Air pistol Teiler table and the Teiler factor for rifle comparison

September 8, 2026 · 6 min read

What is the Teiler?

The Teiler is the distance from your shot hole’s center to the target center in hundredths of a millimeter, 1 Teiler = 0.01 mm. On the air pistol target the same distance means a different ring score than on the rifle target, because the rings are wider. If you only came to look something up, the table is right here. After that we explain why the pistol counts 80 Teiler per tenth and what the Teiler factor is about.

The Teiler table for the ten and the nine

The table works in tenths of a Teiler, the way ranges and scoring machines display the value. The upper limit still belongs to the better score: an 80.0 Teiler is a 10.9, an 80.1 Teiler a 10.8.

Full rings from 8 down to 1

From the eight outward, the full-ring limits are enough. Every ring is 800 Teiler wide, and the tenths inside it run in steps of 80 Teiler just like above.

The outer limit of ring N sits at 800 × (11 − N) Teiler. Beyond 8,000 Teiler the shot hole no longer touches the one ring, and the shot counts zero.

Tables for other targets

For the air rifle with 25 Teiler per tenth there is the air rifle Teiler table.

Why 80 Teiler per tenth

Three dimensions of the air pistol target define the table. The ten is a circle of 11.5 mm diameter, so its radius is 5.75 mm or 575 Teiler. From ring to ring it is 8 mm, or 800 Teiler. The pellet is 4.5 mm in diameter, the same as for the rifle, so its radius is 2.25 mm or 225 Teiler.

Then there is the edge rule: a shot scores a ring as soon as the edge of the shot hole touches the ring line. For a 10.0 the outer edge of the hole still has to reach the ten line. That works as long as the hole’s center is at most 575 + 225 = 800 Teiler from the target center. This is why the ten ends at 800 Teiler, and every further ring ends 800 Teiler later.

On the air rifle target the ten is a dot of 0.5 mm, and the rings sit 2.5 mm apart. The ten ends there at 25 + 225 = 250 Teiler. Every pistol ring is 3.2 times as wide as a rifle ring, and the tenths follow the same ratio: 80 instead of 25 Teiler.

For the decimal score, each ring is divided into ten equally wide zones of 80 Teiler. As a formula:

Decimal score = 11 − Teiler ÷ 800, truncated to one decimal, capped at 10.9

The result is truncated after the first decimal place, which is how the ISSF rulebook defines it (rule 6.3.3.1): a shot has the value of the zone it lies in. A 641.3 Teiler computes to 10.198, and the score is 10.1. The cap at 10.9 is part of the formula, because the fraction alone gives 11.0 for a 0 Teiler, and the scale ends at 10.9.

Inner ten on the air pistol target

On the pistol target the inner ten is a separate circle of 5 mm diameter in the middle of the ten. It counts as soon as the shot hole touches that circle. With a circle radius of 250 Teiler and a hole radius of 225 Teiler, that works up to a center distance of 475 Teiler. So inner tens are all shots up to and including 475.0 Teiler.

That limit sits in the middle of the 10.4. Up to 475.0 Teiler a 10.4 counts as an inner ten, with a 480 Teiler it is the same 10.4 without one. From the 10.5 upward, all of them are. The rifle rule works differently: there the hole has to remove the ten dot completely, and the inner ten begins at the 10.2.

The Teiler factor between air pistol and air rifle

In pure geometry a pistol Teiler is 3.2 times as far out as a rifle Teiler with the same decimal score, 800 against 250. At a club king’s shoot (Königsschießen) or on a luck target (Glücksscheibe), though, pistol and rifle often shoot onto the same Teiler list, and then the club needs a conversion. The competition rules usually give a divisor between 2.6 and 3.0 for the pistol. A pistol shooter with a 300 Teiler enters the list with a 100 Teiler at factor 3.

At factor 3 the three examples land on the same tenth for the rifle as for the pistol: a 100 Teiler is a 10.6 there as well. The divisor 2.6 turns the 300 into a 115.4 Teiler, a 10.5 for the rifle, so the pistol shooter gives up a tenth. The further the divisor sits below 3.2, the more of that goes against the pistol.

For supported shooters (Auflage) the conversion runs the other way. Their Teiler is multiplied by a factor around 1.5, competition rules show values from 1.4 to 1.8, so that they can compete against freehand shooters.

The DSB rulebook has no Teiler factor. Each club sets the value in its own competition rules, and DISAG systems have a dedicated setting for it. So read the rules of the king’s shoot or luck target in question; the value that counts is written there. In the Teiler calculator you can enter the factor and see the converted Teiler next to the measured one.

How Ring Reader calculates

Ring Reader stores the Teiler as measured and applies no factor to it. After you scan a photographed target, and on every import whose format carries Teiler values, the Teiler of every shot appears in the “Shot Breakdown”, along with the “Best Shot” and “Average / Avg Deviation” cards. Inner tens appear with a dot right next to the total, for example “97.3 | 2·”. When an import delivers only ring scores without shot positions, the app counts every 10.4 as an inner ten, because the 475 Teiler limit cannot be measured then. Under “Records” you find your “Best Deviation”, which is your best Teiler, kept per discipline, so the air pistol value stays separate from the air rifle one. Why two systems can print a different tenth for the same Teiler is covered in Teiler and ring score.

In the competitions, the “Monthly Pistol Teiler” runs every month, and the smallest pistol Teiler of the month wins. If you want to see pistol and rifle on one leaderboard, pick the competition type “Decimal digits”. There only the digit after the decimal point counts: a 10.4 earns 4 points, with the pistol as with the rifle, and a 6.9 earns 9. A factor plays no part there, because only the digit after the decimal point enters the scoring. It is the only format that can be set up across all disciplines, and as “Monthly Decimal Digits” it runs every month for everyone. The app describes it in one line: only the tenths count, 10.9 and 6.9 are both 9 points, pure luck. Edited or estimated shot positions do not count in the Teiler competitions. You can view the leaderboard without Pro. Joining takes Pro.

Frequently asked questions

How many Teiler make one tenth on the air pistol target?

80, because the distance from ring to ring is 8 mm, or 800 Teiler, and decimal scoring divides it into ten zones of 0.8 mm each. Up to 80.0 Teiler a shot is a 10.9, up to 800.0 Teiler still a 10.0. On the air rifle target it is 25 Teiler per tenth, because the rings there sit 2.5 mm apart.

What Teiler factor does the air pistol have?

There is no fixed one. Geometry gives 3.2, because a pistol ring is 800 Teiler wide and a rifle ring 250. In their competition rules, clubs usually divide the pistol Teiler by a value between 2.6 and 3.0, so a 300 Teiler becomes a 100 Teiler at factor 3. Which value applies is written in the rules of the shoot in question.

Does a Teiler factor also apply to supported shooting?

Yes, in the other direction. Supported (Auflage) shooters get their Teiler multiplied by a factor around 1.5, competition rules show values from 1.4 to 1.8, so that they can stand on one list with freehand shooters. This factor is not in any rulebook either; it is set per competition. Ring Reader always stores the measured Teiler and applies no factor to it.