Airgun Shooter

FILL ‘ER UP!

ENHANCE your SHOOTING

Pre-charged pneumatic rifles are incredibly popular today and for many good reasons. PCPs offer recoilless firing that makes accurate shot placement much easier than it is with spring-piston guns, plus they’re close to being silent with the right moderator fitted. Furthermore, many, if not most, are multi-shot too, making them ideal hunting guns. However, they’re very complex, and in some ways delicate, so you all read the manufacturer’s instruction manuals carefully, didn’t you? “No, actually,” is the most common answer I get to that question. People say “well, it’s obvious, isn’t it?” when I ask how they fill their air reservoirs.

Let me share a few precautionary tales, taken from real-life conversations, to explain just how ‘obvious’ the filling process isn’t. You may well laugh at just how stupid people are, or think that I made these stories up, but I assure you that I did not.

KEEPING IT CLEAN

I always bang on about keeping all the filling components clean,

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