After playing with the king heavies, I decided to make a sizer that would allow me to try multiple sizes. I took a piece of .600" plate and bored holes from .248 to .258 with a 60° leed in. It allows me to sort head size or size the pellets to any of the 10 sizes. If I play with it I can size head to one size and skirt to another. I took a plastic multi pocket storage box and labeled it with each size and sized 10 heavies and 10 lites to each size. Now I have a size sampler to try. It will be interesting to see the results.
Made a new toy, .248 - .258 pellet sizer/sorter
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I cut through all that by just re-sizing all .25 cal pellets to 0.2500" through my old Beeman pellet sizer.
I do have 0.2515", 0.2505", and .2500" re-sizers but the two BSA barrels both shoot very well with the heads and skirts sized 0.2500". The pellets I use are the new King Heavy, old King light, Baracuda, Benjamin and the super accurate (to 75 yd) Predator Polymag all sized to 0.2500" . All heads from the tin finish up the same size and so the rifle treats them all the same.
Re-sizing does a number of things that I have discussed over the years on the YF and a some here. If one finds a size that suits their rifle, it saves sorting and batching but occasionally I still Yrrah Roll some to see their consistency.
This isn't limited to the very powerful rifles. My TM 1000 handles full re-sized .177 JSB and H@N pellets with just a little loss in mv. I have 4 re-size Beeman dies of different bore for the .177 and three each for .20 and .22 and .25. These Beeman re-sizers were around for many years when re-sizing was somewhat popular before better quality control on field pellets' manufacture in the last 20 years brought us to the present. .
With some of the harder pellets and those with squashed skirts I flare the skirts with a Beeman Pell-seater ball, then re-size the skirt, generally with a die one size larger than the head .
I don't have numerous tins of different head size pellets that generally seemed to shoot to a slightly different average group center anymore.
But it is all an interesting journey regardless of how we approach it, right? ..... Best regards, Harry.
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I do have 0.2515", 0.2505", and .2500" re-sizers but the two BSA barrels both shoot very well with the heads and skirts sized 0.2500". The pellets I use are the new King Heavy, old King light, Baracuda, Benjamin and the super accurate (to 75 yd) Predator Polymag all sized to 0.2500" . All heads from the tin finish up the same size and so the rifle treats them all the same.
Re-sizing does a number of things that I have discussed over the years on the YF and a some here. If one finds a size that suits their rifle, it saves sorting and batching but occasionally I still Yrrah Roll some to see their consistency.
This isn't limited to the very powerful rifles. My TM 1000 handles full re-sized .177 JSB and H@N pellets with just a little loss in mv. I have 4 re-size Beeman dies of different bore for the .177 and three each for .20 and .22 and .25. These Beeman re-sizers were around for many years when re-sizing was somewhat popular before better quality control on field pellets' manufacture in the last 20 years brought us to the present. .
With some of the harder pellets and those with squashed skirts I flare the skirts with a Beeman Pell-seater ball, then re-size the skirt, generally with a die one size larger than the head .
I don't have numerous tins of different head size pellets that generally seemed to shoot to a slightly different average group center anymore.
But it is all an interesting journey regardless of how we approach it, right? ..... Best regards, Harry.
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PelletGage have just started manufacturing in 0.25". Apertures from 6.33mm to 6.42mm (0.249"-0.253") in steps of 0.01mm (0.0004").
I have one in 0.22". Works well.
http://pelletgage.com/products/25-pelletgage
I have one in 0.22". Works well.
http://pelletgage.com/products/25-pelletgage
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