This article is intended to benefit airgun hunters, but I hope it will prove useful to other disciplines as well, because it's all about understanding your pellet's trajectory and using the best zero distance for your needs.
It's vitally important to understand that airguns kill with precise shots, and we cannot rely on the huge power that centrefire rifles produce to make up for misplaced ones. A pellet drilling through a squirrel's brain will kill it cleanly, but a shot through the nose or throat will see the animal run and perhaps die later. Precision is the key and anything you can do to help you shoot straighter is your friend.
DOWNWARD CURVE
Many people wrongly believe that their pellet flies in a straight line after it leaves the barrel, when in fact it flies in a tightening downward curve that gets steeper as the distance increases. Further, your scope sits above the bore and actually
