Zeiss have tweaked their Conquest V4 scopes to make them airgun-friendly, and Mat Manning reckons that’s great news for anyone seeking out a high-performance scope. Shooters with serious money to spend aren’t afraid to go the extra mile when it…
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Shooting advice: using a dot sight
Can you imagine a sighting system where you don’t have to worry about parallax or eye relief? Mike Morton can, and it’s called a dot sight Telescopic sights are the norm for most air rifles these days, whether they’re PCPs,…
Tagged with: air rifles, dot, dot sight, field, gas rams, hawke, laser, mike morton, parallax, pcp, scope, sight, sights, sporting, springers, telescopic, telescopic sight
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
Hawke Sidewinder FFP 4-16×50 review w/ Mike Morton
Mike Morton prepares to get knocked sideways by the FFP 4-16×50 – one of several innovative scopes in Hawke’s new Sidewinder range. Hawke recently refreshed its line-up of Sidewinder scopes, offering a series of brand new models. Any of these…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun shooters, centrefire, control, fac, ffp, focal plane, hawke sidewinder, hawke sidewinder review, holdover, Hunter, hunting, market, mike morton, optic, parallax, pellet, Range, rangefinding, rifle, scope, scopes, second focal plane, shooters, shooting, target, test, zero
Posted in Reviews
Posted in Reviews
Choosing the right airgun optics
Shooters have never had so much choice when it comes to optics, and Andy McLachlan explains how to pick what will work best for you. This Leupold has a small objective lens and is perfect for shooting HFT where optical…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airgun optics, airgunners, Airmax, Andy McLachlan, centrefire, fac, field, firearms, guns, hawke, hunting, optics, parallax, ranges, rifle, scope, scopes, shooter, shooters, Sport, Sportsmatch, Tasco
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
Springer vs PCP – which is better to start out with?
It’s the age-old question – should a beginner start out with a spring-powered rifle or a pre-charged pneumatic? Mike Morton goes lookingfor an argument. I’ve never actually seen anyone come to blows over it, but I’ve certainly witnessed some very…
Scopes for benchrest target shooting
Andy McLachlan’s in favour of scopes offering only modest levels of magnification for most of his shooting – but not benchrest! Andy picked up this fixed 45x Leupold from his son James, after James bought a high-end March scope for…
Tagged with: airgun, airgunners, Andy McLachlan, benchrest, ft scope, hawke, hunter field target, hunting, market, Optics Warehouse, parallax, Range, retailers, rifles, scope, scopes, shoot, shooting, target
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
MTC King Cobra review
Despite the current trend for diminutive optics, Mat Manning reckons that big can still be beautiful after putting the MTC King Cobra through its paces. Although super-compact scopes are very much in fashion at present, there are times when bigger…
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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
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Mike Morton’s top tips (29-20)
Welcome to the second of our weekly list of airgun top tips running throughout July! This week, Mike Morton is sharing 29-20 of our key tips month, with tricks and techniques to help raise your game and be top of…
Mike Morton reviews the Athlon Talos
The Athlon Talos BTR 4-14X44 FFP IR-MIL is a bit of a mouthful, so Mike Morton bites into this scope to see how it tastes Athlon Optics is a US company that’s not that well known here in the UK,…
Tagged with: airgun, athlon optics, athlon talos, btr 4-14xx4 ffp ir-mil, centrefire, crosshair, ffp scope, mike morton, parallax, rifle scope, shooting, telescopic
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