Pellet Sizing and Removing Variables

I'll post 2 of my 4 videos below. I've noticed that "Sizing pellets" is a term that's used in two different ways. On one hand, sizing pellets means to push them through a devise in order to change the diameter. On the other hand, sizing pellets means to measure the size of the head and sort them into groups. 
Pelletgage.com sells a great sizing (head size measuring) devise.
As far as changing the diameter of the pellet. Those are vary hard to find. In fact, the shooters that choose to do that often turn to powder burner bullet making equipment. They'll use a press and die to push pellets through. 
I have seen (and have) pellet sizers for sale on eBay from time to time. Zeeman pellet sizers will rarely pop up on the classifieds, but they're usually for .177 cal. 
Be careful searching the internet for one. There used to be a guy over in europe making a punch disc that would size many pellets at once. If you pursue wanting to purchase, it'll pop up some virus emergency scam thing. It's too bad because the system looked like it would have been a nice one.
I've found JSB head sizes to be pretty darn consistent, by the time I get to that step of my sorting process, and all of my FX rifles are happy shooting them.



Happy shooting!
Tom

Edit: Part 3 video (sizing) is loaded and ready to post. I'll post it up here in a few more days. 

Cool! I'm happy to help.

Some thoughts...

Resizing, i.e. changing the diameter of the head and skirt is VERY dependent on your gun and what it likes. I have (2) BR rifles, both like smaller than the typical JSB head size, so I resize my pellets. For resizing gear I use NOE die for my 30cal and TbT for my 17cal. But before you go looking too much into this, see what your gun likes.

Sizing; with something like the pelletgage you can get a fairly accurate measurement of the head size of a pellet. When you start sorting them into the same size piles, what you'll find is a bell curve with the majority in the middle with small number of either size. The middle of the curve will almost certainly not be what's printed on the tin lol. You now have a assortment of sizes to test in your gun.

Wind; it's likely the most important factor in accuracy! So when you get to testing out settings, pellets, etc, you need to do it in "no wind", ideally inside with no big drafts. It's hard to find an indoor space to shoot at longer rangers, so do the best you can.

Cleaning and lube; I'm in the camp of its a good idea to get the lead debris off the pellets before you shoot them, as I'm pretty sure those list bits of lead will lodge in the barrel resulting in less than consistent/accurate POI. Lube, again its what does your gun like. Both of mine throw some of the wildest flyers if I lube my pellets. So you have to find out what your gun likes.

"What you gun likes"... Remember your gun is the gun in your hands, not the make, model or caliber of the gun in your hand. You can definitely get an idea of what your gun will most likely like by talking others with the same make, model, caliber as you, but its not a "sure thing".

"oledawg"Although a newbie to this sport and not having put a pellet down range with the rifle I don’t have yet, it seems after spending the time to wash, inspect and size to be counterproductive to then put them all back into a single container where they could get slightly abused bumping up against one another. Any thought or observation about that?

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As long as they aren't banging into each other, placing pellets together is not a problem. Keeping them in say a plastic pill bottle that would double for a rattle, bad idea. Put them in that same plastic bottle and pack it with cotton so they don't move around, just fine. Then handle with care, no dropping, throwing, etc.