I continued to do pellet testing with my .177 Avenge-X. I was checking the impact of shooting in the wind this time. I usually shoot at 50-yards but that set of ranges was full. Soni used 45-yards here.
Were you adjusting your point of aim based upon reading wind flags or just shooting and letting the wind do what it did?
Wind affects vertical point of impact just like it affects horizontal. If the wind is towards you it pushes the pellet down. If it is away from you it sails up a little.
I find it hard to tell a lot by shooting my one 177 (a P35) in windy weather. Sometimes it's all you have so I do it too. But I try to make decisions on what I get in low wind conditions. I shoot 30 yard challenge targets in the wind sometimes with my 177 because it drifts significantly more so if I can shoot well with it the others will improve too and probably by more.
I've tried pellet sorting several times (both weight and head size) and have not seen an impact. But I shoot mostly at 30 yards, hardly ever at 50 or more.
You should try some H&Ns. Most of my guns prefer them to JSBs. In my 177 it likes both H&N Baracuda Match and H&N Baracuda FTT pellets better than JSB 10.3s and Crosman 10.5s (but I have not tried the new Crosmans yet). You can get a couple different head sizes in the Match pellets.
I find sorting mrd’s to be worth the trouble. Most usually fall in .3,.4,.5,.6 but usually about 50 or so are way out there