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(@jpo)
Wisconsin
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like .25 and .30 caliber pellets??  

 

I've always been a fan of a wadcutter for pest control.  I have a couple .25 cal springers and gas rams and one .30 gas ram rifle.  I'd like a wadcutter option.  

 

None of the searches I do show any current stock.  There were only a few options initially anyway.  Any help??


   
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(@jim_bentley)
Indiana
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Now that's a question that I never would have expected!

Most large caliber shooters are interested in long range where, if I understand correctly, you want to use yours at shorter range?


   
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sonnysan
(@sonnysan)
California
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I remember H&N used to make a wadcutter, but don't know how long they have been out of production:

https://www.pyramydair.com/s/p/Beeman_H_N_Match_25_Cal_21_14_Grains_Wadcutter_150ct/463

You must want a loud smack when you hit the pest.


   
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straitflite
(@straitflite)
Ohio
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I asked this question a short while back.

It's been a few years since I legally hunted bullfrogs from a john boat in KY. At that time I had an old RWS 34 .22. Wadcutters helped take that final death hop out of them before losing them to the water. The contact was clearly louder than with domes.

I have an urge to revisit those hunts and would like to get something in .25 and I have no doubt that a .25 pill would be perfect -but it seems like there isn't a single choice.


   
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Noah_1325
(@noah_1325)
Hawaii
Joined: 7 years ago
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I am pretty sure I still have few tins of .25 caliber H&N 21.14 grain wadcutters at my shootin' cabin, but I won't be there for at least several weeks thanks to this virus issue. Feel free to PM me and we can go from there.


   
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Septicdeath
(@septicdeath)
Washington
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Probably the closest thing you will find to wadcutter  are these.

Predator Polymag Pellets

 


   
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Noah_1325
(@noah_1325)
Hawaii
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I can also remember the loud "SLAP!" these .25 wadcutters made when hitting targets and varmints. Very clean, very little dust/residue and easy to load.


   
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(@tim_ward)
Georgia U.S.
Joined: 7 years ago
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Pyramid doesn't carry any.


   
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nervoustrigger
(@nervoustrigger)
Mississippi
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I too love a wadcutter for pesting.  In .177 cal I've found quite a few that will hold sub dime-sized groups out to 30 - 40 yards and they are absolutely devastating on squirrels, chipmunks, etc.  For example, the RWS Supermags have even held up nicely everywhere from the mid 500s...

25 yards from a PP700S-A pistol (6.5fpe / 560fps)

...all the way up to the mid 900s.  30 yards from a QB79 HPA conversion  - bottom group labeled "RWS SM". I never would have believed it without seeing it 

Unfortunately I've had no such luck in .22 cal across a variety of rifles, even with premium wadcutters like the Meisterkugelns.

In .25 cal, the only option I've seen is to cast them yourself
https://noebulletmolds.com/site/product-category/251

One of the guys on GTA speaks highly of the wadcutter mold.

 


   
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Motorhead
(@motorhead)
California
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For YEARS and years shot the RWS HOBBY wad cutters at pests.  Flying FRYING Pans was my typical statement.

In .25 cal H&N Crow Magnums are a wadcutter with a dish head .... lets say steroids !!


   
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