gemini52 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 I recently bought a mark 1 hw 80 off my mate so have been trying a few different pellets,mainly superdomes,and to be fair they have been good,but decided to try some eley wasp in 5.6,at twenty five yards they are really accurate,groupings are well acceptable,and the spinner has took fair battering,i know they are not made by eley anymore,but for the price they are excellent,i have a mk5 meteor i use in the garden so the eleys will be fine for that aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 You are the first person I have heard singing the praises of eley wasps for quite some time ! At the end of the day if they work well for you that is all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 :lol: " I DONT BELIEVE IT " said victor meldrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyflier Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 My word, I usually only use 5.6 wasp pellets in knackered old BSA's which have had the likes of nuts and bolts fired through the barrels during their life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenduri Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 I recently bought a mark 1 hw 80 off my mate so have been trying a few different pellets,mainly superdomes,and to be fair they have been good,but decided to try some eley wasp in 5.6,at twenty five yards they are really accurate,groupings are well acceptable,and the spinner has took fair battering,i know they are not made by eley anymore,but for the price they are excellent,i have a mk5 meteor i use in the garden so the eleys will be fine for that aswell. What pellets are you using as they aren't Wasps lol Eley wasps were good, the current wasps have tonnes of swarf, are misshapen and very roughly made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 The new wasps were OK in a BSA I had. Years ago in the eighties I use to use them in my hw80. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les*1066 Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 I still have around 50 of the old Eley Wasps that I'm saving as an heirloom for the grandkids - I'm going to spend the money on myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 What pellets are you using as they aren't Wasps lol Eley wasps were good, the current wasps have tonnes of swarf, are misshapen and very roughly made. To be fair they are not as bad as i first thought,my mate gave me a tin of original wasps,they were far better made then the present day ones,but the proof is in the pudding so to speak they perform just as well as the superdomes at twenty five yards in my garden,the guy who i bought the 80 off said he has used wasps in it and they were fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Odd to use a 5.6mm in a gun with a 5.5mm barrel-I would have put money on something like AA Field or suchlike being far more accurate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 Odd to use a 5.6mm in a gun with a 5.5mm barrel-I would have put money on something like AA Field or suchlike being far more accurate?Its only about .004" more all around and once sized it sized ! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffAim Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 My 1980s model HW80 was much better for accuracy and punch with Eley Wasp 5.6mm than any other pellets............but my late 1990s model HW97 is better with Eley Wasp 5.5mm, but nowhere near as good as the HW80. I also found that Accupels domed or pointed were pretty useless for accuracy or punch if used in the HW97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 My 1980s model HW80 was much better for accuracy and punch with Eley Wasp 5.6mm than any other pellets............but my late 1990s model HW97 is better with Eley Wasp 5.5mm, but nowhere near as good as the HW80. I also found that Accupels domed or pointed were pretty useless for accuracy or punch if used in the HW97. My 80 is a early one,i have no problem in hitting twenty bore empty cartridge at twenty five yards in my garden,when i get the chance will go up to the farm were i shoot clays,and see how they perform at thirty yards,as said earlier for the money i find wasps are fine for the type of shooting i do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffAim Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Gemini52........sounds like another one of me........ ...anyway..........I used to fire my HW80 at the primer of a 12 bore cartridge sat on an apple box at 50 yards..............I hid behind a corrugated iron shed while I did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyflier Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 I just bet it's something to do with the deeper rifling along the superior engineered barrels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbaz Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 HiI bought a load of the Wasp pellets, A mate told me that Eley had sold the Wasp name and the new ones were **** but they weren't allowed to put the Eley name on the lid! I think I have eight tins of the Genuine Eley product and six tins of the rubbish ones!!John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hi I bought a load of the Wasp pellets, A mate told me that Eley had sold the Wasp name and the new ones were **** but they weren't allowed to put the Eley name on the lid! <script pagespeed_no_defer="">//=d.offsetWidth&&0>=d.offsetHeight)a=!1;else{c=d.getBoundingClientRect();var f=document.body;a=c.top+("pageYOffset"in window?window.pageYOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollTop);c=c.left+("pageXOffset"in