Diy pellet sizer
- Thread starter Airfuture
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Beautiful set up, but personally I've never been able to wrap my head around sizing pellets like this - doesn't the same thing happen when the pellet is loaded into the leade and then the bolt is pushed home? Why do it in "two steps" like this versus just the "one step" of loading straight from the tin? Please enlighten me on the value of this.
That said, I do get sorting by weight and head size, and have done so quite a bit . . .
That said, I do get sorting by weight and head size, and have done so quite a bit . . .
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would love to find a pellet skirt sizer , as in it flairs the back edge of the skirt out a few thousands forming a thinner lip edge . too fragel to ship as a maker but great to forme and shoot . then again maybe it would not work as envisioned ?
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I am using the Trrob pellet sizers for .22 and .25. When I got these tools I still had to put some personal effort to bring the precision to my liking.
Resizing the pellet head and the skirt in a cone shaped hole (different dia each), not a push through but a push in- and- back.
I believe the push through works for slugs only - the best.
Resizing the pellet head and the skirt in a cone shaped hole (different dia each), not a push through but a push in- and- back.
I believe the push through works for slugs only - the best.
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I have done the opposite of this with an old Beeman pellet sizer, using the largest sizer that they made for it - I think it is 5.57 in .22 cal. It makes all the skirts the same size, but the heads just pass through untouched. It takes the skirts down slightly, but still below the diameter they end up in the barrel.
I then use these pellets that have identical sized skirts to sort by rolling on glass - the different head diameters really stand out, not ot mention the out of round pellets that one can easily hear and cull. This is the method that I think was pioneered by Harry Fuller.
Shooting similar head size batches of pellets has less to the highest accuracy I have obtained . . .
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The cone taper of 1 degree to 1.5 degree works well for me. I push the pellets in the cone just enough to create a solid ring mark around the head.
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