How much do you spend on pellets each year?

1260engineer said:
kin ell i can do over 300 round with a bolt action in 40 minutes
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I bet you're glad that it's not an HMR, which is a real wallet killer.

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Daniel492 said:
Just wondering what people's spend is on pellets each year or when doing a single bulk order?

I have just done a couple of hundred on a bulk spend. This will last me along time, so not to bad.
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Nice try “Daniel”
I’m not falling for that.
Next thing, you’ll be asking what the average price for an Airwolf is.
And I’ll be sporting a black eye.
 
Probably only spent around £60 on pellets so far this year but had a few old tins from years ago I've been shooting too.

Years ago a tin of 500 could last me anything from a couple of days to around 3 weeks but back then pellets were a lot cheaper.

Also back then there wasn't much difference in price between .177 and .22 pellets. I've mostly shot .22 but sometimes enjoyed the change of shooting .177 and used a Webley Vulcan for that.

These days it seems .177 pellets are quite a bit cheaper than .22 to the extent it might be worth switching to .177 to make shooting a bit cheaper... Price of pellets doesn't really matter if you're hunting and only doing a few shots per session but if you shoot a couple of hundred shots in a long plinking session and do so several times a week the costs could soon add up these days.

There's no way I would attempt to convert the HW77 from .22 to .177 but I still have the Webley Vulcan in .177 and have recently bought a HW80 in .22 . At some point I might see if I can pick up a .177 barrel for the HW80.
 
Last year I spent £253, the year before £326. The year before I bought loads of different pellets for testing, mostly so that I could be sure I wasn’t missing a good, cheap option going forwards. I found that my Cometa 200 likes Gamo, so a find, The S200 really takes to QYS heavies, but give acceptable results with swaged (if I can be @rsed), the Mito likes Baracuda FTs, but also does acceptably with Baracuda 8s. My grandsons’ CP1/2 both do pretty good with Excite, but better with B8s. My Beeman really likes BFTs and not a lot besides, and the newly acquired AP900 seems to be sold on Exacts, both 8 and 10, but I haven’t yet tested the full range of cheapies with it.
 
Lpgc said:
Probably only spent around £60 on pellets so far this year but had a few old tins from years ago I've been shooting too.

Years ago a tin of 500 could last me anything from a couple of days to around 3 weeks but back then pellets were a lot cheaper.

Also back then there wasn't much difference in price between .177 and .22 pellets. I've mostly shot .22 but sometimes enjoyed the change of shooting .177 and used a Webley Vulcan for that.

These days it seems .177 pellets are quite a bit cheaper than .22 to the extent it might be worth switching to .177 to make shooting a bit cheaper... Price of pellets doesn't really matter if you're hunting and only doing a few shots per session but if you shoot a couple of hundred shots in a long plinking session and do so several times a week the costs could soon add up these days.

There's no way I would attempt to convert the HW77 from .22 to .177 but I still have the Webley Vulcan in .177 and have recently bought a HW80 in .22 . At some point I might see if I can pick up a .177 barrel for the HW80.
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I only shoot .177 for this reason. Over a year or two, it covers the cost of another project gun.
 
Used to do 2 tins a weekend up the range when I could get a decent bulk buy price from Krale...now a tin lasts me ages just doing pest controlling
 
It varies, currently having a sabbatical, so none, usually a couple of tins a month, sometimes more, I buy them locally so I hopefully I wont be whining about my local RFDs closing down!!😁👍
 
I visit the club twice a week and usually get through a tin of pellets every session.

Back in the days when Voymir was still sane and honest, it wasn't unusual to place an order which topped a thousand quid.
Mind you, that was including orders from clubmates.
We were noticing the prices going up so we simply got in front of the game to save a few quid.

Nevertheless, I still have a goodly stash of pellets which will take about five years to get through.. :ROFLMAO: Homer face palm 🫣
 
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