How does a person go about choosing the proper pellet for their air rifle?
There are so many factors that can affect air rifle performance that making the proper pellet choice can seem to be a daunting task. Individual characteristics of the airgun and pellet combine to play a major part in determining how well a particular pellet will group in a specific gun. A spring airgun’s rifling and choke, spring and spring guide attributes (where relevant) may have a positive or negative affect on the performance of a given pellet. Additionally, pellets are sold in different shapes, weights, lengths, diameters and alloys. Combining all those factors can make choosing the proper pellet quite confusing. What attributes make a pellet a good choice? The type of shooting task at hand will largely determine the attributes required for an ideal pellet. For general reference, we break shooting tasks into four main categories: * General Shooting (plinking) * Pest Control * Hunting * Target Shooting (field target, 10 meter or any other target event) Each shooting type will have
