Weighing Pellets is the sixth decimal to far out?

[milacik]

Another long and completely useless thread about all these pellet weight variations, come one guys if you have spent all that time doing all the hard work separating why don’t you show us how these actually....shoot on paper, POI as a function of weight groups!!!



nothing else will convince me start doing the weighting routine.

 

[Smitty911]

Another long and completely useless thread about all these pellet weight variations, come one guys if you have spent all that time doing all the hard work separating why don’t you show us how these actually....shoot on paper, POI as a function of weight groups!!!



nothing else will convince me start doing the weighting routine.

Easy big fella, I had a question, so I asked it. Not trying to make converts out there. I was curious about it, so I weighed the pellets. I've heard back from experienced shooters with air rifles and if your shooting for score it will reduce the likelihood of flyers. That number seems to be .1 grains and shoot the batches. I dig into things to deeply and have determined for myself, I'll just be cleaning and lubing the pellets until I get enough time on the rifles to where it would make a difference. I may also work on some kind of auto sorting thingy (I have the plans in my head at this point).

I don't think it was a useless thread due to the fact that I've learned a few things.

Smitty

 

[milacik]

We had many many similar threads but none finished fully,properly. Sorry for my scepticism. if you don’t compare the shooting performance is there any point parading the numbers here?

It seems the scales have you got you can do these precisely with high resolution I.e. you can separate pellets into many many narrow weight spread groups yes. But I am more interested in the change of POI between those groups themselves. Basically how many heaps is it worth separating into.

2, 3, 5?

I get it you don’t want any random extra light pellet among heavy as it may fly out(still not sure about that) or opposite between lights a heavy weight would cause problems or?



shoot one group with light one group with medium and another with the heavies at 3 separate drawing paper thick crosshairs and see if it is worth all the effort. I work in analytical branch too prefer to drill deep down into things...you are not that way off from drawing a conclusion! Let’s see it



p.s. What pcp have you got, of course the shooting test will only work if the gun can group tight.

or we will Not learn anything from this experiment. Best is to perform indoors and gun clamped down. The distance well, the further away the better.

as I wrote before, not many shooters have access to precision scales like that, so your the man. Shoot them, weights alone are boring

 

[Smitty911]

We had many many similar threads but none finished fully,properly. Sorry for my scepticism. if you don’t compare the shooting performance is there any point parading the numbers here?

It seems the scales have you got you can do these precisely with high resolution I.e. you can separate pellets into many many narrow weight spread groups yes. But I am more interested in the change of POI between those groups themselves. Basically how many heaps is it worth separating into.

2, 3, 5?

I get it you don’t want any random extra light pellet among heavy as it may fly out(still not sure about that) or opposite between lights a heavy weight would cause problems or?



shoot one group with light one group with medium and another with the heavies at 3 separate drawing paper thick crosshairs and see if it is worth all the effort. I work in analytical branch too prefer to drill deep down into things...you are not that way off from drawing a conclusion! Let’s see it



p.s. What pcp have you got, of course the shooting test will only work if the gun can group tight.

or we will Not learn anything from this experiment. Best is to perform indoors and gun clamped down. The distance well, the further away the better.

as I wrote before, not many shooters have access to precision scales like that, so your the man. Shoot them, weights alone are boring

Good point as always. I have them all cleaned, weighed and waxed. I left one tin of .25 un-sorted and one other tin of .22 un-sorted. The rest I have broken down to the .001 gram.

So my rifles of choice will be the Brocock Bantam in .25 Cal. I'll be shooting from a rest. I may be able to do this indoors up to 50 yards, I'm working that one out. I'll also be using my new Red Wolf .22HP as well. I've only fired less than 20 shots through the Bantam and none through the Red Wolf, I'm wondering how many I should put through prior to making the MONEY shots to season (as I've only read) the barrel. Or is that a factor?

Smitty

 

[JamesD.]

Too far out? I'd be out of my mind if It made a difference at ten hundred thousandths of a grain. I can't even think of chemicals that have to be that precise. Yes, I do believe perfectly weighed consistent pellets pushed through a die, same head size & skirt, no blow by would give better groups. Not only same weight & size but spun & balanced also. While I'm at it let me polish the lead to a nice shine. Good Lord Charlie Brown I'd go nuts. Glad I don't compete. You proved we're not getting what we paid for & I appreciate that. Real quick. The Red Wolf's 3 settings, entire rifle is really nice, but; if my rifle needs a battery & a motherboard, I wouldn't feel as if I'm shooting more than playing a video game. Just me. I'm aware their valve is very efficient with that solenoid valve but so are quite a few well built regulated rifles. This pellet weighing & sizing. Chokes serve a purpose or two. Accuracy & keeping us sane.