Fliers lose points .... If one can't be 100% confident in his equipment your not going to be able to concentrate on your shooting skill well as you would otherwise.
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Thomas Air Damaged skirts, does it really matter?
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Most of us don't have the time or resources to sort barrels, but you are right in this regard, but sorting pellets is definitely a positive thing to do. When I shot 25M BR with my RAW TM1000, the most minute differences in all aspects of the equipment and my own psyche affected whether I won or lost a match, often by only 1 point. I've posted this picture before showing targets shot at 25M using sorted and unsorted pellets. You be the judge.
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Bent skirts matter.... sometimes. I think the real questions are, how much, and to whom? If you are a competitive shooter, it's foolish to take a chance with them. If you are a casual shooter or plinker, one might think it foolish to take the time to repair them. I can shoot bottle caps at 25 yards all day with awful pellets. They would not all score 10, but an 8 or 9 gets the cap every time!
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If you're sorting pellets, youve got plenty of time on your hands.
Barrels, like just about everything else in our universe, follow Gaussian distribution, or rather, bell curves. Most are decent, some are exceptional, and some are pure crap. One of my guns is on its 5th barrel. I won one of the 6? 2024 Extreme Field Target Grand Prixs last summer with that 5th barrel. With unsorted pellets, and the damned .22 Monster RDs at that.
(Ones ability to improve a barrel is also a factor, some can't be improved, regardless of experience and skill at doing so.)
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Now that you have your barrel sorted out, you can sort your pellets and do better next time-tee hee.
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Winners who shoot competitively typically are a tad neurotic & will pick up and turn over the smallest of stones looking for cumulative gathering of small nuggets.
By leaving it to dumb luck in having Zero Poa / Poi discrepancies due to the odd flyer is no different than not practicing before a match or in simpleton terms ... being unprepared for what lies ahead
Control and manage all you can will leave less to happen chance / poor luck.
By leaving it to dumb luck in having Zero Poa / Poi discrepancies due to the odd flyer is no different than not practicing before a match or in simpleton terms ... being unprepared for what lies ahead
Control and manage all you can will leave less to happen chance / poor luck.
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This share and conversation has happened many times over the years with many just Poo pooing the idea in general as non necessary. To others saying use a 1/4" Phono plug or Golf Tee etc ..
* What I've shared is a Precision Tool made for a specific pellet and not a universal fix all tool. In all thinking I made up 5 different ones in aluminum and marked them accordingly.
Made up a bunch more from acetal and gave them away to club members a few years ago.
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Part of the beauty of owning guns with FX Original Smooth Twist barrels is pellets such as the ones pictured don't phase its accuracy at all (as far as hunting with them). Competition might be another matter. "Minute of Squirrel Head" is different from a sixteenth or thirty second of an inch making a difference between winning & losing.
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Voy a cumplir 60 años, y si algo he aprendido en esta vida es que el control absoluto no existe fuera de un laboratorio, e incluso así, siempre hay algo que se escapa. Un tirador, en cualquier disciplina, puede intentar controlar muchos factores. Puede controlar algunos a la perfección, otros decentemente, otros que ni siquiera consideraría, y luego están los factores externos.Está claro que para los tiradores de competición cualquier detalle o mejora en el equipo de tiro puede ser muy significativo, solo digo que a veces es mejor ajustar nuestra arma con nuestra munición favorita, coger los balines directamente del bote y dejarnos llevar y disfrutar, mientras otros están tensos, nerviosos, medio paranoicos por no estar seguros de si han hecho bien su trabajo, si el viento es del norte, si recogieron a los niños del colegio o sacaron a pasear al perro.Nuestra actitud también ayuda a que nuestros oponentes pierdan el foco y llenen sus cabezas de errores.
Esta es una tarjeta sensata, solo bolitas directamente de la lata.
Balines JSB Exact Heavy de 10,34 gr.
Distancia: 25 metros, 27 yardas.
Campo de tiro abierto, a 200 metros, a 218 yardas del mar.
Viento moderado con rachas impredecibles.
Potencia: 14 Fpe, 780 Fps.
Fusil Steyr.
¿Qué se podría mejorar? Bueno, sí, se puede mejorar, pero en mi caso, seleccionar perdigones, lavarlos, pesarlos y clasificarlos me quita tiempo que podría dedicar a otras cosas. Al final, no vale la pena, y disfruto cuando salen cartas como esta sin planificación, y disfruto aún más cuando los tiradores que dedican parte de su tiempo a preparar todo el ritual obtienen puntuaciones más bajas.
PD: Me alegra que la tarjeta haya quedado bien. No estoy contento porque a otros no les haya ido bien.
Esta es una tarjeta sensata, solo bolitas directamente de la lata.
Balines JSB Exact Heavy de 10,34 gr.
Distancia: 25 metros, 27 yardas.
Campo de tiro abierto, a 200 metros, a 218 yardas del mar.
Viento moderado con rachas impredecibles.
Potencia: 14 Fpe, 780 Fps.
Fusil Steyr.
¿Qué se podría mejorar? Bueno, sí, se puede mejorar, pero en mi caso, seleccionar perdigones, lavarlos, pesarlos y clasificarlos me quita tiempo que podría dedicar a otras cosas. Al final, no vale la pena, y disfruto cuando salen cartas como esta sin planificación, y disfruto aún más cuando los tiradores que dedican parte de su tiempo a preparar todo el ritual obtienen puntuaciones más bajas.
PD: Me alegra que la tarjeta haya quedado bien. No estoy contento porque a otros no les haya ido bien.
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The lack of sensitivity to distorted pellets in that video at 10 meter is impressive. Now do that again at 25 and 50 yards, with round nose pellets...
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Pellets are made made from pure lead and very soft. Most pellets have skirts larger than the head diameter. So when they enter the barrel, the skirts are swaged to the barrel sealing in the propellent HPA propelling them. If the pellet damage is relatively light, they will still fly straight. Severe damaged pellets will not.
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