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Hynzie

Hynzie

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so its freezing in the NE so i basically have collected far more tins of pellets,,, than i can shoot ,,i have way over 150 tins of pellets id say 100 tins are JSB DIABOLO ,,well i had some time this morning,,i dont like scheduling any work for sundays its a holy day.. meant for family and friends,,, 6 work days a week is plenty ,,so i decide to take a couple tins from each of my last half dozen purchases,,,got to use my mic and scale,, first time doing anything but shooting straight from the tin ,,weights where all over the place,, ok that happens to everyone,,, but the damaged skirts ,totally un acceptable close to 30% bent and unusable crap,,, so if thats the case out of the 100 tins, i probably will discard 30 tins ,,thats a rotten # ,,,,all theese have been bought through AGD ,who does a great job packing them pat
 
I blame the manufacturer when I open a tin that looks flawless on the outside but has a large amount of bent skirt pellets. I suspect it comes from cramming too many pellets in a tin. I use mostly JSB pellets because their soft lead pellets load in my gun the easiest. The soft lead also makes the pellet skirts far more likely to bend than the harder alloys commonly used by other manufacturers.
 
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This guy has taken his page down for some reason, but there was an air gunner in Norther Arizona who was shooting some pretty high end stuff, and he did a good many hunting videos. I wish I could remember his name and site, but it's gone so I guess it doesn't matter. 

Anyway, he did this video and article where he shot a group of pristine pellets and then he shot the same number of pellets with bent skirts. I think it was .25 cal. He did an accuracy setup, and his conclusion (as demonstrated by the groups) was that slightly bent skirts, like the ones we all get in a tin due to movement in shipping, do not effect accuracy. His explanation was that lead is soft enough that it balloons out at high pressure in the barrel and this eliminates the deformity in the skirt.

As I say, I just saw this and found it interesting, so I have no experience with this, but I think it would be interesting for someone to maybe replicate his experiment. Have you tried anything like this Pat? Would be very informative. 

ATB, 
Michael
 
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"rjos3ph"Beachgunner is his name varmintair? If it is I miss his stories and videos a lot. Wish he would come back, his writing is very good, easy to understand.
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Yes!!! 

That's the guy. Right, he was really, really informative and did some great work. One day, I went to check his site to see what was new and "puff". 

Gone. Did a search back then and could not find a thing more about him or his vids. Really too bad. He had a good channel. Hope nothing bad happened to him. 
 
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Maybe I am just an old country boy but I have never sorted pellets, I guess because it never occured to me that I needed to sort them. Of all the years of shooting pellets I can't remember an occasion where I was faced with the thought of having to overcome inaccurate pellets, and I have just blindly been grabbing them out of the tin since I was a kid. I do hate when the tin has obviously been damaged in shipping and I get them and they are half flat, but other than that the whole pellet sorting, washing, drying, oiling, and manicures :) just seems unnecessary. I've never missed a shot and thought to myself, "Dammit! If I had only lubbed that pellet!" However, I am sure I have blamed plenty of misses on a bent skirt. :) 
 
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I have tried a few experiment s nothing on the good side i open another 30 tins being careful to match to the first batch i opened. Scme tins r better than othets im not sure but theres a flaw someweres obvious are they using a shovel to scoop out a bin or does the bin fill so much the weight chushes them..they no what we no a $14 tin is not worth spending time and aggrevation money to fight with supplier or manufacture .99%of tins look great from outside no dents so its at the manufacturing plant.must say i open 10 cans each of 30 cal and 22 cal poly mag and they look great especially the 30s
 
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"BeachGunner"This guy has taken his page down for some reason, but there was an air gunner in Norther Arizona who was shooting some pretty high end stuff, and he did a good many hunting videos. I wish I could remember his name and site, but it's gone so I guess it doesn't matter. 
Anyway, he did this video and article where he shot a group of pristine pellets and then he shot the same number of pellets with bent skirts. I think it was .25 cal. He did an accuracy setup, and his conclusion (as demonstrated by the groups) was that slightly bent skirts, like the ones we all get in a tin due to movement in shipping, do not effect accuracy. His explanation was that lead is soft enough that it balloons out at high pressure in the barrel and this eliminates the deformity in the skirt.
As I say, I just saw this and found it interesting, so I have no experience with this, but I think it would be interesting for someone to maybe replicate his experiment. Have you tried anything like this Pat? Would be very informative. 
ATB, 
Michael
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Mr Gaylord I think we need some assistance
 
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