Page 18 - Crosman Premier .22, .22 Reviews

These pellets are a great, baseline pellet for use when trying to find the right pellet for your gun. They are accurate in a lot of guns, come at a fair price, and a have legitimate, screw-on lid. They are a great shaped pellet for longer ranged shooting, as well as hunting and plinking, and generally load easily into lots of guns, as well as rotary magazines for PCP's, such as my Benjamin Marauder.

Make them cleaner. These pellets arrive fairly disgusting, and after only a few, they leave a trail of hazardous lead dust all over your hands. I would also make the quality control a little bit better over at Crosman. Some of the pellets (about 3-6 every tin) have skirts that are morbidly disfigured. I would expect better from a reputable, US company.

Clean these in a warm, soapy solution before use. Let them sit over night in the solution, and then rinse them out in cold water and let them soak again. This gets a lot of the lead dust out of the skirts and out of your bore.

Cheap but good pellets. These shoot well in so many different airguns. The diabolo shape (with dome head) seems to be one of the best flying heads for high power pellet guns.

I wash (in Dawn), fully dry, then lube (with Krytech wax lube), but they are probably fine to use right out of the tin. I do get fine lead shavings off when I wash them.

great deal for my Benjamin trail np all weather the price is good when you buy many at a time with the fourth always free good quality

don't like the little lead flakes

alot of flakes in tin but dump them on junk towel and you will get rid of most of it dirty but they are very accurate and the price can't be beat they are my base pellet

OK so you can get these pellets just about anywhere for a very good price. Wal Mart sells them for $6.97 and thats even less than PA sells them for. As far as accuracy, they are probably the most consistent pellet I have shot so far out of my Benjamin XL 1100. I have shot over 500 rounds and they are very consistent. I can hold a 1/2" group at 40 yards with them but you do get a few flyers every now and then. I willtell you that your trigger and shooting form play a major part in accuracy. The way the gun is held (tight or loosely), your rest, and your trigger pull and weight all have a part in accuracy. I have been able to adjust the trigger on the XL1100 to the point where it only takes light pressure to get the gun to fire. This was accomplished by removing the stock adjustment screw and replacing it with a 1/2 inch one. This allows you to take all the "creep" of the first stage out and leaves you with a very short pull which makes the trigger much better. I was planning to get a GRT-3 trigger but since this mod that I learned about, I am not going to have to spend the money for it. You just replace the stock 4-40 screw with a 1/2" one and just turn it in until you get the feel and trigger release you like. I like a light trigger and my groups show the difference.

They are dirty. Your fingers will get dirty from loading these in your gun but I can live with that for the price.

You will get flyers every now and then. I dont know why this happens but I believe that either there is a little difference in some of the pellets and that is why you get a flyer now and then. I have tried a lot of different pellets and these so far are great for the price. Predator polymags shoot good too but the impact point will be different. My gun groups the polymags at about 7 o'clock about 1/2" out of the center of the target compared to these.

These perform very well out of my Benjamin NPXL 1100 I like the screw on lid. I am getting 900 fps with them.

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these are one of the best fitting pellets for my crosman / bejamins.

great value for money and accurate. use them for plinking and they get the job done just as i expect.

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the pellets are dirtier than other ones ive used and leave a lot of residue in the barrel and on your fingers but if you clean your gun frequently and take care of it that shouldn't be a problem. also every so often ill come across a bunch of pellets that are dented and dont fit well. gotta be careful not to use rounds that are a little damaged but they aren't too common. overall id definitely recommend these pellets any day.

Works well in a Marauder, a gun which can be picky about pellets. Excellent price point. And they come in a 500ct tin with a screw top.

They could be a bit cleaner. I see small bits of lead scattered through the tin and on the pellets. Doesn't seem to affect accuracy though.