window?window.pageXOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollLeft);f=a.toString()+","+c;b.b.hasOwnProperty(f)?a=!1:(b.b[f]=!0,a=a<=b.e.height&&c<=b.e.width)}a&&(b.a.push(e),b.d[e]=!0)};p.prototype.checkImageForCriticality=function(b){b.getBoundingClientRect&&q(this,b)};h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality",function(b){n.checkImageForCriticality(b)});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkCriticalImages",function(){r(n)});var r=function(b){b.b={};for(var d=["IMG","INPUT"],a=[],c=0;c=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e)}b.g&&(e="&rd="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(s())),131072>=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e),d=!0);t=a;if(d){c=b.f;b=b.h;var f;if(window.XMLHttpRequest)f=new XMLHttpRequest;else if(window.ActiveXObject)try{f=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}catch(k){try{f=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}catch(u){}}f&&(f.open("POST",c+(-1==c.indexOf("?")?"?":"&")+"url="+encodeURIComponent(b)),f.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"),f.send(a))}}},s=function(){var b={},d=document.getElementsByTagName("IMG");if(0==d.length)return{};var a=d[0];if(!("naturalWidth"in a&&"naturalHeight"in a))return{};for(var c=0;a=d[c];++c){var e=a.getAttribute("pagespeed_url_hash");e&&(!(e in b)&&0=b[e].k&&a.height>=b[e].j)&&(b[e]={rw:a.width,rh:a.height,ow:a.naturalWidth,oh:a.naturalHeight})}return b},t="";h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.getBeaconData",function(){return t});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run",function(b,d,a,c,e,f){var k=new p(b,d,a,e,f);n=k;c&&m(function(){window.setTimeout(function(){r(k)},0)})});})();pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run('/mod_pagespeed_beacon','http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=d9fdaa430c114dacf0f8d3036853e9f0&app=forums&module=ajax§ion=topics&do=quote&t=316682&p=2871631&md5check=678b31de5647907e6620b954f4e5d20f&isRte=1,l8PuqRhht8,true,false,kHL2SL_vXys');//]]></script> &&0 I think I have eight tins of the Genuine Eley product and six tins of the rubbish ones!! John It would be interesting to compare the original wasps to the new ones,maybe you could do a comparison and let us know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) Gemini52........sounds like another one of me........ ...anyway..........I used to fire my HW80 at the primer of a 12 bore cartridge sat on an apple box at 50 yards..............I hid behind a corrugated iron shed while I did it. Did you manage to ignite the primer,what are we like big boys and there toys Edited July 25, 2015 by gemini52 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffAim Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Did manage to ignite the primer,what are we like big boys and there toys I bet you have got a BSA Scorpion .22 pistol tucked away, too..................... .....I have...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 I bet you have got a BSA Scorpion .22 pistol tucked away, too..................... .....I have...... I had one in the eighties,to be honest i cant remember what happend to it,seem to remember it would not cock,no doubt it got thrown out,i do have a mark five meteor in 22 that i play with in the garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbaz Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 It would be interesting to compare the original wasps to the new ones,maybe you could do a comparison and let us know I'll do that tomorrow though I know the Eley ones are very good as I gave a tin to a friend for his Webley pistol and was amazed at how well and uniformly they were made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 They used to be excellent pellets years ago, but I was stunned at how bad the last lot I bought were on opening the tin. They went straight back to the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Just had half an hour in the garden using the mk 5 meteor,the wasps performed well,cartridge cases were flying all over the place,hit the spinner five times on the run,i set up a target at twenty yards,the groups were the size of a two pence piece,bearing in mind the mk 5 has the worse trigger on on any bsa i am quite satisfied,just be my luck to buy some more wasps and they are awful,i got them from j s ramsbottem on ebay so will give them another go, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 sales are going to rocket now i might give them a go again. Got a BSA mercury and it battered some rabbits with the wasps then it was left to fester until i found JSB exact jumbo diablo would give acceptable groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I bought another tin of wasps,tried them in the garden and to be honest they are awful,i must have been lucky with the first tin,like i said in the first post they were really good,but the new lot are not in the same league,had no problem hitting cartridge cases,and the spinner but when i tried to put a group together they are all over the show,i had some superdomes left so done a comparison,five shots each at twenty yards,the superdomes i had four pellets touching each other,the wasps scattered all over the place,looks like i will be eating humble pie for bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livefast123 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 They really are awful, I got a tin to use in the 5.6mm Webley Falcon and some of the pellets are real tight, some almost fall through the breach, you never know which you are going to get! Having said that, they are acceptable for plinking in the garden, much like Milbro Caladonian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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