Vintage

Classic gun spotlight: Feinwerkbau Sport 124/127

Posted on 31/05/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

There was a time when Weihrauch’s HW 80 and HW 35 reigned supreme – but, as Richard Saunders points out, they weren’t the only game in town

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Classic Gun Spotlight: QB78

Posted on 14/05/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Gas guns came of age with the release of the iconic QB78, says Jonathan Young

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Classic Gun Spotlight: Cobra Strike Magnum

Posted on 07/05/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Jonathan Young gets his teeth into the Cobra Strike Magnum, which was once hailed in the adverts of the day as “Britain’s only .25 calibre air rifle”

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Classic Gun Spotlight: Fantastic Feinwerkbau

Posted on 01/05/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

The Feinwerkbau Sport, dating from the 1970s, is widely recognised for delivering engineering quality and accuracy, says Andy McLachlan

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Classic Gun Spotlight: Titan JB1

Posted on 23/04/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

The 1980s phenomenon of the single-stroke pneumatic gave us the weirdest and most useful airgun in the Titan JB1, says Jonathan Young

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Classic Gun Spotlight: Stutzen Rb2

Posted on 15/04/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Fabled beauty: Classic BSA springers from the 1990s are thin on the ground, with some now very rare – like the near-mythical Stutzen Rb2, says Jonathan Young

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Classic Gun Spotlight: The Weihrauch HW 80

Posted on 04/04/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

If ever there was a spring-powered rifle that raised the performance bar following its introduction, the Weihrauch HW 80 would be it, says Andy McLachlan

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Super test: Historical handguns

Posted on 18/01/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Jonathan Young remembers a lifetime of 1970s war movies and gets all misty-eyed over the new breed of wartime CO2 BB pistols. Which BB gun brings back the most memories?