As promised.
First off: George is new -ish to 6&1/2s so before letting me place, or him accepting my order, he checked that having 6s stamped on the cartridge would be acceptable to me as the cost and delay in getting a small run of the correctly sized cases would incur time and cost penalties. I confirmed that this was not a problem - the boxes are correctly annotated.
E-mailed over the weekend to get an order update. First thing Monday I get a phone call - if you can let us know before noon these will be with you tomorrow. This I did and at 10:30 this morning they were on my doorstep. Now, what Joanne did not know was that I'm stuck in the house all day as the car is in the garage so I was well pleased. A good start. They were well packed, palletised and delivered by a reputable national carrier.
First impression: Not too shabby at all:
That'll be game..........
I always open a new batch to do a pellet count for pattern testing, carefully opening the crimp so that I can put the pellets back in and close the crimp and then use them as the "from a previously fired barrel" bit. The count was spot on - 333. However, the quality, the consistency and the fact that when the inner counting tray was removed they ran true across the outer when tilted was outstanding:
and set..........
Will post again after the pattern test