The Westy tray is a popular innovation with PCP shooters. Simon Everett meets the man who invented it, and goes behind the scenes to see some more bespoke work carried out at the new airgun engineering venture that is Smooth Shooting…
Behind the Scenes
Family Fortunes
It’s one of the shooting industry’s biggest success stories in recent years, turning its initial concept of a shooting seat into a huge retail outlet. So Simon Everett sets his sat-nav to Rotherham… and goes behind the scenes at IdleBack
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Rising giant
From LGV to XTC, Armex is a distributor with a lot of airguns on its hands – Colin Fallon goes behind the scenes for a closer look at the inner workings of this UK distribution giant…
Tagged with: armex, behind the scenes, colin fallon, distribution, lgv, umarex, walther
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
Stock in trade
Simon Everett gets an audience with Don Robinson, stockmaker – a self-taught craftsman from Halifax who’s been making or embellishing airgun stocks for around half a century….
Tagged with: BSA, don robinson, george bush, george washington, halifax, nra, simon everette stock maker, supersport, usa
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
Young apprentice: Busy period
Airgun Shooter is following young Charlie Crane as he and his airgun are mentored in the art of gamekeeping. This month, we follow the young student at the time of year his mentor thinks is the busiest for those in the profession…
Tagged with: charlie crane, gamekeeping, student, training, young apprentice
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
In the workshop
In this month’s issue, Lyn Lewington shows you how to strip the popular HW99S lightweight break-barrel from Weihrauch
Tagged with: gunsmith, hw99, lyn lewington, strip, weihrauch, workshop
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
Young apprentice
Airgun Shooter is following young Charlie Crane as he and his airgun are mentored in the art of gamekeeping. This month, the young student is asked to give an account of himself – specifically on his choice of hunting distances…
Tagged with: apprentice, charlie crane, rats, sparshol, target shooting, training
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
Boy wonder
The rise in the number of youngsters taking up HFT bodes well for airgunning’s future – with Harry Fallows foremost among the emerging talent…
Tagged with: airgunning, bushnell tactical, daystate mk4, harry fallows, hunter field target, maldon and district, MPR, mtc viper, sightron, steyr lg110, young shooters
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
In the workshop
Index linked
Simon Everett goes behind the scenes of an engineering company that specialises in high-precision performance car parts and military ballistics testing equipment… to find out why they’re also making a name for themselves in airgun circles.
Tagged with: airgun, BSA, bsa super ten, daystate, engineering, index linked, pneumatic ballistics, simon everett, super ten, theoben rapid, yamaha
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Features
