With a pellet pen my fingers don't get cold quite as quickly in the cooler weather. In the warmer weather I use the back of my thumbnail to get the pellet flush w/ the breach.
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Seating pellets
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I have one of these around here somewhere. A Beeman Pell Pen, I think it was referred to as in the Beeman catalogs.
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My Webly Vulcan required the Pell Pen to seat the pellets into the rifling because the relief in the breach wouldn't hold the pellet allowing the pellet to fall out before closing.
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There's not much volume between the pellet and the breech face. Seating deeper increases that volume a lot. The space behind the pellet is going to affect start pressures and the point your piston recoils on the compressed air in the chamber.
It seems like a sensitive spot to adjust. Gut feeling tells me seating too deep would change the volumes too much and cause problems. As long as a seater got the pellet in there far enough and uniform it would be beneficial. Deeper may not be better.
A stiff pellet seated with a ball would seal up dandy. A skirt expanded too much may cause erratic start pressures. So some pellets may benefit from a seater and some may not. Head diameter, barrel diameter and skirt thickness might change the seating friction and thereby the strategy.
I use my thumb and try to get things uniform as I can. If a guy was serious about it he would test his best pellet with some creatively shaped seating tools that offered a range of depths and skirt expansion. It might make a good pellet better or a cheap pellet best.
...or it might do nothing at all.
It seems like a sensitive spot to adjust. Gut feeling tells me seating too deep would change the volumes too much and cause problems. As long as a seater got the pellet in there far enough and uniform it would be beneficial. Deeper may not be better.
A stiff pellet seated with a ball would seal up dandy. A skirt expanded too much may cause erratic start pressures. So some pellets may benefit from a seater and some may not. Head diameter, barrel diameter and skirt thickness might change the seating friction and thereby the strategy.
I use my thumb and try to get things uniform as I can. If a guy was serious about it he would test his best pellet with some creatively shaped seating tools that offered a range of depths and skirt expansion. It might make a good pellet better or a cheap pellet best.
...or it might do nothing at all.
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I made these up to be used with my AF guns. Short one is for 25 cal (8mm ball) the other has a 6mm ball on one end and an aluminum set screw on the other so pellet depth can be adjusted. Saves my thumb from abuse.
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