Thoughts? I can see weighing for FT / HFT as the name of the game is pretty tight tolerance for accuracy to knock down targets and the guns are frequently "tuned down" for accuracy vs power - ie; not necessarily for making small critters dead.
.22 and larger calibers though - ARE typically meant to make small game dead - be it vermin / pesting or small game for dinner. Obviously we need accuracy and consistency but with bigger, heavier lead flying out of the end of the barrel, with more air pushing it out at higher fps . . . . just how critical is the actual weight of the pellet?
Bored, nothing on TV, plus I'm waiting on a part to come in for my .177 that I plan on using for FT next year I just decided on a whim to weigh a tin of JSB 15.89's that I use in my .22. I've never even washed, let alone weighed .22 pellets before - just shoot 'em straight out of the tin and for the most part - they're pretty damned consistent. There are of course the occasional flyers but for the most part - they all pretty much go where I put the cross hair. I didn't go through the entire tin but I did make it through 3/4 of it and the lack of consistency was a bit of a bummer. According to the label - they're supposed to be 15.89's. In actuality they run the gamut from 15.5's on the low end to high 16.20's. Of the 300'ish that I looked at and was sorting into two empty tins - almost half of them were "out of spec" - and by that I'd given them ( I'm thinking ) a pretty generous acceptable range of 15.8 - 16.19 "in spec" weighting. Anything under 15.8 or heavier than 16.20 went into the "out of range" tin.
But - with these bigger, heavier pellets . . . and the fact that you're just needing to put them into a kill zone - they don't have to be super, pin point accurate like you'd like to have in FT / HFT - does it really matter?? Do any of you sort and weigh heavier "hunting ammo"? Just curious.
.22 and larger calibers though - ARE typically meant to make small game dead - be it vermin / pesting or small game for dinner. Obviously we need accuracy and consistency but with bigger, heavier lead flying out of the end of the barrel, with more air pushing it out at higher fps . . . . just how critical is the actual weight of the pellet?
Bored, nothing on TV, plus I'm waiting on a part to come in for my .177 that I plan on using for FT next year I just decided on a whim to weigh a tin of JSB 15.89's that I use in my .22. I've never even washed, let alone weighed .22 pellets before - just shoot 'em straight out of the tin and for the most part - they're pretty damned consistent. There are of course the occasional flyers but for the most part - they all pretty much go where I put the cross hair. I didn't go through the entire tin but I did make it through 3/4 of it and the lack of consistency was a bit of a bummer. According to the label - they're supposed to be 15.89's. In actuality they run the gamut from 15.5's on the low end to high 16.20's. Of the 300'ish that I looked at and was sorting into two empty tins - almost half of them were "out of spec" - and by that I'd given them ( I'm thinking ) a pretty generous acceptable range of 15.8 - 16.19 "in spec" weighting. Anything under 15.8 or heavier than 16.20 went into the "out of range" tin.
But - with these bigger, heavier pellets . . . and the fact that you're just needing to put them into a kill zone - they don't have to be super, pin point accurate like you'd like to have in FT / HFT - does it really matter?? Do any of you sort and weigh heavier "hunting ammo"? Just curious.
