Default ammo

Default ammunition.

In Escape from Tarkov there is a wide variety of ammunition with varying velocities, damage, and penetration values coupling this with a ballistic model that emulates real life ballistics.

Each rifle in escape from Tarkov is effectively “zeroed from the factory” for a particular ammo type, we refer to this as the default ammunition type.

The comparative velocity of bullets to this default ammo will where your bullets land compared to where you are aiming as seen below. You can think of this as a "zeroing modifier"

The larger the variance, the larger the shift between the impact zones.