Pellet skirt straightening?

[AirGunEric]

Had a small load of "test" pellets come in yesterday. Seems 'customs' decided to open the box, open a tin of pellets, drop them all over he!! and creation, then dump everything loosely back into the box which they then did not re-pack- result? A couple hundred crushed skirt pellets- and soon to be a CBSA supervisor at LBP airport getting an earful.

Normally I would only be slightly upset by this- but these pellets came from Argentina and all the units of one type were damaged- so in order to test them I need a good way to straighten out the skirts and I don't think pushing them through a rifled barrel is the best idea (maybe a smoothbore barrel would work better...).

Anyone ever figure out a good way to re-form pellet skirts?

[rsterne]

If they are like most pellets, the skirt is larger than the head by several thou.... so pushing them through something that fits the head (like a barrel) will shrink the skirts....

Bob

[SeanMP]

You could try a little swage block affair

Drill a hole ID to the head OD to the depth of the pellet
Flare the hole to match angle and rear OD of skirt

Cut an angle on an 3/16 rod to match the angle of the skirt ID

Then you would drop a pellet into the hole of the swage block and form the pellet skirt to the flare with the swage bar

..Best I can come up with

[ARSIE]

I ordered a few of these in from England, with my last Webley shipment. They work pretty good. Pellet is pushed through the centre and into your palm to resize and straighten . Can then be placed individually in their own storage spot for later use. As you can see though, only good for .177
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIR-RIFLE-...#ht_4234wt_905

[AirGunEric]

That might do it- at least for most of the damaged pellets...