Well it’s very rainy, and windy weather here in the PNW so I went to COSTCO picked up a food Saver and this is how I spent my time this morning putting my CP .20’s away, so they don’t go to waste for the next few years, and this is only about a 1/4 of them. Had to order more Canisters to hold the rest of them only about 140 boxes to go!!!!
Do you shoot the CP.20 pellets mainly from a PCP? Did you pre-lube them before putting in canisters?
Long ago, around year 2000 we had a professor on one of the airgun forums. Someone asked about pellet storage for long duration. As we all know, the air is what causes oxidation and it's best to keep the air from our stored pellets. Professor had a great idea. Place pellets into an airtight mason jar while leaving some air space. Place a tiny candle, on a foil plate, inside the jar. Light candle and seal jar. The air will burn up. I think he also suggested leaving a paper towel in the jar that was moistened with some sort of denatured alcohol to remove the last trace of air. I'm not sure on this last point because it has been many years since I read the article and the old AGL Forum doesn't exist anymore.
TCooper wrote:Do you shoot the CP.20 pellets mainly from a PCP? Did you pre-lube them before putting in canisters?
Long ago, around year 2000 we had a professor on one of the airgun forums. Someone asked about pellet storage for long duration. As we all know, the air is what causes oxidation and it's best to keep the air from our stored pellets. Professor had a great idea. Place pellets into an airtight mason jar while leaving some air space. Place a tiny candle, on a foil plate, inside the jar. Light candle and seal jar. The air will burn up. I think he also suggested leaving a paper towel in the jar that was moistened with some sort of denatured alcohol to remove the last trace of air. I'm not sure on this last point because it has been many years since I read the article and the old AGL Forum doesn't exist anymore.
HTH,
Todd
Todd,
I have 2 guns that shoot the CP’s extremely well, both guns were very expensive PCP's and so far I have not found a pellet that groups as well. In light of the fact that rumor has it that the CP’s are discontinued, I stocked up on 198 boxes of them @ 625 per box. I did not lube them, but the canisters you see are air tight there is no air in them it was sucked out by a machine that is designed to do just that..
Here is the picture of the Food Saver machine as well as the canister the tube extracts all the air out of the Canister, the little grey button letts the air back in when you want to re-open it, can be used over and over again. This seemed like the best way to store the pellets over a long period of time.
well, thats an alright idea killer-b, only thing is, those jars are still full of air... not much you can do about it unless you fill it with oil or something. see, if you pulled all the air out, you'd collapse the jar and crush every pellet in it, into one large mass of lead... THEN youd be airless.
killercrow wrote:well, thats an alright idea killer-b, only thing is, those jars are still full of air... not much you can do about it unless you fill it with oil or something. see, if you pulled all the air out, you'd collapse the jar and crush every pellet in it, into one large mass of lead... THEN youd be airless.
Well you might be right but whatever air there is left is a very little amount.
That's a neat machine you got there. Great idea to use it for pellet storage.
If the CPs are bone dry you could try pre-lubing them to help prevent oxidation. They might have a factory lube on them already.
That's a neat machine you got there. Great idea to use it for pellet storage.
If the CPs are bone dry you could try pre-lubing them to help prevent oxidation. They might have a factory lube on them already.
That is enough .20 pellets to last life time. Why use .20 only ?
BTW, any recommedation of places to shoot around vancouver ?
papaburger,
As I said above it really is the only pellet that my guns like out to 50 yards and beyond that group the best. Bewtween 10 - 30 yards there are a few that are good, but when you start going past that yardage the good and the bad grouping pellets show thier colors fast.
are you talking Vancouver, Washington or Vancaouver Canada???