I think most of us have had or read about someone with a tin of "magic" pellets.
So what makes that one tin of pellets so much better?
Unless your air gun is very consistent and you as a shooter is the same it won't matter. I read all the time on AGN about how people have rifles that group 1/2 inch at 50 yards. That would be inside of a circle made with a dime. These are the shooters that could use magic pellets? So lets look at what exactly a pellet is.
Most are shaped the same if you look at JSB and H&N and many of the other brands. And I mean look at them under a microscope.
They all weight a little different but that part we as shooters can fix.
There is all sizes of pellets in the head size and skirts..........but once again shooters can fix that if they want to put out the effort.
Easy enough to make sure the skirts are perfectly round by a couple of methods and after that check them with the roll method?
So now the scary part of "magic" pellets. What if its how hard or soft that batch of lead was the day they made them? Maybe the lead stirrer dropped his coffee in the pot?
Testing how hard the lead is in a pellet can be hard since with different weights the skirts can be thicker or thinner. And I've tested a lot of them by the thumb nail method over time. The scary part of that is we the shooters can't effect this part.
Maybe it was the first week of a new pellet press at the factory?
You read all the time about someone ordering a boat load of "magic" pellets if they can get the same lot number.
my money is on that coffee the lead stirrer dropped in the vat!
All ideas why some pellets are "magic" are welcome! (can you tell I didn't have any guns to work on today?)
So what makes that one tin of pellets so much better?
Unless your air gun is very consistent and you as a shooter is the same it won't matter. I read all the time on AGN about how people have rifles that group 1/2 inch at 50 yards. That would be inside of a circle made with a dime. These are the shooters that could use magic pellets? So lets look at what exactly a pellet is.
Most are shaped the same if you look at JSB and H&N and many of the other brands. And I mean look at them under a microscope.
They all weight a little different but that part we as shooters can fix.
There is all sizes of pellets in the head size and skirts..........but once again shooters can fix that if they want to put out the effort.
Easy enough to make sure the skirts are perfectly round by a couple of methods and after that check them with the roll method?
So now the scary part of "magic" pellets. What if its how hard or soft that batch of lead was the day they made them? Maybe the lead stirrer dropped his coffee in the pot?
Testing how hard the lead is in a pellet can be hard since with different weights the skirts can be thicker or thinner. And I've tested a lot of them by the thumb nail method over time. The scary part of that is we the shooters can't effect this part.
Maybe it was the first week of a new pellet press at the factory?
You read all the time about someone ordering a boat load of "magic" pellets if they can get the same lot number.
my money is on that coffee the lead stirrer dropped in the vat!
All ideas why some pellets are "magic" are welcome! (can you tell I didn't have any guns to work on today?)
