We speak to committee member Peter Loftus about an airgun club that’s been going for 45 years and offers shooting for the visually impaired. To view the club’s website, just click here. Tiverton Target Club in Devon was founded in…
Behind the Scenes
Club of the month – Tiverton Target Club
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, club, clubhouse, Range, shoot, shooters, shooting, tiverton target club
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At your service
Mike Morton goes on a servicing and repair course to find out how the engineers who work on your PCPs get trained Any airgun shooters of a practical nature will be able to tear apart a springer themselves, but the…
Tagged with: Brocock, daystate, mike morton, pcp, red wolf, rifle, shooters
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Posted in Behind the Scenes
Talking shop: Keen’s Guns
Manager David Keen has worked at the shop for more than 30 years, and has seen it grow into one of the top hunting and fishing shops in Wales How did you get started and why? The business started in…
Tagged with: Airgun Shooter magazine, ammo, business, clothing, david keen, decoys, field target, fishing, fx impact, guns, keens guns, lamping, nets, night vision, pcp, rifles, scopes, shoot, shooting, shop, talking shop, target-shooting, traps
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, News
The only way is Pete’s!
Roger Laitruns through everything Pete’s Airgun Farm has to offer – you’ll need to grab a coffee and sit down to take it all in! The only way is Pete’s? Well it is in Essex, and I couldn’t think of…
A visit to Leigh 54-yard indoor range
Andy McLachlan discovers new skills and hand-crafted guns as he visits a popular range in the north of England
Tagged with: Bolton gun club, gun club, hand crafted guns, indoor shooting range, Leigh, North England shooting range
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Target Shooting
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Target Shooting
Behind the scenes: Handcrafted gunmakers
Andy McLachlan visits a Walsall workshop maintaining the traditions of crafting guns by hand – and starts planning how soon he can buy his own
Tagged with: air arms, air rifle, airgun, airgun magazine, airgun shooter, custom guns, gun makers, gunsmith, handcrafted, shotgun, shotguns
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Gear
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Gear
Interview: Scottish HFT shooter James Hesson
King of the North! Andy McLachlan asks Scottish shooter James Hesson about his choice of equipment and approach to hitting the target
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun shooter, airgun shooting, hft, james hesson, scottish hft, shotgun, target shooting
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Interviews, Target Shooting
Beer and Bullets?! Discover Bell Target Shooting!
One of the world’s oldest target disciplines involves shooting at an extremely short range – but at an extremely small bullseye. Simon Everett offers an insight into this traditional sport which has enjoyed a revival of late…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airgun shooter, beer and bullets, Bell Target, shooting clubs, short range shooting, social shooting, target shooting
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Target Shooting
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features, Target Shooting
Bootcamp! Daystate training
With the modern-day airgun becoming ever more complex, many airgun makers now provide dealers with a crash course on servicing and repairing their wares. We enrolled our own techie, Lyn Lewington on one such training session run by Daystate… While most guns featured…
Bottle testing – Hydrotech
The regulations surrounding the use of high-pressure vessels make testing for safety mandatory at periods determined by the use the pressure cylinder is put to. However, there’s enough ambiguity in the rules to confuse end users, charging stations and even…
Tagged with: air, airgun, buddy-bottle, cylinder, dive bottle, gauge, high-pressure vessels, HPVs, hydrostatic, Hydrotech, pcp, pressure, regulations, safety, testing, testing centre, valve
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
