Pellet · .30 cal · 45.68gr · Budget
Snowpeak Artemis .30 45.68gr
Snowpeak's house-brand .30 cal pellets — the budget pick for the M60B and Max 1 in .30 caliber, for high-volume practice and plinking.
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Quick take
The house-brand .30 cal pellet — Snowpeak/Artemis's own line, designed to ship cheaply with their .30 cal rifles. At 45.68gr the weight is essentially identical to JSB's 44.75gr and JTS's 45.06gr — a drop-in third option in the same energy class. The volume-shooter's budget pick. 100% positive on 46 orders — actually the highest order count of any .30 cal pellet at the partner.
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Specifications
Key specs
| Caliber | .30 (7.62mm) |
| Weight | 45.68 grains (2.96g) |
| Design | Domed (round-nose) lead pellet |
| Count per tin | 150 |
| Brand / origin | Snowpeak / Artemis — China |
| Lead alloy | Standard lead pellet alloy |
| Buyer rating | 100% positive on 46 orders — most-ordered .30 cal pellet at the partner |
| Stock | Out of stock at time of writing — restocks regularly |
The Hunt & Live take
Why this pellet earns the pick
Snowpeak makes the M60B and Max 1 in .30 caliber — popular high-power PCPs at the partner. It’s natural that they also stock the pellet to match. The Artemis house-brand .30 cal pellet is the cost-optimized companion to those rifles: same caliber, similar weight to the premium options, lower price-per-shot.
The order count is actually the headline number: 46 orders, 100% positive — the highest of any .30 cal pellet at the partner. That’s a real buyer signal, especially in a low-volume niche caliber like .30. Buyers come back tin after tin, which is the metric that matters for “is this pellet actually accurate enough.”
The 45.68gr weight is within a grain of the JSB and JTS options — drop-in replacement if you’re trying it without changing your trajectory dope.
What rifles it pairs with
- Snowpeak M60B in .30 — the design pairing; the rifle and pellet are made by the same company for each other
- Snowpeak Max 1 in .30 — same answer
- AEA Challenger Nova .30 — works, weight matches the rifle’s energy budget
- FX Maverick .30 — works fine
When to use it / when not to
Use it for: high-volume practice with a .30 cal PCP, sighting in, any practical .30 cal use where price-per-shot matters. The default pick if you bought a Snowpeak rifle in .30 cal and you want the pellet that ships with it.
Skip it for: the most demanding accuracy work where JSB’s consistency edge matters (under 50-yard groups), and skip when out of stock — pick up the JTS Dead Center .30 as the in-stock budget alternative.
Honest trade-offs
Lower brand consistency than JSB. Standard story for budget pellets — good enough for most uses, not match-grade. Test a few tins before relying on it for precision work.
150 per tin is the .30 cal standard.
Out of stock cycles. Despite being the highest-volume .30 pellet at the partner, it does cycle out. Email Wes at the partner for restock ETA, or switch to JTS Dead Center .30 (currently in stock) as the in-stock budget pick.
The right pellet for the Snowpeak ecosystem. If you bought a Snowpeak M60B or Max 1 in .30 cal, this is the pellet to start with — same brand, same engineering team, designed for the energy budget those rifles produce.
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