was cleaning and weighting plus head size out of 500 pellets found 60 with smaller head size.
Cleaning and weighting pellets head size in 177 dose it work?
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I clean and lube, I'm sure weight and head size will affect accuracy, just common sense to me. If I was competing I might go through the trouble but for general plinking and such I shoot what I got and get reasonable groups out to reasonable distances.
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If you buy good pellets I see no reason to clean. Weighing will get rid of an occasional very heavy or light pellet. In weighing several thousand pellets I found 2 crazy light and one very heavy. Headsize is a joke as is accurate weight, overall quality control in my mind is poor. But does it matter. Well I shoot with some guys who believe in it. I have won 8 of our last 10 matches including 2 at 50 yds This is all .177 spring guns. So my opinion is, please you waste your time weighing, sorting, sizing or whatever while I spend my time practicing and refining my technique. If I was to shoot a regular 50 yard match I would consider weighing to test if it was worth it, though I doubt it.
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During lockdown to kill time I went through and weighed and rolled a couple tins of JSB 10.34.
I sorted by .2 weight. Out of each tin I found maybe 10-15 that were either well under the rest or well over with most falling in the middle few weights.
Rolling did not give me a head size but more a ratio of head to skirt. And again most fell in my “target” window with some dropping above or below my target window. Usually by some distance.
My sorted pellets were more accurate but only because it had weeded out the jumbo and peewee pellets.
I then took the “bad” pellets and mixed them together and shot groups. They were noticeably larger groups with fliers when shooting groups at 50 yards. At ten to twenty yards it didn’t seem to make a difference other that a few fliers.
Not worth it to me but I don’t make a living shooting competitions.
I do lube my pellets.
I like to plink with the cheap crossman .22 pellets. Well, I did when they were $6.26 a tin. These are filthy with shavings. I do pour these out on a paper towel and shake them around a bit and put them back in the tin. They are dirty.
I sorted by .2 weight. Out of each tin I found maybe 10-15 that were either well under the rest or well over with most falling in the middle few weights.
Rolling did not give me a head size but more a ratio of head to skirt. And again most fell in my “target” window with some dropping above or below my target window. Usually by some distance.
My sorted pellets were more accurate but only because it had weeded out the jumbo and peewee pellets.
I then took the “bad” pellets and mixed them together and shot groups. They were noticeably larger groups with fliers when shooting groups at 50 yards. At ten to twenty yards it didn’t seem to make a difference other that a few fliers.
Not worth it to me but I don’t make a living shooting competitions.
I do lube my pellets.
I like to plink with the cheap crossman .22 pellets. Well, I did when they were $6.26 a tin. These are filthy with shavings. I do pour these out on a paper towel and shake them around a bit and put them back in the tin. They are dirty.
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great write up, however living in Michigan and in the winter months we shoot once a week at the club inddoor range plus im retired its better to keep my mind on shooting than watching tv.
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I'm with you Keith. We turned the tvs off about 6 years ago, garbage and lies for the most part. So I spent yesterday measuring front ogive to tip on 107 Sierra Matchkings for shooting to 1000 yds this coming season. I sort them, in this case into two groups and then measure and sort them by base to ogive. Why? Because I can see the fifference on target. The tool I use measures to .0001. I can't see that with pellets on any consistent basis. So I shoot them out of the tin. I am lucky in that I live 5min from an indoor range I can shoot 25 yards every day. Now if I was a PCP guy shooting 100 yds with pellets I might have a different perspective, but zilch dark side interest on my part, I love deer hunting in Michigan.
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