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Topic: WTB: .177 pellet gauge

Posted By: Grey Kiwi
Subject: WTB: .177 pellet gauge
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2025 at 1:43pm

I reckon I need a pellet gauge gadget (.177).

New tin, new batch number of H&N FTT.

Normally shoot OK, but with the latest lot I'm now getting a few fliers and a different 'floof' as the gun fires.

You can hear the difference in the shot, and you are rewarded with a 9, not the 10 you wanted.

I do wash, dry lube, inspect skirt, and weigh pellets but this latest lot of H&N aren't doing me any good.

The odd pellet just slips into the breech...and doesn't shoot 'right'.

The pellets that take a wee thumb push to seat them all shoot OK.

Any pellet gauge for sale on here please?

Thanks.

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Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2025 at 7:07pm

Try a barrel clean before you spend money on a pellet guage. usually works for me when pellets start misbehaving.
Or maybe its just my rifle playing up for some attention ;-)

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Walk quietly, but carry a big stick.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 9:36am

If you have the tooling you could use a reeming tool for exact size.
There are just tins that sux.
Ive had some huge variations in tins. Enough so that i wonder sometimes if they just do runs of mixed reject pellets into tins because its cheeper than remelting and recasting them and distribute them amongst cans of good pellets.
Speculation only, on my behalf.
Buy im guessing you got a bum tin or two. Use em for plinking or take them back.
H&N FFT come in three sizes in .22
Hence my theory.
Yet to find nz shop suppler who
A: even knew this.
B: even cared or would try to order in the tins of a specific size.
I was after 5.53mm as those were the size that gave the tightest group and one of the sizes fft come in.

Posted By: Grey Kiwi
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 9:53am

I recently cleaned the barrel after shooting the last of my H&N FTT of a different Lot Number.

Barrel could just need leading in again.

I did just buy this...

https://fentonshooting.co.uk/products/fenton-pellet-sizers-precision-cnc-made?variant=47553162543389" rel="nofollow - https://fentonshooting.co.uk/products/fenton-pellet-sizers-precision-cnc-made?variant=47553162543389

Bought the 4.53 size, stainless steel.

Also bought a 3mm - 13mm tapered reamer from Ali.

So I can have a play with both toys when they arrive.

The tapered reamer will allow me to make a few variations in some alloy plate to use as a head size gauge.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 9:58am

Have you poked a pellet through the barrel and measured the final size it came out?

Posted By: Grey Kiwi
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 10:17am

No.

The 9015 has a choked barrel which will upset any measured size?

I could poke a pellet 1/2 way through and then poke it back out again...but that's a PITA so I never bothered to. Yes, I'm getting lazy as I get older.

I have noticed that the skirts on the FTT are way big (diameter) compared to other H&N pellets and/or other makes of pellets. JSB just fall into the breech.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 2:27pm

Im not sure on that. But the pellet has to go through the choke so its going to end up that size.
As skirt flare is what seals for push so don't see that being a issue if the skirt is larger than usual. Its also the thinnest part of the pellet so pretty maliable.
Maybe just push one in enough to engage the rifling for a pellet length then back out and one all the way through to see what choke takes it down too.
There will be more onto ppl on site who can give advice from more experience.( For all i know you are one) Depends how fussy you want to get.
I just tend to sort pellets. Target shoot to find what sizings shoots tightest, then stick to that sizes for hunting and the rest for plinking and correcting faults in my technique.
So there aren't many out of spec I don't use. 😆

Posted By: Grey Kiwi
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 2:43pm

H&N (which I prefer) have a fairly thick skirt, and tough.

JSB are thinner (call it a mid thickness). But their QC now is woeful.

QYS are quite thin and malleable.

The H&N take a good shove to get them in to the breech.

JSB and QYS just sort of fall in...but as their skirts are thinner they possibly seal better with a burst of air up the bum...although my 9015 is the HP model it probably only gets a max of 100bar at the breech.

Yes, the choke sort of ruins things a bit...so I figure that I might as well size the H&N pellets down to be a better match with the breech size so that at least the pellets sit straight in there (and not forced in a tad canted by a ham fisted loader).