TargetTalk

Anyone uses leadfree pellets to train at home? (so you dont have leaddust concerns etc).
What pellets usually go best in match airpistols?
I dont want those with plastic skirts or steel heads.
I am considering:
Prometheus Dynamic PP1: 'for airpistols and revolvers with mgazine, 6.9 grain'
Dynamic PCP1:'for airguns upto 20Ftp, 7,95 grain'
Crosman silver eagle wadcutters: 4.8grain. But they're said to be quite hard?
I knów these wont give best grouping. I dont care, its just practise.

yana wrote:Anyone uses leadfree pellets to train at home? (so you dont have leaddust concerns etc).
What pellets usually go best in match airpistols?
I dont want those with plastic skirts or steel heads.
I am considering:
Prometheus Dynamic PP1: 'for airpistols and revolvers with mgazine, 6.9 grain'
Dynamic PCP1:'for airguns upto 20Ftp, 7,95 grain'
Crosman silver eagle wadcutters: 4.8grain. But they're said to be quite hard?
I knów these wont give best grouping. I dont care, its just practise.

If you're really worried about lead dust then just dry fire at home, that will probably be far more beneficial.

I wouldn't even consider the tin type pellets personally, they are not really target quality and are generally harder, introducing yet another safety factor not to mention breathing in tin dust...

Rob.

Only organic tin is poisenous, single atom tin is not.
Allthough I dont really understand what organic means..I'm not a chemist..
I'm not afraid of ricochets, I always use a soft pellet catcher.
I'm not looking for match quality, allthough the SN1 dynamics I have are SUBURBLY finished. At léast on par with handpicked match ammo.
I just need to live fire more. Its still too exiting for me now..
So dry firing isnt what I'm looking for (allthough I dó use it).

I haven't heard of a single case of lead poisining resulting in the death of an air pistol shooter to date. Besides, its an accumulative process that may not even compare to the perils of breathing urban pollution.
My advice would be to enjoy the excitement that you are presently experiencing, and live dangerously......92% of rational people over 80 yrs. surveyed said they would take more risks if given their life to live over again.......so heres your chance.....use those lead pellets.

Yana:

Evey so often in this forum we have a poster pop up purporting to posit the great benefits of some new "lead free solution" to the "poisonous lead problem."

Trouble is, 1) the solutions up to this point have all sucked (really expensive crappy pellets); and 2) the "poisonous lead problem" ain't that big a deal.

And so it goes . . .

Steve Swartz

My guess is that as soon as someone starts manufacturing match-grade pellets with the same accuracy as lead, and for about the same price, the status quo will suit most folks just fine.

Note that one way to "push" the issue is to simply drive the price of lead up so high that the more expensive lead free alternatives will actually be comparable in price, while simultaneously exaggerating the health risks of the current lead pellets.

At least, that's what an unscrupulous "lead alternatives industry" would be doing . . .

Oh crap should have said

" . . . UNTIL someone starts manufacturing match-grade pellets with the same accuracy as lead, and for about the same price, the status quo . . . "