The Best Pellet for Your Air Guns?

How do I decide which airgun pellet is best for a particular air rifle or a particular shooting situation?

For outdoor use the pellet which has the highest Ballistic Coefficient while still providing acceptable accuracy is the better choice - if it is not so heavy that the velocity loss is unacceptable. The most important point to make is that there is no substitute for testing pellets in your air guns. However, that being said, airgun ballistics tables can be a big help in initially narrowing down the choices from the the wide selection of air gun pellets available. By examining a set of airgun ballistics tables for the muzzle velocity of your air guns, you will be able to select a range of ballistic coefficients which will provide the pellet performance to meet your needs at the ranges that you expect to do most of your shooting. An increase in ballistic coefficient generally is in part a result of increased pellet weight, which inturn increases sectional density in any given caliber. Of course, increased pellet weight also brings a decrease in muzzle velocity from your air guns. However, remaining down range pellet velocity may actually be greater in a heavier pellet than a light pellet. In air guns, lighter weight pellets generally give higher initial muzzle velocity, which will give less drop, and less wind drift, but will retain a smaller portion of the muzzle energy as the range increases.

For indoor match shooting with air guns, the range is known and does not vary, so trajectory and retained energy of the air gun pellets is not a factor. The primary consideration is accuracy. And the ONLY way to determine which match airgun pellets will shoot the best in your air guns is to experiment with a variety of pellets to determine which is the most accurate AT THE TARGET DISTANCE.



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