Sporting Shooter

Back To Basics With Airguns

OVER the last 12 years or so I’d been spoilt with the modern accuracy and power of a high quality PCP air rifle. My Air Arms S410 came complete with a 10 shot magazine and 200 BAR of pressure pushing those bolt fed pellets down the quality barrel with excellent accuracy. To make things easier it had little to no recoil which facilitated accurate groups even for an ordinary shot like me.

After thousands of pellets and years of use it began to leak air and eventually wouldn’t fill at all. With few competent gun smiths willing to work on a PCP air rifle in my area I simply moved onto other hunting pursuits and left the S410 in the gun safe.

Years later I lashed out and purchased a spring powered air rifle – a

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