Rifle pellets hard to chamber. Is this harmful?

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Blackthunder

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I live in Brazil and have been using pellets from a local brand called Rifle (https://www.rifle.ind.br/) . Their premium line is almost as accurate as anything comparable from H&N and JSB, they are also a little cheaper(In Brazil at least). They are well made although you can see see that pellets from the same tin are made with different dies.

These pellets are fairly hard to chamber; you really need to push to side lever / bolt forward with more force. JSBs are made with butter soft lead and require no force at all, H&N need a slight amount but these Rifle pellets feel as if they almost need to be re-swagged.



My question; can this harm my guns?








 
They are not likely to cause any harm to your rifle, with the possible exception of perhaps breaking the bolt while trying seat them. For example, some bolts have a relatively thin probe that pushes from inside the skirt, and can be broken if forced too hard. In other cases, the bolt handle may be the weak point. But other than that, you don’t really have to worry about breaking anything.



The only other “harm” would be to accuracy. Hard chambering is an indication something is getting sheared, smeared, or cut (or scattered, smothered, covered if you like the hash browns at Waffle House). It’s unusual in my experience to get good results when that happens but if they group well for you, I can’t argue with that.
 
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"IF" these pellets shoot well enough and accuracy is acceptable as you state ? Then I would address the barrels leade, throat depth etc to get the said pellet to either enter the rifling gentler ( best ), or give the throat more depth having the resistance felt chambering happen just as cocking bolt is about to lock up. * ideally when chambering NOT ENGAGED into rifling the throat should be at the pellets head diameter and skirt starting to collapse. Upon discharging the pellet is forced into rifling. *** IDEALLY however you want the pellets head fulling into rifling and the pellets skirt sitting right on the edge of rifling start so the pellet acts somewhat like a cork in a bottle. same applies tho the skirt needs to be touching the throat diameter and skirt just getting collapsed.



IMO

Scott
 
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They are well made although you can see see that pellets from the same tin are made with different dies.
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Have you sorted based on the visually discernible differences the dies produce, to see if one die set is easier to chamber than another, or are they all difficult to chamber? Perhaps they're a little bigger than the JSB/H&N's or they're just a harder alloy, or both. If they're slightly bigger than the JSB/H&N's, resizing would likely reduce the effort needed to chamber.

I like the hash browns at waffle house.
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I like hash browns withe green chile stew on top.
 
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Have you sorted based on the visually discernible differences the dies produce, to see if one die set is easier to chamber than another, or are they all difficult to chamber? Perhaps they're a little bigger than the JSB/H&N's or they're just a harder alloy, or both. If they're slightly bigger than the JSB/H&N's, resizing would likely reduce the effort needed to chamber.
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You can only spot the difference inside the skirts. From the outside they are remarkably well made and shiny.



The weight deviation is actually less than JSB Exact Heavy or H&N Barracuda.

I have one of these pellets gauges; pelletgage.com ( I have not used it yet) It would be interesting to measure them.

You can deform JSB pellets with your fingers, with these that is not possible. I also have a pellets sizer and yes these Rifle pellets are somewhat harder to push trough. When going tough the sizer there is more initial resistance and then just plop trough (if that makes sense). Sizing does not make them chamber easier.



But then again if you guys say that a somewhat harder pellet does no harm, then I will just keep shooting them.

I guess these pellets maybe have more antimony or tin in them?










 
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