Quote Originally Posted by BTDT View Post
Unless you give each pellet, especially softer ones, the opportunity to create its own leading from scratch, you'll never know whether you've found the most accurate pellet for your barrel.
While I appreciate full well that you've forgotten more than I know on the subject of airguns, I have never felt the need to "lead in" a barrel.

I can hand on heart state that I have never noticed any great change in the accuracy of a pellet from the initial 10 shot test, & I include switching between lead / lead-free.

Possibly it's because I do not shoot huge pellet numbers, as a predominantly PCP shooter I don't plink away at targets, it bores me, once I know the scope is zeroed that's me done,
& out hunting obviously I'm not going to take any shot I'm not 100% confidant of.
So it's quite possible none of my barrels have yet reached the point of being "leaded in" to a particular pellet

Out of interest what sort of numbers would you say are required to "lead-in" ? I'm guessing a soft pellet would be less than with a harder pellet.