From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 5/17/2025 1:18 PM, Leon Fisk wrote:   
   > On Sat, 17 May 2025 09:27:13 -0700   
   > Bob La Londe  wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >> Unless somebody has been shooting steel BBs through the barrel its   
   >> likely (sans lead fouling) as good as it was when it was new.  Lead   
   >> pellets are typically dead soft lead.  They are not hardcast like pistol   
   >> projectiles.   
   >   
   > Older models had a magnetic tipped probe kinda needed for holding BB's   
   > in place. They changed this at some point and the new probe was no   
   > longer magnetic and no mention of shooting BB's in the literature   
   > anymore...   
   >   
      
      This one has the magnet in the bolt . Can't really see down the   
   barrel well enough to tell the condition of the rifling . I just pushed   
   a pellet (miked .1755") down the bore from the muzzle , pushed easily   
   and didn't engrave the head or skirt of the pellet at all . Is there   
   enough air pressure on the pellet to expand the skirt into the rifling ?   
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