There is a lot of talk about finding the pellet your gun likes. I have started to wonder if it is less about the pellet (or slug) the gun likes and more about a couple other variables.
1. Maybe certain pellets/ slugs like different twist rates. I know, or at least I think I know, that slugs like a faster twist rate than pellets, so maybe different pellets like different twist rates.
2. Maybe certain pellets like different velocities. Again I think I know that slugs like higher velocities, so maybe different pellets do also.
3. Maybe for a given pellet there are velocity -twist rate combos that work. For instance let’s say we are talking about 18gr JSB’s and find that they do well in particular barrel at 890 FPS and the barrel has a 1:19 twist rate. In another barrel that has say a 1:16 twist rate maybe the pellet is not accurate, but if the velocity is changed (higher, lower?) maybe it would be accurate, so maybe that 18gr JSB in the 1:16 barrel needs to shoot at 920 FPS.
Now we typically are not going to buy multiple barrels of different twist rates so for a particular gun the twist rate is not a variable we can change, so we can change pellet or velocity. If this theory is correct a chart could be made where someone could find their barrel twist rate and pellet they want to shoot and then see the velocity they prefer, or they could choose a velocity they wanted and then find the pellet that would work well at that velocity and twist rate.
It might make finding the accurate pellet/velocity easier.
1. Maybe certain pellets/ slugs like different twist rates. I know, or at least I think I know, that slugs like a faster twist rate than pellets, so maybe different pellets like different twist rates.
2. Maybe certain pellets like different velocities. Again I think I know that slugs like higher velocities, so maybe different pellets do also.
3. Maybe for a given pellet there are velocity -twist rate combos that work. For instance let’s say we are talking about 18gr JSB’s and find that they do well in particular barrel at 890 FPS and the barrel has a 1:19 twist rate. In another barrel that has say a 1:16 twist rate maybe the pellet is not accurate, but if the velocity is changed (higher, lower?) maybe it would be accurate, so maybe that 18gr JSB in the 1:16 barrel needs to shoot at 920 FPS.
Now we typically are not going to buy multiple barrels of different twist rates so for a particular gun the twist rate is not a variable we can change, so we can change pellet or velocity. If this theory is correct a chart could be made where someone could find their barrel twist rate and pellet they want to shoot and then see the velocity they prefer, or they could choose a velocity they wanted and then find the pellet that would work well at that velocity and twist rate.
It might make finding the accurate pellet/velocity easier.