Pellet size

[trick cyclist]

And this is before we get onto thinking about pellet weight!

Does anyone know which variable has the most effect on accuracy, head size or weight? I'm not sure I have even seen this comparison done anywhere yet, but recall seeing a thread some time ago about what some of the top shooters on this forum do to get consistency from their ammo - pretty sure it involved accurate weighing?

Edit: need to type faster, Steyr got there quicker!

[chris.e]

Good explanation from Steyr - I especially liked the very last sentence about being too analytical.
I had a spell of weighing, sizing, washing and lubing pellets but that all stopped after achieving a personal best from using pellets straight out of the tin.
Now, I only check for damaged pellets.
Having said that, my discipline is Hft and so I might do things differently if I was Benchresting.

[ChrisC]

Steyr covered much of that and with a nice bit of humour too.

I have a very good batch of pellets. I weighed 2 full tins and then worked out that there would have been a 12ft per second difference between the lightest and heaviest in the group. Won't make a great deal of difference if shooting FT or HFT but certainly makes the claims of '4fps spread over a fill' mostly guff.

[tinbum]

I went through a brief phase of weighing, washing and sorting pellets. Weight made no difference that I could tell, sorting and sizing did. Captain Bongo made me a beautiful, fat stainless sizer which matches my beautiful, fat fingers! It's therapeautic if you're in the right mood, but at the end of the day it makes a difference of millimetres, I miss by inches!

[hareng]

You will only have to weigh each slug if you have a bad batch!
Current 2011 JSB Exact using were not available for resale, no need to weigh all on the money within reason and heads pretty good throughout the 30k, use straight from the tin.

Weights dont make hardly any difference to the groups ie shoot out 7.2 to 8.8gr JSB Exacts from same tin labelled 4,53 that measure predominantly 4.47. So if weighed out +/-0.2gr only get 700 from 5000 any good. In that 700 with the weighed 8.2gr to 8.6gr, get 4 head sizes equating to 35 usable from a tin of 500 thats quality.
Thats just one batch whatever its branded as (JSB, Cometa, AA, Webley, FX etc) dies wear out and the tin will tell you how many times the dies been used.

[Steyr]

Steyr covered much of that and with a nice bit of humour too.

I have a very good batch of pellets. I weighed 2 full tins and then worked out that there would have been a 12ft per second difference between the lightest and heaviest in the group. Won't make a great deal of difference if shooting FT or HFT but certainly makes the claims of '4fps spread over a fill' mostly guff.

I guess it was the gnats spbincter that tipped it for you😊😊😊