Washing pellets

[snookman]

I bought some cphp pellets from Wally World yesterday and they are the dirtiest pellets I have ever handled. I washed them with hot water and Dawn and they are drying in the sun right now.

 Do I need to lube them when they are dry. I did a search and saw someone using a little Ballistol in the tin for lube. Is ballistol safe for springers, or should I just shoot them dry.

 Never saw the need to clean pellets before, but these were really bad.  Thanks, snookman

[joe]

I get some of those pellets too and I think the led dust aka dirt would act as a lube for the pellets. I know my fingers are covered in a fine dust at the end of a session.

[Magnum]

I have washed pellets before with dishwash liquid, dry,then a really light spray of pledge in a jar... I have even weighed them into groups of same weight:)  I have had great success with the Benjamin Discovery .177 Cal and .22 Cal, I  do think it helps those pellets alot  This link is an interesting read on pellets not sure I agree with everything they say about deform pellets!  I use a pellet seater (cocktail stirrer) with same weight pellets  when I get serious, I think I need to try my own unscientic test to see if any difference, I will add that to list of things to do:p   http://www.sbftc.co.uk/Pellets.htm   and   scroll down to    " I have no social life and want to sort my pellets"  

[bigbadwulff]

I'd like to see some high-speed footage of deformed skirts to see if they come out of the barrel un-deformed. All that air pressure has to straighten them out to some extent.

[jay morgan]

I too use alot of wally store pellets , I agree with the dust being a sort of lube, fit seems too be biggest factor(I can call flyers by feel) but if you wash try a little powder graphite will still leave even worse fingers , but is a dry lube.

[Progun]

Hello Wade. About those Crossman pellets. Crossman brand pellets are different from most if not all other brands in that they are not a pure lead pellet. Now I am excluding the "lead free" and the other alloy gimmick pellets such as PBA Raptors from comparison to conventional lead pellets since the only people who shoot these gimmick pellets are those who don't know any better and those who live in locales that have laws against lead projectiles. The Crossman pellets are hardened with antimony and have a factory applied graphite coating which serves as a lube and as an anti-oxident. Dirty fingers are what you first notice when shooting and handling CP's. The graphite that you washed off eliminated the anti-oxident properties and should be replaced with some other lube to avoid premature oxidation of the lead. I too like Pledge furniture polish for this purpose. The benefits of washing and lubing CP's: Cleaner hands from handling and reduced barrel cleaning frequency. Good enough reasons for me.  I agree with Tom Gaylord that CP's  are an aerodynamic marvel compared to most other pellets and are at the top of my list for most shooting applications.

[airiscool]

Can anyone tell me why at Pryamyd Air the tin of 500 .22 cal CP's is $8.99, but the brown box of 625 CP's is 22.99 ?  

Buy two tins of 500 and you'd have 375 more pellets than the brown box and you'd save $5.01.  What's so special about the brown box
 
Paul.

[CitySniper]

airiscool - 4/1/2010  11:30 AM

Can anyone tell me why at Pryamyd Air the tin of 500 .22 cal CP's is $8.99, but the brown box of 625 CP's is 22.99 ?  

Buy two tins of 500 and you'd have 375 more pellets than the brown box and you'd save $5.01.  What's so special about the brown box
 
Paul.

I think they have better quality control, and more uniformity between pellets. But if your gun shoots the cheaper ones just as well? then that is an easy decision

[Perry50]

Paul, I've been told that tha CP's in the box are from the same cast and are more consistant. I have noticed better accuracy when shooting CP's from the box compared to ones in a tin.

[airiscool]

Thanks, I was wondering why the higher price for the boxed. That's up there with JSB Jumbo prices. I wonder if they are also hand sorted like JSB pellets supposidly are

Paul.

[snookman]

Thanks for the input guys. I have bought four other tins of the cphp's before, and I really didn't mind my fingers turning gray that much, but this tin had an excessive amount of lead fragments all over the pellets and the first pellet made my fingers look like they usually do after a 50 shot shooting session. I took the advise of spraying a little Pledge on the pellets. Thanks again, snookman