If you’ve been shooting for any length of time then you’ll already know how important it is to find the correct pellet for your particular rifle. If you were to ask a non-shooter to open five tins of pellets they probably wouldn’t notice any difference, unless the head shapes were of a completely different design. But the pellets in those five tins, even if they were all seemingly identical, might perform very differently when put through the same airgun.
Because of this we carry out pellet testing, shooting different brands, sub-types, weights and even head sizes until we’ve isolated one or two very specific types that work really well with our barrel. This is something I do a lot when writing articles for this magazine, and I’ve explained my procedure in some detail in the past.
But a reader recently contacted me to explain a different scenario that many of us have probably experienced too. We shoot a pellet, find it inadequate in terms of accuracy and so reject it. Then
