This year’s IWA trade show in Nuremberg attracted huge numbers of visitors and exhibitors – and Mat Manning was there to see what all the excitement was about
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Show Report: Best new Airguns and gear at IWA
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Posted in Gear, News
Posted in Gear, News
Airguns and the EU
What might a post-referendum forecast be for the UK’s airgun industry? See what the airgun trade’s key players have to say before you cast your vote…
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Posted in Features
Posted in Features
‘Tis the Season to be Giving…
Want a big pressie to unwrap this Christmas? Here’s a selection of guns, gear and other goodies we reckon any airgunner would love Santa to leave under their tree… Purr-fect Hellcat If you’re after something short’n’sweet for your gun cabinet…
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Posted in Features
Head-to-head: Gamo Junior Hunter v Norica Thor GRS
Young airgunners are the lifeblood of tomorrow’s shooting sports. Mark Camoccio assesses two Spanish break-barrels that are designed to entice juniors into the fold
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Posted in Air Rifles, Gas-Ram, Springer, Tests
Posted in Air Rifles, Gas-Ram, Springer, Tests
Blitz it clean!
Here’s the BoreBlitz – an innovative new pull-through barrel-cleaning system with world patents pending that’s in a gun shop near you courtesy of distributors Highland Outdoors. Priced at £23.49, kits are available for .177 and .22 and include a zip-tie…
Tagged with: .177, .22, airgun, barrel-cleaning, BoreBlitz, breeches, cleaning strip, gun shop, highland outdoors, kit, lubricant, protectant oil, pull-through system
Posted in Accessories, Gear
Posted in Accessories, Gear
Going on duty
Denmark’s Action Sport Games – or ASG – have been uber-busy with the release of a duo of exciting new CO2-powered airgun models under licence to famous firearms brands. In gun shops courtesy of Highland Outdoors, first up is their…
Tagged with: .177 pellets, air pistols, asg, CO2 revolver, Dan Wesson, highland outdoors, revolver, steel BBs
Posted in Air Pistols, CO2
Posted in Air Pistols, CO2
Thick Rifleman
Highland Outdoors’ latest gunbag offering from Buffalo River has all bases covered, literally.
Different animals
Mark Camoccio pits together a duo of European break-barrel springers that fight hard in the sub-£250 price category…
Tagged with: Dragon Carbine, highland outdoors, norica, Stingray II, webley
Posted in Air Rifles, Springer, Tests
Posted in Air Rifles, Springer, Tests
County and Wesson: ASG Dan Wesson reviewed
With its resemblence to the outlawed BACS system, ASG’s Dan Wesson replica gets Phil Bulmer all nostalgic
Diana 280K and Norica Black Eagle
There are a number of reasons why I love spring-powered breakbarrels so much – and here are two of them. When Diana’s Model 280 was released back in 2010, I instantly fell in love with it; here was a traditional ‘breaker’ that…
Tagged with: 280k, black eagle, bushnell, diana, feinwebau, highland outdoors, mountmaster, nikko, norica, webley
Posted in Tests
Posted in Tests
