H&N Baracuda Hunter Pellets

These are some accurate hunting pellets!

The facts! I’m a trained military rifleman and hunter. I received these pallets that I ordered from Amazon in a timely manner. 27.47 grain hollowpoint H and N barracuda. Shooting from a Hatsan invader, I was getting an average speed of 975 ft./s. I was shooting into a 1 inch oak board. As many of you know, an oak board is much harder than plywood or pine boards. These pellets went 9/10 of the way through and expanded perfectly into a mushroom near the exit point of the board. After calculations, I determined that I was producing 59.12 foot pounds of energy. Lethality is in the hands of the shooter and shot placement is most important. About to use for survival rounds and I can’t think of a better ammo to have as an all purpose pellet. They are accurate! They are precise, they work well in my air rifle, they expand like they are supposed to. Excellent ammo for any 25 caliber air rifle that’s pushing 850 ft./s or better. I am very pleased with my purchase.

Pretty good pellet. I’m shooting them out of a Brocock bantam sniper and they are pretty accurate. About a us quarter size group of 5 shots at 40ish yards. I only gave 4 stars because they aren’t the most accurate pellet in my rig but also I shot them through a thick folded up towel with an oak board as the back drop and got zero expansion out of the hollow point. The skirt was all that expanded and that was just from hitting the board so I would estimate that they would expand at all in an animal unless you hit bone. But it’s weight makes a good compromise between heavy weight and hard hitting versus high velocity low energy.

These pellets are accurate at about medium range and close, these do some damage, I hunted prairie dogs with these pellets and man do they leak. Would definitely recommend these. These pellets do not come with damaged skirts or anything, although I noticed a very lead smell coming from the tin at first.

Came well packaged and not messed up like all other pellets I get in .25 cal

I learned that pellets should be ordered one tin or container at a time and not to order anything else with them. These are heavy and will bounce around in the box smashing themselves against anything else is the box. See picture of dented tins. Luckily these are cheaper plinking pellets. If a more expensive target grade were bent up like these they probably would have had to been returned. I ordered them separately and they were combined in same box smashing into each other and denting the tins. Something to keep in mind while ordering to make sure one tin ships before ordering another or anything else you don't want a tin of pellets hammering en route.

These pellets shoot very well in my Umarex Gauntlet. At 50 yards they will hit the bulls eye 9/10 times on average. I do have an upgraded bottle and reg which allows higher psi than standard. Would recommend considering for anyone shooting over 2000psi.

It depends on the bore / rifle as my hatsan 125 has a tight bore & loves these while my gauntlet does not do as well with them. Not that they have done poorly, but they are not going to be the pellets i use at maximum range.I might also add that i am adding flex reg and it might be i get an accuracy change as putting more power to those thick skirts might improve them a little. I sure do wish after all this time H&N made fractional head size match grade .25 pellets in the barracudas like they do for .22 & give JSB some competition.

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