Mike Morton takes a look at the BSA Silver Star – a target rifle with a split personality that offers two very different ways to shoot. It’s no secret that competition shooters will perform at their best when their gun…
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Gun test: BSA Silver Star
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Posted in Features, Reviews
Posted in Features, Reviews
Gun test: Weihrauch’s HW100 BP
Weihrauch’s HW100 BP might be a late arrival to the bullpup party, but it still looks set to be the belle of the ball. Mat Manning puts the German maestro’s diminutive PCP to the test and concludes that it was…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, airguns, Bullpup, forend, gbsa, Great British Shooting Awards, gunmaker, guns, gunsmith, Hull Cartridge, mat manning, pcp, picatinny, scope, trigger, weihrauch hw100 bp
Posted in News, Reviews
Posted in News, Reviews
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
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Quick Shots: Streamlight WayPoint Spotlight
The Streamlight WayPoint Spotlight is pointing the way as a great tool for the nocturnal airgun hunter, as it can be used to scan wide areas. It’s useful at your car when prepping gear, or after the hunt when packing…
The unsupported kneeler
Andy McLachlan offers some advice to target shooters struggling with one awkward position encountered in a contest Dave Ramshead adopts the unsupported kneeling position, resting his leading arm on the top of his thigh We recently looked at the trickiest…
Tagged with: airgun, Andy McLachlan, competition, crosshairs, field target, hft, kneeler, position, shooters, shots, target, trigger
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
Gun test: Kral Puncher Jumbo
Big, bold and beautiful: Mike Morton gets his hands on the Kral Puncher Jumbo – a sidelever-operated multi-shot PCP that promises to punch above its weight We’re living in an airgun age when many manufacturers seem to be downsizing their…
Pigeon control in this month’s Countryman
In an effort to stop pigeons from decimating corn crops, Mat Manning sets up with hide and decoy tactics to pull in the birds Arable farming is a big industry in my locality, and farmers’ profits can take a serious…
Tagged with: air rifle, airgun, birds, BSA, bsa ultra, countryman, decoys, farmhouse, mat manning, pigeon, pigeon control, scope, shotgun, targeting, trigger, woodpigeons
Posted in Features, Hunting
Posted in Features, Hunting
Junior? Hi!
Ray Garner explains how a patent led to plinking perfection for Webley & Scott with the Junior model air pistol Johnstone and Fearn are names that are not exactly in the news these days. Swallowed whole by history, but in…
Tagged with: air pistol, birmingham, johnstone and fearn, Piston, ray garner, trigger, webley and scott, webley junior
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Posted in Reviews
SPONSORED: The new GLOCK 17 Gen5 is available from your local retailer NOW
The latest evolution in the GLOCK airguns range, introducing the fully licenced GLOCK 17 Gen5 by Umarex The Glock 17 Generation 5 is the latest addition to the GLOCK range. It features a list of improvements including a new pistol…
Serious benchrest choices
Some shooters prefer a bipod , but these ones are super heavy-duty Andy McLachlan gets serious about taking a rest, as his drive to become a master of the bench shifts up a gear Having finally started my ‘serious’ benchrest…
Tagged with: air rifles, Andy McLachlan, benchrest, bipod, crosshairs, forend, gun, hunting, pcp, rifle, shooting, target rifle, trigger
Posted in Target Shooting
Posted in Target Shooting