If you have a Marauder, you need to try these. Most owners have the Premiers in their top 3 pellets for this gun.

they are inexpensive.

they should be cleaned before being packaged and, unless they do a really good job cleaning, a warning label should be affixed: IF YOU CARE ABOUT ACCURACY, YOU WILL NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GUN AFTER SHOOTING A HANDFUL OF THESE.

these are the filthiest pellets i've ever seen. they dusted with graphite (i believe) and there are a lot of lead shavings. i was aware that might be an issue but after reading how to clean these pellets, i thought i would buy, clean and try them. well, i bought and then cleaned them which removed most of the graphite and all the lead shavings. but there still was enough graphite left to soil my fingers and foul my barrel. after shooting less than 100 of these pellets in my talon ss, i lost accuracy. after cleaning that mess out of my barrel, accuracy was restored and i'm now happily (and accurately) shooting diabolo exact jumbo heavy's (and i have 4 crosman premier paper weights). diabolos are more expensive than crosmans but pyramidair prices are so good (especially when you buy 3 and get 1 free) and especially when you piggyback that onto free shipping (by watching for their specials), it's well worth it to buy a better pellet.

priced OK. . .

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I try various brands.types of pellets in my air rifles... these = OK, but have not finished my trials using the various pellets that I have bot. Since all ammo has different performance characteristics, I think it behooves one to experiment with ammo brands/types to find what works best for themselves.

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Not a bad pellet. Fits all my pellet guns. Buy em

Good price. No mis-shapened skirts. very few fyers (shoots consistent groups).

Nothing at this price point.

A good pellet to have some fun plinking for the day.

when i started shooting my buddy and salesman both recommended these...can't beat the price..snug fit..shipping put a little hole in my pocket..but hell it's lead!!

nothing i can think of i purchased a box of .177 before these and yes, the box almost fell apart..but i heard they don't sell the boxes anymore..

very snug fit..but thats a good thing. can't beat the 4th tin is free!!!!

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this is by far the cheapest best pellet........

These shoot nearly as well as boxed Premiers for a lot less money! Super for plinking or practice.

Need to be cleaner.

Great pellets in my RWS 52 and 470TH.

This is the standard for me. I have found these pellets will perform well in multiple air rifles. If it does not shoot well, something is wrong with the gun. It shoots extremely well in my BAM XS-51 (fill to 2800PSI) with groups averaging less than 1/4" time after time at 10 yards. At 25 or 46 it is still the best pellet I shoot, giving groups of .5/.6 and few fliers. The tin is a screw type which is great out in the field where it prevents that pocket full of lint covered pellets like happens when the slip fit tins opens when you don't want it to. Note this pellet also is my test pellet for a new air rifle and I was very pleased with its accuracy in my QB-79 and B-3. Note; I do spray the pellets with a light coat of silicone/moly 'dry' lubricant before use as I have found it helps.

Crosman does it right. Nothing I would change.

Was very happy with how quick the shipment was and how the pellets were packed to prevent damage. Good price with their 'buy four and get one free' policy which makes them the best buy.

Excellent pellets

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Good price-quality ratio

Quality of pellets

Did not performed as expected in my Benjamin Marauder

Great product, I am getting 0.375" - 0.5" groups at 40 to 45 yards, with my .22 Marauder.

Some of the pellets have seams, dents or scratches on the head that seem to effect the pellets path, maybe there is some sort of method for controlling this(?) during the mfg process?

**5 shots landed all within the area of a DIME!……… Compared this Premier to two other brands, shooting a target at 60 feet **: Crossman “Pointed Premium Grade” ( $6/175pc.) **5 shots landed all within a 7” circle Meisterkugeln “Professional Line ($14/500pc.) **5 shots landed all within a 6” circle Crossman “Premier” **5 shots landed all within the area of a DIME!………Need I say more.......Shot form a Benjamin Marauder

Would like to see a design with better penetration (pointed?) with the same level of accuracy.

Clean handeling, pellets sold by the can are a better quality than by the box

Pellets are clean and very uniform. I find they shoot every bit as well as the boxed Premiers, I can see no reason the pay more for the same pellets.

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your basic good pellets, for plinking or hunting