Thread: Airgun pellets - How light is too light in spring guns ?

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Thanks Kruza.

It's a spring gun and I'm worried about breaking the spring, piston etc if the pellet is too light and its half way like dry firing it.

As a general rule, with spring guns i would stay away from alloy or leadfree pellets. They are usually too light. For the very powerfull springers i would avoid the lighter lead pellets lke Express and RS pellets by JSB or other similarly light ones. For the really weak springers i would avoid the heaviest pellets. Otherwise don't worry too much.

Did a quick search of weihrauch pellets. The lightest .22 pellet I found was 14.66gr.
( it's what I did for my tx and how I settled on 16gr for it)
A more comprehensive search might reveal different, but 14.66gr being the lowest that the manufacturer puts out would be a my limit. ( and they are lead)