Soldiers carrying the Lee-Enfield had a thorough Small Arms Training regime, and Mike Morton finds out if modern airgun shooters can pick up any tips. History, as I was told at school, isn’t just a record of what once happened.…
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Airgun shooting tips – learning from the past
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airgun shooter, gun, lee enfield, mike morton, shooting
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FX Impact M3 review w/ Mat Manning
The new FX Impact M3 has been designed to meet rocketing demand for versatile and easily tunable hardware – Mat Manning puts the Swedish supergun through its paces. The team behind FX Airguns has a remarkable talent for listening to…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airgun shooter, fx impact m3, gun, mat manning, shooting
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Posted in Reviews
Crow control w/ Mat Manning
Members of the crow family are among the airgun shooter’s most challenging adversaries – but can be outwitted as Mat Manning demonstrates during a testing hide session. Shooting always throws up unexpected surprises and that is certainly the case here.…
Tagged with: airgun shooter, corvid, crow, crow control, fac, gun, mat manning, shooting, test
Posted in Hunting
Posted in Hunting
Stoeger XM1 Multi-Shot PCP review w/ Mike Morton
Are you looking for function or form when you buy a rifle? With the Stoeger XM1 multi-shot PCP, Mike Morton believes you can have both. Just a few years ago it seemed that anyone wanting to get into recoilless shooting…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, bipod, gun, mike morton, multi shot, pcp, review, rifle, stoeger xm1
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Airgun springer: top tips to improve accuracy
Airgun springers can be challenging to shoot, but these tips will help you get on target Choose the right airgun springer for you It’s great to find a rifle you like the look of, but it’s even more important to…
Tagged with: accuracy, air rifle, airgun springer, grip, gun, pcp, pellet, shooting, target, target shooting, tips, underlever
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Posted in Features, How to
How to make a solid support for benchrest airgun shooting
Andy McLachlan runs through his options when it comes to shake-free shooting, and ends up using a high-end bipod for extra support. Here’s an example of a cheaper imitation Atlas bipod that’s been modified by Jim Edge to make it…
Tagged with: airgun shooting, Andy McLachlan, benchrest, bipod, competition, field, gun, gun mounting, guns, Leupold, long-range, Optics Warehouse, pellet, rifle, scope, shooter, shooting, shot, target
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
Buying your first airgun – Andy McLachlan on the first steps
Andy McLachlan coaches the newcomer through the first steps of airgun ownership, with the promise that good techniques will be rewarded. Air rifles can be works of art, like this HW95 Special Edition belonging to Andy’s friend Ian Jones, but…
Tagged with: airgun, airgun shooter, Andy McLachlan, gun, pcp, rifle, scope, shoot, shooting range, springer, target
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
Dependable airguns w/ Pete Brookes
What do the infantryman, armed response officer and airgun shooter have in common? A dependable gun that works well, argues Pete Brookes. Credit: David Jinks Despite having worked around firearms for most of my working life, I must come clean.…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun shooter, airguns, firearms, gun, hunting, pete brookes, target
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Short or zero eye relief scopes w/ Mike Morton
Short or zero eye relief scopes deliver a different experience to a conventional optic, so Mike Morton finds out what they have to offer. It was a daytime shoot around the farm, and while the intended quarry had been feral…
Tagged with: air rifle, bullpups, centrefire, eye relief, gun, handguns, mike morton, optic, pcp, picatinny, rifle, rimfires, scope, scope mounts, scopes, shoot, shooter, shooting, springer, target, telescopic sight
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Umarex Legends M1A1 Legendary review w/ Mike Morton
Mike Morton hits the garden range with the Legends M1A1 Legendary from Umarex – a BB blowback variant of the Thompson submachine gun. While it’s great to see CO2 guns that are created from the ground up, plenty of shooters…
