Accessories

Richard Saunders on the role of dot sights

Posted on 11/06/2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

Richard Saunders takes a look at dot sights and asks – what role do they play for the airgun shooter? So, you’ve just bought your new rifle. What next? Why, a scope of course. But wait just a minute. Are…

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Super Test: Thermal Imagers

Posted on 18/04/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Richard Saunders gets hot, but not bothered as he tests four thermal imagers, including Pulsar Quantum Lite XQ23V, Seek Thermal Reveal XR, Leupold LTO-Tracker and Flir Scout TK Compact Monocular.

4 of the best tripod shooting rests

Posted on 10/03/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Richard Saunders gives it some stick as he tests four tripod shooting rests

Tagged with: air arms, air rifle, airgun, airgun shooter, Gun Test, hunting, review, shooting accessories, shooting rests, shooting sticks, tripods
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Bipod Test: Is the Javelin made to share?

Posted on 05/03/2018 by alicep — No Comments ↓

If you’ve got more than one PCP, can you really get by with just one bipod shared between them? Mike Morton gets down to earth with the Javelin to look for some answers

Tagged with: air arms, air rifle, airgun, airgun shooter, basc, bipod, hunting, Javelin, mike morton, pcp, Spartan
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6 Must-have airgun kit accessories

Posted on 10/11/2017 by alicep — No Comments ↓

We don’t know about you, but there are never enough accessories for our airguns, so to save you the trouble of scouring around the internet yourself we’ve rounded up essential pieces of kit to add to your ever growing list…

Tagged with: airgun shooting, armex, atom, ballistics, MTC Optics, mtc viper, PAO, Professional Airgun Optics, scopes, wii
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5 Shooting winter wardrobe essentials

Posted on 06/11/2017 by alicep — No Comments ↓

Dress for shooting success with these four winter warmers to help you to keep in tip-top condition for the season ahead. 1. Reversible Vest Price: £93 Outdoor clothing brand Pinewood has launched the reversible Red Deer vest in Realtree Xtra…

Tagged with: airgun apparel, airgun shooting, blaser, essentials, headlamp, jackets, shooting gear, smocks
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Perfect pistol scope

Posted on 10/09/2014 by Colin Fallon — 5 Comments ↓

Range-Right has relaunched its popular PAO 2×20 long eye-relief scope in response to growing demand for quality pistol scopes. Constructed from a single tube of aircraft-grade aluminium, the new scope is shock-, water- and fogproof, comes with a Duplex-type reticle,…

Tagged with: dovetails, finger-adjustable, fogproof, long eye-relief, mounts, PAO, picatinny, pistol, pistol scope, rails, Range-Right, reticle, scope, shockproof, turrets, waterproof, weaver
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Ratter light

Posted on 31/08/2014 by Colin Fallon — No Comments ↓

RUAG have just sent us the new Lightforce Pred3X tactical gunlight, which they’ve dubbed ‘The Ratter’. Priced at £126, inclusive of a neat presentation box and scope-mounting adaptor, the 180-gram unit is constructed from 6061 grade aluminium and emits a…

Tagged with: adaptor, cam-shut clamp, gunlight, Lightforce Pred3X, picatinny fit, ratter, scope mounting, tactical
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‘Best ever’ IdleBack Deal

Posted on 30/08/2014 by Colin Fallon — 1 Comment ↓

Apart from improving accuracy for hunting, plinking and zeroing up, an IdleBack makes shooting accessible to people who may otherwise struggle to use an airgun unsupported – and the hot news is that the famous IdleBack Shooting Chair is…

Tagged with: chair, hunting, idleback, idleback shooting chair, lowest price, plinking, shooting, unsupported, zeroing
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Ultimate mod

Posted on 29/08/2014 by Colin Fallon — No Comments ↓

Air Arms describes its new QTec silencer as ‘the world’s best’, even claiming that the high-performance suppressor is 7.5db quieter than the current market leader‘s thanks to the fluid dynamic technology used in its development! Calibre-specific (.177, .22 and…

Tagged with: .177, .22, .25, 1/2in UNF threads, air arms, barrels, moderator, noise reduction, QTec, rifles, silencer
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