How to select pellets?(out of tin)

[supperdog1]

Greeting shooters, I'm new here and just acquired a ANS superair 2002 from our host at great price. It is my first match gun. I used to shoot WH-55 with T stock. Can anyone tell me how you shoters select pellets. Do you weight it or check the width of the skit. Or, put pelles through a die defore use. Beemam sell those pellet dies. Dose any of elit shooters use it?

Thank you very much.

[Hip's Ax]

I am not an elite AR shooter but I asked this same question to a shooter I know who in my opinion is. The topic came up at a recent match because I noticed that this shooter does not use a shaker box, he picks from the tin. I asked why and he says he rolls each pellet between his thumb and forefinger before he inserts it in the chamber. He told me thats how he "looks" for deformed pellets, rough skirts etc. In a deeper conversation later I asked about the pellet diameter that is on each can, he says you have to buy a tin of each size, shoot them and then you can tell which diameter your AR likes best and buy only that diameter. He uses only R10 pellets in the tin.

[B.T.Carstensen]

What I did is when I got my gun I went ahead and got it pellets match.
They are H&N Final Match I like them alot.
And as far as rolling then with your thumb (it is a good idea I do it too) you can use a pellet box that way you can make a visual check of the pellets too.

--Brian--

[Guest]

Depending on your level of conviction, I mounted a scope to my air rifle and fired it off a bench at 10 meters with different brand and sized pellets and just picked the one that made the smallest groups. It's usually different for every gun, sort of

[supperdog1]

Sounds like if the pellet is not badly visiable deformed, the size of pellet effect more then the weight between each individual pellet and perfact round skit out of same tin.
R.G. Supperdog