Pellet Seating Tool...

[Cavalier]

Just to see what all the fuss is about, I knocked one up out of Delrin this afternoon.

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Whether it makes a difference I have yet to find out

But you can feel the pellet going into the rifling as you push the breech home. On the Steyr, there is only about 35mm gap when the breech is open, so it is easier to push the probe gently with the breech, unless you have tiny little fingers.

Nice looking tool and even if it don't work you will look cool using it
I expect it is you Target boys and girls that get the best from it isn't it????

[rogb]

Nice looking tool and even if it don't work you will look cool using it
I expect it is you Target boys and girls that get the best from it isn't it????

Ooh cheeky!

Actually got it out at the club today... the pellet probe, what did you think?

And guess what, with the Steyr groups at 45 yards were exactly the same as without probing, except a couple of mm lower due to the slightly lower velocity (about 15fps). So good try but no cigar.

I will try the same procedure in the 80 next time I get a chance to see if it helps with a .22 springer but TBH it was grouping brilliantly at 45 today too

[Phil Russell]

Having just found a tin of awful JSB Exacts (.177) with damaged skirts, I have spent a little while 'mending' the skirts to give plinking pellets. My mender was a simple round head plastic map pin stuck in the end of a bit of wood. Worked fine.

Incidentally I use the same map pins, but stuck in the end of a bit of dowel to seat pellets into the magazines for CO2 pistols. You need to arrange the pins in the correct spacing... 8 for the Walther clones, 10 for the S&W. Works perfectly.

Cheers, Phil

[olivercromwell]

If a pellet looks cr@p throw it away!

The only excuse for seating pellets is if you are 9 years old and your Gat is so low on power you can just about reach the end of the garden!

If you miss with one shot take another - it's boring to hit everything first time anyway!

Slightly imperfect pellets? - life is too short to worry about such things