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Umarex Walther PPK/S BB Pistol
For the plinkers in the audience I wanted to cover a fun little item that is an accurate enough replica to be valuable as a training arm as well – the Walther PPK/S from Umarex. This is an all metal...
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Umarex HK P30 CO2 BB/Pellet Pistol in .177
Umarex is a leading purveyor of BB and pellet firing replicas of famous firearms and this example is a licensed copy of the popular P30 series from Heckler and Koch that is actually manufactured in...
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Washing pellets? YES!!
As a competitive shooter, I wash and sort my pellets. But, is there a reason to wash them if you’re not a competition shooter? I say, YES! Air rifles can be picky about which pellets they like. Whether...
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SIG SAUER “We The People” CO2 BB Repeater
If collectors and enthusiasts refer to the time of airguns crafted of German and British engineering with richly blued steel and top-quality hardwood stocks as the “golden age”, then what we are seeing...
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Extreme Benchrest is coming!
Extreme Benchrest is coming! The 8th annual Extreme Benchrest Competition will be held from Oct 11th-14th at Rio Salado Sprtsman’s Club in sea, AZ. This is the premier airgun competition of the year...
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It’s A Shootout At The $300 Corral!
First Of All, Someone Threw Down A Gauntlet… Around a year ago, the Umarex Gauntlet started shipping. That was a big deal because – for the first time – a regulated, magazine-fed, shrouded PCP air...
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MTC Optics Mamba-Lite Riflescope
If you have an aversion to snakes I’m going to ask you to buck up and read on so I can relay info on one of the MTC scopes named after vipers. MTC Optics is a British scope maker around for about a...
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The American Tactical Nova Freedom – A New Multi-Pump PCP Air Rifle
I first saw this interesting new air rifle at the annual IWA exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2017. Then it was called the Nova Vista HP-M1000. It impressed me as one of the two most innovative...
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SIG Air P320 CO2 .177 Pistol
The SIG Sauer Advanced Sport Pellet (ASP) line was launched in early 2015 and has now been rebranded as SIG Air in a move to better reflect Sig Sauer’s commitment to become a major player in the...
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Upgrading the Diana Outlaw PCP Air Rifle
At the time of writing, there is a variety of upgrade possibilities available for the Diana Outlaw air rifle or soon will be… Diana has taken a very enthusiast-friendly approach to their new regulated...
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Let’s Talk Pellets – A Daystate Rangemaster Sovereign .22 Cal Pellet Review
It’s my strong conviction that – even now – people spend too little time thinking about pellets! Many airgunners I know spend endless time and effort on their air rifle, but more-or-less take the...
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Hatsan Vortex SpeedFire in .177
Springer air rifles can be very accurate and versatile for uses ranging from plinking to hunting. However, loading pellets singly for each shot can be a bit of a fumble-finger exercise, especially...
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New Accu-Tac Bipods!
Accu-Tac has redesigned all of their bipods and will no longer be offering the old style. They’ve also slimmed down their selection to only their best selling models. A lot of benchrest shooters use...
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Herr Hans Weihrauch Talks About His Company, Weihrauch Sport
In this exclusive interview, Herr Hans Weihrauch – the owner of Weihrauch Sport – talks to Stephen Archer. We met most recently at the 2018 Extreme Benchrest competition in Arizona. Here’s how the...
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Benjamin Vaporizer .22 Caliber
New to the Benjamin line up of break-barrel rifles this year is the Vaporizer from Crosman, now part of Velocity Outdoor. Fitted in an ambidextrous black polymer pistol grip stock, it offers clean...
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Don’t Let This Happen To You!
It’s PCP airgun corrosion – this is what moisture does to your air rifle… It’s widely known – or at least fairly widely – that PCP airgun corrosion is caused by moisture in the air that’s used to fill...
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The SIG ASP20 – A Great New Breakbarrel Air Rifle
The SIG ASP20 was one of the most-anticipated air rifles to be introduced in 2018. I first shot it at the 2018 SHOT Show in January, then again at the formal SIG Press Launch in July 2018. Now the...
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An Airgun Industry Crystal Ball
The 2019 SHOT Show will be with us very soon now. So, before it happens, I’ll take a risk and make some predictions for what I think we may see there… THE FUTURE FOR PCP AIR RIFLES. At the 2017 SHOT...
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January is just about SHOT…
Tis the season to discuss all things SHOT – the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Sports trade show held in Las Vegas. A gigantic celebration of all things related to guns of all manner as well as anything...
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New Products From Daystate And Brocock At The 2019 SHOT Show (And More…)
For this report from the 2019 SHOT Show, we’ll take-in new products from Daystate and Brocock. There’s a lot of them and there’s more too… A star attraction was the the new Brocock Patagonia PCP air...
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