After watching all of the serious extreme bench rest shooters obsess over pellet weight and size, I broke down and bought a scale.
The amount of variation (even with premium priced pellets) surprised me. Previously I made the grand assumption that the premium brands produced a product which was within one percent of each other (one part per hundred). It seemed reasonable, I mean, we are paying a premium price for great pellets. What I was not expecting was to find a 4.65% weight variation in a single can.
I always thought some people were being silly weighing their pellets and putting them through a size gauge; it seemed to verge on an obsessive compulsive disorder. Now I am ruined. I am even wondering how much of the 1.88 percent velocity variation in my 42 shot string was my gun, or the pellet. Now I will probably end up being one of those pellet "tweakers" who buys a pellet diameter gauge.
The picture is from the weight sorting results of JSB Exact King Heavy Mark II (33.95 grain) pellets from a single can. Weight ranged from 32.8 to 34.4 grains.
The amount of variation (even with premium priced pellets) surprised me. Previously I made the grand assumption that the premium brands produced a product which was within one percent of each other (one part per hundred). It seemed reasonable, I mean, we are paying a premium price for great pellets. What I was not expecting was to find a 4.65% weight variation in a single can.
I always thought some people were being silly weighing their pellets and putting them through a size gauge; it seemed to verge on an obsessive compulsive disorder. Now I am ruined. I am even wondering how much of the 1.88 percent velocity variation in my 42 shot string was my gun, or the pellet. Now I will probably end up being one of those pellet "tweakers" who buys a pellet diameter gauge.
The picture is from the weight sorting results of JSB Exact King Heavy Mark II (33.95 grain) pellets from a single can. Weight ranged from 32.8 to 34.4 grains.