My first air pistol was a Webley Senior. I loved that pistol, but fitting a scope to it would never have crossed my mind. This was probably just as well, as the design would have made this virtually impossible! A laser sight slung under the cylinder perhaps, but lasers were only found in laboratories in those days. My shooting buddy had an Original Model 5 air pistol, for which we made a skeleton butt stock. If it had had provision for a scope, fitting one could have made sense.
In 1964, a radical new pistol was launched in the USA – the Remington XP-100. In effect, it was a cut-down rifle in a nylon stock. I read a review of this pistol at the time – it was chambered for the .221 Remington Fireball cartridge and fitted with a 2-4×20 Redfield scope. With hand-loaded cartridges, a certain Les Bowmen then shot a 0.72in group at 100 yards. For me,
