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Air rifle accuracy, explained.
Practical, no-nonsense guides for field and target shooters — the stuff that actually tightens your groups. Written by shooters, for shooters, and tied to the way Pellet App helps you measure it all.
How to find the best pellet for your air rifle
Every barrel is fussy. A simple, repeatable test to find the pellet your rifle shoots tightest — backed by measured data, not guesswork.
Read the guide →How to test five pellets on one target sheet
Five candidates, one sheet, one session. Aim-point spacing, settling shots between pellets, shots per group, and what to log for each pellet.
Run the test →Air rifle group size chart
What counts as a good group at 25, 30 and 50 yards, how to measure centre-to-centre, and how to read it all in MOA.
See the chart →What your group shape is telling you
Size tells you how well you shot; shape tells you why. Vertical stringing, horizontal stringing, fliers and split clusters — and the cause behind each.
Read the diagnosis →Mil-dot ranging: judging distance with your reticle
Use the marks in your scope to estimate range to quarry of known size — the simple formula, worked examples and where it helps.
Read the guide →How to zero an air rifle scope
Which distance to choose, the "two zeros" of a pellet's arc, and how to build a holdover card that works at every range.
Read the guide →How many clicks to zero a scope?
Millimetres to MRAD to turret clicks — the arithmetic, a free click calculator, and how Pellet App reads the correction off one photo.
Use the calculator →Reading the wind for air rifle
Why light pellets drift so easily, how to judge direction and value, and how to learn your own rifle's wind sensitivity.
Read the guide →Chronograph numbers explained: FPS, FPE, ES & SD
What each figure really means, the 12 ft·lb legal line, and why consistency beats top speed every time.
Read the guide →Best pellets for the Air Arms S510
Where S510 owners commonly start in .177 and .22, why the fill curve matters on an unregulated rifle, and how to settle it on your own barrel.
Read the guide →Best pellets for the Weihrauch HW100
The HW100 has a reputation for being unfussy about pellets. Here's what owners actually name — and why unfussy still isn't the same as identical.
Read the guide →Best pellets for the Daystate Red Wolf
Electronic power control holds velocity flat, which makes pellet differences unusually easy to see — and makes power setting part of the test.
Read the guide →The UK air rifle 12 ft·lb limit explained
What the threshold measures, how muzzle energy is calculated, why margin matters and where the rules differ across the UK. General information, not legal advice.
Read the guide →Air rifle terminology glossary
MOA, MRAD, extreme spread, mean radius, ES, SD, FPE, BC, head size, holdover — fifteen terms defined plainly, each linked to the guide that goes deeper.
Look it up →How Pellet App compares
Paper, scoring apps, ballistic calculators, generic log apps — a feature-by-feature matrix of where each one falls short.
See the matrix →Stop logging on paper.
Pellet App measures your groups from a photo, logs your conditions automatically, and shows you what's really making you a better shot. Launching first on iOS.
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