Damaged JSB pellets

I came across some damaged pellets that were from the middle of a well packed pellet sleeve. Those pellets were always good so I just opened a new tin and dumped some in my shooting bag and went off to a club shoot. When I started shooting them I had a bunch of damaged skirts. I just dropped them in my shirt pocket to deal with later. At home I took them out of my pocket thinking of trying to repair the skirts. I remembered seeing a tool Motörhead had made that was a really nice. I searched posts and found his tool. I will have one of those some day. I took one of those headphone jacks and fixed about a 1/2 tin. Some of the worse ones I keep aside for a test group. After repairing those I shot a 12 shot group at 30 yards off my sticks and stool. They went into a group that looked less than a 1/2" I didn't measure the group. I marked the tin pests and will save those for gophers and pigeons around the house. I was happy to find that I can use those for close stuff anyway. When I get some time I will shoot a group at 50 just out of curiosity. Here is an example of the worse bent pellets.



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I have noticed that jsb could use some money to upgrade their tins. The softest and thinnest tins I have seen. The tops and bottoms can smash in denting the delicate skirts. Other companies have harder tins with more air space in there so the pellets can move and settle away from the top or allow a little room for squishing. It is not all shipper fault as I can order several different tins of pellets from the same company, all shipped in same protection padding and the jsb's arrive with more bend skirts than the other brands.



You can get a guitar cord jack to fix the skirts. I use one to seat pellets in my pp700.