Originally Posted by
Bent Ramrod
If yours were regular diabolo pellets, it might have been some flashing from the die. Were they Chinese pellets?
I have one of those English .177 pellet moulds (can't find it now, of course, to check the maker's name). The blocks are cylinders of brass fitted together end to end, and there's no sprue plate. By dumping lead all over them, you can get maybe 6 out of 10 good ones, that fill the nose all the way. The pellet cavity is sideways in the mould, the nose going deep in one block and the base shallow in the other. They're mostly nose, a long spitzer with a flange at the bottom to take the rifling. You have to pull them out of the mould by the sprue with pliers and bend it off after it cools. This leaves a torn spot in the flange.
That said, they shoot surprisingly well in my Beeman P1 Magnum, and hit very hard. Perfect for Survivalist Airgunners. Pretty well made, if elementary.