Last night spent some time putting appart defective 18.3 grain pellets from a new tin.
Along time I got enough to feel sad to send them to the wastebasket.
This morning came to me an idea.
I found a 2 inch long piece of aluminium angle. I made it two holes in one side to receive screws an in the other side a 7/32 hole.
I took a nail for concrete an roundened the tip and softened the sharps of the tip.
I srcew the angle to a piece of wood in the side of the piece of wood.
I went one by one with the defecive pellets inserting them in the 7/32 hole and resheaping the tail of the pellet with the point of the nail and, finally, pushing the pellet to pass through the 7/32 hole. I am right handed, so I used my middle finger of my left hand to set the point of the pellet in the right place to allow the new rounding of the tail of the pellet making pression to the 7/32 hole with the nail.
Once I had finished reshaping the defective pellets, I took my Daystate Regal XL already sighted to see the groups I could make with the reshaped pellets.
I shot three reshaped pellets to my target at 50 yards.
The result:
One same hole, pellet on pellet.
I hope this could be helpull for you.
Now we know we do not need to send away those defective pellet that come in almost all tins. You can easily reshape them to shoot accurately.
Along time I got enough to feel sad to send them to the wastebasket.
This morning came to me an idea.
I found a 2 inch long piece of aluminium angle. I made it two holes in one side to receive screws an in the other side a 7/32 hole.
I took a nail for concrete an roundened the tip and softened the sharps of the tip.
I srcew the angle to a piece of wood in the side of the piece of wood.
I went one by one with the defecive pellets inserting them in the 7/32 hole and resheaping the tail of the pellet with the point of the nail and, finally, pushing the pellet to pass through the 7/32 hole. I am right handed, so I used my middle finger of my left hand to set the point of the pellet in the right place to allow the new rounding of the tail of the pellet making pression to the 7/32 hole with the nail.
Once I had finished reshaping the defective pellets, I took my Daystate Regal XL already sighted to see the groups I could make with the reshaped pellets.
I shot three reshaped pellets to my target at 50 yards.
The result:
One same hole, pellet on pellet.
I hope this could be helpull for you.
Now we know we do not need to send away those defective pellet that come in almost all tins. You can easily reshape them to shoot accurately.
