Airgun Shooter

FIELD TEST SAY HELLO TO A NEW OLD FRIEND

ENHANCE your SHOOTING

I’m often asked to give my recommendation for the best air rifle to people who are shopping for a hunting gun and I always tell them to buy a mid-weight, sporting pre-charged pneumatic (PCP). Why sporting? The answer is simple. They’re not perfect for any one thing, but they’re very good for everything. A welldesigned sporter will do well standing, sitting, prone, kneeling and all those weird, contorted positions we end up assuming in the real world of hunting. Target guns can be adjusted to be perfect for one position, but are then terrible for everything else!

Just such a gun is the Daystate Huntsman, a model that has been in production for decades and has been offered in many versions over the years, but at its heart has remained the same beast.

I have one that I shoot often, and always find it a pleasure to use. It’s a Huntsman Regal, which is a boltaction rifle, so when I saw that the Revere model had sprouted a sidelever, I was curious as to why Daystate had made that

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