Simon Everett muses on the development of spring-powered airguns and wonders whether the best is yet to come. Many’s the time that I’ve heard conversations on the subject of spring airgun development, and how little progress has been made over…
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Have spring guns reached the pinnacle of their design?
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Gas Gun Goodness
Jonathan Young gasses on about the history of CO2 guns and offers a closer look at some of his personal favourites. While most airgun shooters know they can drop a 12g bulb into their pistol and get shooting, few realise…
Tagged with: .22, 12g, airgun, airgunners, airguns, bb pistol, bulb, carbon dioxide, co2, co2 guns, crosman, crosman 400 repeater, fullbore, gas, Girandoni, hammerli, humphry davy, industry brand qb78, Jonathan Young, michael faraday, model 70 pellgun, paul giffard, pistol, pneumatic, precharged, rifle, schimel, shooters, smith & wesson, soda bulb, tandem air cartridge, tank, target-shooting, thilorier, xs78
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Hide and seek for crafty crows!
Wily corvids are seldom easy to outwit, but their scavenging nature can be their downfall, as Mat Manning demonstrates as he sets up with hide and decoy tactics. The countryman: Mat Manning Mat relishes the challenge of crow-shooting. These birds…
Tagged with: ambush, birds, caller, camo, camoflage, carroin crow, corvids, countryside, crow-shooting, crows, decoy, farm, fieldcraft, headnet, hide, imitation bird, jackdaw, kit, mat manning, natural cover, nature, rabbit, realtree, shots, sitty
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Rock around the clock
Richard Saunders burns the candle at both ends as he heads out hunting before sunrise – and keeps on shooting into the night! Everyone loves the sales, don’t they? Don’t get me wrong – I hate shopping unless it’s for air…
Tagged with: .22 calibre, aa diablo field pellet, air rifles, basc, bsa r-10, bsa ultra, camping chair, forestry management, hunting, muntjac, pest control, primos trigger sticks, Richard Saunders, rifles, safe shot certificate, sales, shooting
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Create expectations: how to make a target box
BB shooter Jonathan Young keeps on the right side of his neighbours by building a target box to catch his ammo and keep everything peaceful and quiet. For safe plinking – and when shooting for accuracy – commercial steel pellet-catchers…
Tagged with: .25 pellet, accuracy, ammo, bb guns, bb shooter, Jonathan Young, paper target cards, pellet-catcher, plinking, safe, shooting, shots, spent, target box, target cards
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Target shooter: insight and expertise to help you raise your game
Whether you’re looking for just a few tins, or maybe pallets full of pellets for years of use, Andy McLachlan provides some pointers on purchasing projectiles. Maybe it’s just me, but I often wonder if the trouble that some shooters…
Tagged with: 40 yards, 8mm, AA Field, aim, Air Aims, Air Aims Field, ammunition, Andy McLachlan, barrel, downrange, ft, guns, hft, JSB, JSB Exact, lower ballistic coefficient, match-weighed, millimetre, parallax, parallax error, pellets, pre-charged pneumatic, shooters, target shooter, techniques, tin, velocity, weighed
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Learning to Shoot, Digweed Style!
Move over Percy Stanbury, George Digweed is teaching the instructors at EJ Churchill to pass on his world-beating technique, and Clay Shooting’s James Marchington has the exclusive. Ask any shooter who they want to shoot like, and nine times out…
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Mike Morton heads into the kitchen to cook up a batch of ballistic gel
Mike Morton heads to the kitchen and cooks up a batch of ballistic gel to find out how much pellet shape and calibre matter when it comes to a clean kill. An ethical hunter has one thing in mind when…
Tagged with: .177, .22, airgun, animal, ballistics, bsa r-10 SE, calibre, domehead pellets, equipment, ethical, field line, fmjs, gelatine, hollowpoints, humane, Hunter, kitchen, mike morton, muzzle energy 11.3, pellet, permanent cavity, powder-burner, primary cavity, projectile, quarry, shot, super-h-point .22, supermag .177, superpoint extra .177, superpoint extra .22, swift, temporary cavity, test, weihrauch hw
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First Look: KonusPro T30 scope
Good things often come in small packages, as Mike Morton finds out when shooting with the tiny but tactical KonusPro T30
Tagged with: air arms, airgun, airgun scope, airgun shooter, airgun sights, gun, Konus, KonusPro, optics, scope, shooting, shotgun, target shooter
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How to hunt birds with a decoy
You need to act quickly if you want to bag a few birds when flying pests descend on seasonal feeding grounds. Kev Hawker reflects on an enjoyable afternoon’s decoying over a cereal crop
Tagged with: air arms, airgun hunting, airgun shooting, basc, birds, cereal crop, decoy, pest control, pigeon shooting
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