Choosing a tool
How Pellet Compares
Most air rifle shooters already track something — a notebook, a spreadsheet, a scoring app, a ballistics calculator. Each does one part of the job well. Here's how those common approaches stack up against Pellet, feature by feature, so you can see where the gaps are.
| Capability | Pen & paper / spreadsheet |
Target-scoring apps |
Ballistic calculators |
Generic log apps |
Pellet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measures group size from a photo | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works on any target, in the field | ~ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Logs weather & conditions automatically | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Wind angle relative to your shot | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✓ |
| GPS distance & location capture | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Identifies pellets from a tin photo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Lot / batch number tracking | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Ranks pellets by measured group size | ~ | ~ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Maps velocity across a PCP fill | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Correlates conditions with your results | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Trend analytics over time | ~ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Little or no manual data entry | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
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What the matrix is really showing
Each existing approach is strong in its lane. Pen and paper or a spreadsheet is flexible and free, but every figure is manual and nothing is measured for you — the record is only as good as your discipline on a cold day. Target-scoring apps are excellent at reading a group from a photo, but they're built for formal, official cards on the line and ignore the conditions, distance and kit that shape field shooting. Ballistic calculators predict where a pellet should go, but they don't record where it actually went, so they can't learn from your real results. Generic shooting-log apps store sessions tidily, but you're still typing everything in by hand.
The pattern is clear: the existing tools each capture one slice. The conditions live in one place, the group size in another, the pellet details in a notebook, the velocity in a chronograph's memory — and none of them talk to each other. That disconnect is the real problem, because improvement comes from seeing all of it together.
That's the gap Pellet is built to close. One session captures the group (measured from a photo), the conditions (logged automatically), the distance (from GPS), the pellet and its lot number (scanned from the tin), and the fill pressure — all in one record, with no spreadsheet to maintain. Then it shows you which pellets and conditions produce your tightest groups.
Which should you use?
If you only ever punch official 10-metre cards indoors, a dedicated scoring app does that job well. If you just want a trajectory prediction before a shot, a ballistics calculator is the right tool. But if you shoot in the field — different distances, real weather, multiple pellets and rifles — and you want to actually understand what makes you shoot well, you need the whole picture in one place. That's where Pellet sits.
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