The Last Marksmen!

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Today i bought the last tin of marksman pellets i ever will.
They were never my first choice not ever, but they were there cheap and worked well enough to get most air rifle tasks done reasonably well.
They are no more we are leed to believe so its the end of the road for marksman no1 no2 and no3 , gone set to drift off into the history books as probably the never the first choice pellet yet the one that was always there in the background .
I admit ill Miss Marksman pellets i know they were reincarnated etc but they are no more. Sad day and the cruel fact is this 500 are .177 too. LOL!
 
I've never tried Marksman in any of my air rifles, just because I've always used other pellets. But as I learned that Lincoln Jeffries who makes Marksman are no longer making them. I decided to pick up a box.

I've recently picked up a BSA Supersport.22 from the 80's, which is 5.6mm, so it might absolutely love the Marksman.
 
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Had this tin for as long as I can remember
 

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Bought a few cartons of the 5.6mm Marksmen when they were remade & recommended as great for old Webleys/BSA's. Wasn't that impressed, to be honest. But the boxes looked nice in my pistol cases.
When it was announced they were to be no more, I considered buying some more. Then I went out with the Ancient Brits & fired a few groups.
Followed by groups with RWS Superdomes, & FTT's. Which were half the size.
 
Neil123 said:
Never had much luck with the .177 or .22
But the .25 are not bad.
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They were quite good in .25, rest i used for plinking and playing with pistols on cans and such. Much better results myself with milbro Caledonians at similar price.
 
I am just an old sentimentalist when it comes to stuff that's been there forever , especially British stuff.
The Marksman's as a kid dropping down the bore of my BSA Mercury .22 near 1/4 inch LOL!
They were just there part of the whole scene, the fact they still here changed or not was testament to the fact the producers felt to need to continue too.
Yes they were never the best, also rans sums them up yet i think we should not be too hard on ourselves for at least recognising their demise enough to mention it here and share a coment or ten. on the old Marksman's. LOL!
 
I've had a tin of .22 Marksman for 20+ years. They were given to me by a member of the gun club and I don't know why I've kept them as nothing I've ever tried them in has liked them. I should give them to my neighbour to use to shoot in his recently fettled HW97 rather than wasting decent pellets.

My go-to cheap pellets are Spitfires.
 
om606 said:
Today i bought the last tin of marksman pellets i ever will.
They were never my first choice not ever, but they were there cheap and worked well enough to get most air rifle tasks done reasonably well.
They are no more we are leed to believe so its the end of the road for marksman no1 no2 and no3 , gone set to drift off into the history books as probably the never the first choice pellet yet the one that was always there in the background .
I admit ill Miss Marksman pellets i know they were reincarnated etc but they are no more. Sad day and the cruel fact is this 500 are .177 too. LOL!
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I hope that someone will buy the tooling and continue making Marksmen pellets.
I think it would be a tragedy if the equipment ended up in a scrapyard.
 
I have several boxes of the .22’s that l use in my old BSA’s.

One pellet testing session l thought it would be a laugh to try them in my other springers, 35, 77, 95 & 99 and you know what, I was very surprised because they actually weren’t that bad. They wouldn’t win any competitions but l was hitting spinners at 20 yards or so.
 
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