Pellets -- Ribbed or Smooth -- What's the difference?
Pellets -- Ribbed or Smooth -- What's the difference?
A question out of curiosity....smooth versus ribbed pellets?
The ribbed design seems to be less common these days. The old Eley Wasps, Milbro Caledonian, and Beatalls had ribs. The current Ruko/Gamo pellets that I have are ribbed (Match + MagII). JSB doesn't seem to make a ribbed pellet and neither does Crosman. I still have not seem a H&N ribbed but apparently they exist in some types (not common).
Ribs are obviosuly part of a manufacturing process. Maybe it's an older thing that's "on the way out"? That's my guess anyway.
Todd
Ribs are obviosuly part of a manufacturing process. Maybe it's an older thing that's "on the way out"? That's my guess anyway.
Todd
Sometimes I wonder if it's make any different between smooth and ribbed, when I started doing R&D on pellets from on a gun, thru chrono, that the ribbed one was for sure it's more accurate but then again the smooth one is also accurate and with a higher impact. Another strange thing also as an example on my D36 .177 using hobby 7.0 gr. with ribbed skirt gives nice result with high velocity but then I tried using beeman coated red 7.3 gr. with smooth skirt gives higher velocity with more accuracy and much bigger impact. I guess in general it's all depends on alot of things for sure which gun works the best with which pellet at certain condition.
Hi ETA,
I guess that would mean the 10m target pellets such as the H&N Match pellets are swaged, the RWS R-10 Match are swaged, the JSB Match are swaged, Vogel Match are swaged. The popular Crosman Premiers, JSB Exact, H&N FTT, H&N Barracuda(Beeman Kodiak) are all smooth(swaged) and they are top field target pellets. Hmmm... if all the top competition pellets are swaged then maybe swaging produces a pellet that is somewhat more consistent and accurate? Hmmm...
Todd
I guess that would mean the 10m target pellets such as the H&N Match pellets are swaged, the RWS R-10 Match are swaged, the JSB Match are swaged, Vogel Match are swaged. The popular Crosman Premiers, JSB Exact, H&N FTT, H&N Barracuda(Beeman Kodiak) are all smooth(swaged) and they are top field target pellets. Hmmm... if all the top competition pellets are swaged then maybe swaging produces a pellet that is somewhat more consistent and accurate? Hmmm...
Todd