KEY SPECS
MAKER: Niksan
UK DISTRIBUTOR: The Shooting Party (shootingparty.uk)
MODEL: Archero-S
PRICE: £559
TYPE: Multi-shot PCP
CALIBRE: .177 (tested) and .22
ACTION: Sidelever
MAGAZINE: Two drum magazines
CAPACITY: 12 shots
OVERALL LENGTH: 103cm
BARREL: Shrouded, with ½″ UNF thread to fit moderator
WEIGHT: 3.6kg
STOCK: Synthetic sporter
SCOPE RAIL: Picatinny
LENGTH OF PULL: 365mm
TRIGGER: Two-stage, adjustable
TRIGGER-PULL: 3lb
SAFETY: Manual, resettable
MUZZLE ENERGY: 11.5ft-lb
ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Hard case and combined foregrip/bipod
Niksan Defence isn’t a name many airgun shooters in the UK will be too familiar with, but this company has been going for a very long time in its native Turkey. Niksan began as a small business in the 1970s, producing many types of hunting products, especially shotguns, as well as blank-firing signal pistols and fishing products. But now it makes multi-shot PCPs as well.
The current line-up, here in the UK thanks to The Shooting Party, includes the Elf, a bullpup available in either a walnut (Elf-W) or synthetic stock (Elf-S), the Ozark-W, a buddy bottle-fed rifle equipped with a walnut fore stock and a synthetic
