Our Walmart had a big discount sale so pick up one 40 pound bag of Hickory and two 20 pounds bags of competition mix.
Have not tried the competition but the Hickory produce very little smoke in comparison to Cooking Pellets or Lumber Jack.
Also very little smoke taste in Ribs with no noticeable smoke ring.
The above is in my modified Blaz'n Grid Iron and others could have different results.
The competition blend is the only pellets I have tried so far. I went in to the Rural King store by me today and they had Traeger and Lumber Jack pellets.
I picked up a bag of the Lumber Jack 100% pecan and the Lumber Jack apple blend. I would have rather got their 100% apple but they only had the blend which is blended with oak.
Being from Maryland, pecan was something not really available there and I've never smoked with pecan before so I wanted to try that. The Traeger pellets were $14 and the Lumber Jack $9.99 for 20# bags