ShotStrings.com is the most complete, explorable database of real airgun performance — built from actual chronograph data, not spec sheets or marketing claims. Look up any rifle or pistol and see exactly how it shoots, shot by shot.
There's a whole community of airgunners on YouTube who test and compare how air guns actually perform. They put a chronograph in front of a gun, shoot a full string — sometimes several magazines — and report the velocity and energy of every shot. Plotted out, those numbers form a little curve: a shot string.
The trouble is that all of that data stays trapped inside the video — scribbled on a scratch pad or flashed on screen for a second. There's no good way to explore a single string, compare one gun against another, or check whether the numbers hold up. It's fragmented across hundreds of individual videos, and effectively impossible to use.
A YouTuber links their video and enters the setup — the air gun, the projectile, the fill pressure, and the velocity of every shot.
We calculate the full energy and velocity curve and file it in the database, tied to that exact gun and configuration.
Pull up any gun to see its strings in a clean interactive graph, and put multiple guns head to head by velocity, energy, or consistency.
Every shot string links straight back to the YouTube video it came from. If you ever doubt a number, you can watch the exact source it was pulled from. The data isn't something you have to take on faith — it's measured, attributed, and verifiable.
The goal is to be the definitive home for air gun performance: for any given gun, its real shot-string data, the source videos behind that data, and — over time — the community discussion around it, all in one place. It works because it's a flywheel. Creators submit because the site sends viewers back to their videos; every submission makes the database more complete; a more complete database draws more enthusiasts; and that audience gives creators even more reason to submit.
More creators, more data, more people who care about how these guns truly shoot — measured, not claimed.