are going to win the Nationals in field
target all the effort expended in sorting, cleaning, re lubing and going
through all the trouble. The Crosman if it shoots even slightly better
is more then worth it. But I will shoot only the local matches and for
fun none of the trouble I have to go through for the Crosman is worth the
effort. And out of these four rifles only one liked the Crosman better
and only by .078. When I think about it the rifle is no longer available
I think the express will be my new favorite. Well, at least I find
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