WHO doesn’t love a leveraction rimfire? They’re fast, fun, cheap to shoot and just plain cute. They’re also hard to get these days, especially if you’re on a budget. Now the rising Turkish gun industry has stepped into the picture, though, and you can add the Derya TM22 LA-20 to the very short list of rifles in this popular but under-populated part of the market.
The TM22 is every bit as much fun as you’d expect but before we get into it, it’s worth looking briefly at who and what Derya Arms is.
Derya Arms has a threehectare factory in the Konya region of south-western Türkiye. It has a partnership with one of the nation’s largest defence businesses, Aselsan Konya, which is nearby. The Derya factory was established in 1998 and houses a swag of CNC machinery. The company has more than 250 employees, claims the capacity to produce almost half a million