Mike Morton loads up with QYS Pointed, and has to eat humble pie after finding a pellet that manages to dispel a life-long belief about their accuracy. I admit it. I’ve never been a fan of pointed pellets. This type…
hunting
Pellet test: QYS Pointed
Tagged with: ammo, Brocock, Diabolo, hft, hunting, mike morton, pellet, quarry, qys pointed, rifle, shooting, target, The Shooting Party
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Readers’ rifles
Airgun Shooter reader Andy Edwards tells us about two of his favourite guns, and why it’s good to take a break from PCPs once in a while. Here are two of mine. Though I stick to my precharged for hunting,…
Airgun Shooter Magazine 129 is out NOW
Christmas is coming, so there’s no better time to take a closer look at some of the very best airguns, optics and shooting accessories that have caught our eye over the past 12 months. Our Gear of the Year round-up…
Tagged with: air arms, airgun, airguns, Andy McLachlan, brocock concept lite, Christmas, field, gear of the year, hunting, mat manning, mike morton, night vision, optics, pcp, plinking, rifle, scope, shooting, target rifle, weihrauch hw98
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The Vulcan 2: A target rifle stock, but not as we know it
Andy McLachlan reaches for the stars and treks over to his gun shop to see if the hunting-focused Vulcan 2 can cut it as a target rifle I remember reading Mat Manning’s review of the Airgun Technology Vulcan 2 semi-bullpup…
Tagged with: accuracy, Airgun Technology, ammunition, Andy McLachlan, barrel, benchrest, Bullpup, competition, daystate red wolf, downrange, gun, gun shop, guns, hft, hunting, parallax, pellet, rifle, scope, semi-bullpup, shooter, shot, steyr sport lg, steyr sport lg 110, stock, target rifle, target-shooting
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Autumn Harvest
JDJ Braithwaite heads into the woodlands of the Lake District to soak up the autumn sunshine – and sort out a few grey squirrels The fells, hills and ancient woodlands of the Lake District have long been the source of…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airgunners, autumn, countryman, feeder, grey squirrels, hunting, lake district, method, oil, pellet, pulsar helion xp38, red squirrel, shoot, shooter, shot, trail camera, trigger, woodlands
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Less is more: GBSA nominated Rotex RM8 review
At next year’s second annual Great British Shooting Awards, you will get the chance to have your say and vote on the shortlist categories. One of the products that has been shortlisted is the Walther RM8 in the Airgun of…
Tagged with: affordable, air arms diabolo field, ammo, Bisley, gun, hunting, John Rothery Wholesale, mat manning, mount, pcp, Rotex RM8, scopes, shooting, ultra compact, umarex, varmint
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It’s time for the slug fest
Roger Lait continues his quest to find some airgun slugs that can shoot – and remain accurate – out to 100 yards and more. So here is part two of my Quest for Slugs. Sounds like a film, but not…
The Airgun Show – night vision rabbit hunt, PLUS Pellpax Rabbit Sniper MKII kit on test…
As the days get shorter, rabbits are becoming more and more nocturnal in their habit. After-dark hunting is one of the best ways to target bunnies at this time of year, and we follow Mat Manning on a late session…
Tagged with: airgun, airgun show, Christmas, field, hunt, hunting, night vision
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Rabbiting by Lamplight in this month’s Countryman
Mat Manning sets up with a scope-mounted flashlight and heads out into the night for some traditional rabbit lamping The ground I’m shooting over tonight is a mixed farm comprising several hundred acres of cattle grazing, cereal crops and pony…
Tagged with: countryman, countryside, field, flashlight, fx impact, gun, hunting, lamping, mat manning, optics, rabbit, rabbit shooting, rabbits, reload, rifle, scope, shooting, sidelever, stalking
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On the Bench with Mat Manning #3: Barrel changing tips for the FX
In this week’s edition of On the Bench, Mat is going to show you how to quickly and easily change the barrel, and therefore the calibre, on one of his favourite airguns of late, the FX Impact MKII. Since reviewing…
Tagged with: airgun shooter, airguns, barrel, barrel changing, calibre, FX, hunting, impact mk2, mat manning, on the bench
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