Pellet sorting Part 2

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Lord have mercy, you DO have the patience of Job! If you are going to be THAT precise on your pellet sorting, maybe you should think about cutting up the little foam pads that JSB uses so pellets are not damaged in the tin while in transit ... and lining the bottom of your box with that. I have dozens of old tins that I was going to throw away and then decided to just mark the pellet weights on the tins with a Sharpie. When weighing 25.39 pellets ... I keep all 25.2/ 25.3/ 25.4/ 25.5 pellets in separate tins. Those that fall below 25.2 go in one tin all together and those above 25.5 go all together in one tin to be used for chronographing or plinking at 50 yard 2" spinners. As far as head sizes, I have found the 25.39 JSBs to be very uniform on my pellet gage. But the age old question is always in the back of my mind ... is my gun and my shooting ability accurate enough to utilize these small incremental differences between pellets. Sometimes I can land a whole magazine on the diameter of a dime at 65 yards in my Impact and other times I couldn't buy a bullseye if my life depended on it. That's the trouble with competing against yourself ... you're only as good as your last shot. Thanks for the video ... ohhh and BTW ... where did you get that cool coal miners light?
 
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Tom I really enjoy your videos, Thank you for the time you spend doing them.

If I was shooting EBR I would invest the time as well. As stated in another thread, I sort to 25.0-25.2 --25.3-25.5 anything over or under have their own tins which at some point I will also sort. Pretty much just like likkitysplyt. And like him? I have had days I swear I was going to sell this chit and go back to shotgun sports! I couldn't hit may ass with both hands in my back pockets!!! Ok Nuff of that.
I need to order that tray and I want to see the head sizing you do. Being new to these high end guns, this has been a great experience. I am just now getting used to my Airwolf.
Last weekend I finally had 1.5" 100yard groups. With the 25.0- 25.02 rounds. I also am going to get a stock rest. That is what causes the wobble. After that? Its heart rate.
It's a different game when you use a gun vise. 

 
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@sirk - Washing and inspecting makes the biggest difference. Weighing and head sizing have not been tested to their effectiveness. Physics would suggest that they must make a difference but, I'd need a windless shooting range to see it.
Yes, "badly" deformed pellets would be noticed during loading. But minor defects, that would still cause issues, could easily be missed. 

Thanks to everyone for the comments! :)
Tom
 
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Air guaging is the aay to go for sorting out my head diameter, sort a tin of 300 in 20-30 mins. Also it totally takes out the human inconsistencies that the "pellet gauge" has, i sold mine after getting a air rig. 
Also the defect pellets make great barrel fowlers after a deep cleaning of the barrel. When weighing, turn off and air movement like a ceiling fan, it affexts the scales..lol
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"sirk"have you double-checked if you method works?
how much POI change is there between the separated 25.3 and 25.4 and 25.5 groups?

or it is all just a mental thing.
Of course chucking out badly deformed pellets helps, but you would notice those during loading anyway if you were paying attention what you are doing no?
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The problem is as good as the airguns we have today, the same weight pellet will often have a different velocity, not because of the weight but because of the gun. So its hard to test out exactly how significant even a grain difference in weight might be. IME when you sort out pellets by weight your results will form a bell curve and those pellets that fall into the majority will shoot more consistently than those on the outer edges of the bell curve.

What I suspect is that there are voids/inclusions in the pellets. These will cause the pellet to unbalanced. An unbalanced pellet will have an inconsistent POI.
 
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"Salticon"I think after EBR ill make a video, so everyone can see differant ways and routines, Tom, you and i have very similar ways, i like to setup for minimum hand movement and efficiency. Also like to listen to some Steely Dan on pandora....haha!!
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I'm looking forward to seeing how this method works. Good luck with the video!
Tom
 
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for those who venture into sorting:
before you start sorting tins into groups, you have to determine the resolution of the scales/ balance you are using.
You have to figure out what is the smallest weight difference the balance can distinguish.

once i had dodgy scales giving random (quite wide spread) results even when i was measuring the same pellet multiple times. it would be a waste of time trying to split a tin into 5-10 groups of weight like that.
good luck

Tominco, did the pellet sorting give you the competitive edge then?
 
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