Do you think this would make a difference?

I noticed the way the probe is designed in my Royale the air comes up the transfer port and hits kind of a t-junction. With the pellet on one end.

So some months ago i roughed up the inside of both .22 and .25 probes and filled in all the open space between the tp and solid metal with jb weld. (End of "horizontal" drilling) seems like its drilled a bit too deep and gives the blast of air some mixed up flow. I have no training in any scientific field so im just guessing.

How it is shown on a .30 probe (full depth)

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That last picture shows how its drilled pretty deep.

This is my one (.25 ) after jb weld filling the extra drilling depth and shaping.

I wonder if it improves flow in some way? Just something i wanted to try and easily reversible by drilling it back out.

Jb weld filled, sorry really hard to photograph. Ive used both this one and the same procedure on the .22 probe as well with no issues. Wish i did a baseline before. 

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Air flow during a PCP's shot cycle is largely turbulent, not laminar. When the valve is knocked open, air flows around the poppet into the valve throat, turns and goes up through the exhaust, through the transfer port and barrel port, and turns again to meet the pellet. It's a pretty chaotic "journey" lasting a few milliseconds. Rounding edges and trying to guide an imagined column of air helps a little but it's pretty mundane compared to, say, just opening the passages up. Of course if the passages are already opened up as much as the parts will allow, rounding things off is the last little thing that can be tweaked. Given the small effort usually required, I'm an advocate of doing it.

Another thing that can be said about the bolt probe being drilled too deep is that it represents an unnecessary volume that must be pressurized during the shot cycle. Frankly all the volume between the valve seat and the back of the pellet is wasted volume that would not exist in an ideal world. Minimizing it will have a positive effect on efficiency / shot count but it would have to be really deep for you to see a meaningful improvement by filling it.