I was keen to try these pellets. Got a tip from Dano46 that they where working well in his RedWolf. In all of Australia I may have found the only tin! So I have only 150 to try for now. Because I had so few I thought I should sort them carefully and give them every chance but had to shoot a few first in case I was wasting my time. At 50m 4 or 5 landed on top of each other 2 more within an inch so that looked promising. I’m shooting them out of my RedWolf hp
So I washed them and they were dirty as expected. I started inspecting them and just putting them back in the tin and noticed just behind the head a slither of lead occasionally. Then on every pellet I ran my thumb nail gently up the body of the pellet and discovered many had this slither of lead. Sometimes it wasn’t visible on inspection but my thumb nail would dislodge it.
After carefully removing all the lead slithers I started weighing the pellets There were 3 distinct weights The first was a well formed pellet and these where very consistent in weight All around the 29.15grain There where the light pellets at 28.5 and lower and these all had a flat nose like the pellet on the left below
Then there were the heavier pellets above about 29.2 and these seem to have the slither of lead squeezed into the body of the pellet as below
There are obviously some consistent problems manufacturing these pellets. The good news I guess is that you can pick out the problem pellets if you sort them and weight them. So I’m excited now to try thes pellets again as soon as the weather allows me to as I’m hopeful that this sorting may be worth the effort. In the end the weighing of the pellets became a form of quality control. I will of course post my results as soon as I can shoot them.
Michael
