Airgun Shooter

There are times when shooting from a hide or setting up an ambush off a bipod are the perfect way to bag your quarry – but there are plenty of other occasions when you’ll need to stay mobile and go on a roving hunt. And it’s at times like these that

Talking to a farmer recently, he lamented the disappearance of ground-nesting birds since his youth. He put this down to badgers – what he refers to as ‘black and white hoovers’ that wander around the farm eating anything and everything. Since the 1

A leading UK pest control supply company is opening its training courses to a wider audience after many professionals were left confused following the changes to the general licences surrounding the control of pest birds. The training courses offere

How did you get started and why? The business started in 1978 selling mostly fishing tackle out of a garage, together with a few guns. I started working here 34 years ago. As I used to shoot, I was keen to expand our range of shooting products we so

I got my first air rifle when I was 15. It was a wonderful package deal consisting of a Theoben Rapid 7 with a skeleton stock, Simmons Whitetail Classic scope and stirrup pump. I still remember the anticipation of unpacking it and the excitement of f

Rifleman Firearms also held a sponsored shoot called the Air Rifle Sharpshooter 2019 Competition, but this time being comprised of three very different disciplines. Twenty contestants took part overall, with the highest five from each stage being sco

Rats are a constant cause of irritation on most farms. Attracted by an abundance of easy food and plenty of snug places to nest, populations quickly establish and can soon get out of hand. Problems posed by rats are numerous, and the worst one is th

The first two rounds of the 2019 UK premier national HFT event, the UKAHFT series, have already proved to be an interesting combination of some new names and faces featuring at the top of the current leaderboard. North West shooter and regular Welsh

Having finally started my ‘serious’ benchrest shooting campaign, I thought it might be interesting to look at a couple of the rests that some of the experienced shooters at my club use for competition purposes. Why do we need an expensive item of ad

Much has been written by both myself and many others over the years regarding how best to prepare ourselves for that most dreaded of outdoor airgunning shots, the ‘positional’. Positional shots require the shooter to forgo the normal HFT prone shot

We came, we saw, we sadly did not conquer – but what a brilliant time we all had. As ever, the travel to and from Poland was fantastic and easy as pie. Lots of people don’t think it’s easy taking airguns through airports, but I am here to say otherwi

Getting a new airgun can be a bit like starting a new romance. There’s that massive hormonal rush right at the start that creates a whirlpool of adrenaline and excitement. Sometimes that feeling lasts. But sometimes it doesn’t. As we progress with o

S o how much is too much power for an airgun? Do you need 50 foot pounds and upwards? Why not just 12 foot pounds and be done with it? And what about both perhaps? Well I’m lucky. I have the new Daystate Red Wolf HP (High Power) in .22, and boy does

Some shooters I know who like to think of themselves as ‘serious airgunners’ dismiss plinking as a childish pastime. But they’re missing the point. To my mind, airgunning is 99% fun, and what can be more fun than a couple of hours tin can bashing in

Every time I open my gun cabinet to go hunting, I gaze nostalgically at my 1983 Weihrauch HW 80 Mk1 and then reach for one of my PCP rifles. It sits there like an old favourite at the bottom of a kid’s toy box, forever ignored and unable to compete w

STRUGGLING with a scope? Having hassles with your hunting? Well, don’t despair because you’ve arrived at the right place to discover remedies for your airgun anxieties! Whether you’re looking for a quick fix to a nagging problem or simply want advice

What are they? A safety flag, which is sometimes referred to as a breech flag, is a device that lets other shooters know that a particular airgun is in a safe state, meaning the gun is incapable of firing a pellet. What constitutes ‘safe’ is a moot

Limited edition airguns from British gunmaker Daystate always cause a lot of excitement, and many are snaffled up through pre-orders before they’re even made. Coming up with innovative and eye-catching specials to keep the collectors happy can’t be

Qiang Yuan Sports made a big impact on the airgun scene in the UK last year with its Domed pellets, and has now released a new design called the Streamlined. But what’s different about them – and more importantly, are they any good? While these two

Spartan is best known for its Javelin bipods that can be attached to a rifle with a magnetic coupling, but the company has now given shooters the ability to use the same quick attach/ detach system for a whole range of shooting sticks or tripods. Th

I’m willing to bet that for most of us our passion for airguns began in the garden, sending tin cans, bottle tops and all manner of improvised targets flying. That was certainly the case for me. The very first gun I shot was a friend’s Gat gun, firi

Mention the word ‘Luger’, and most people will automatically think of this handgun being brandished by a jackboot and jodhpur-wearing German officer from the Second World War. But the P.08, also known as the Pistole Parabellum, Parabellum-Pistole (Pi

Bullpups have been around for a good many years, and while some airgun shooters initially branded them a fad that would never last, these stubby little rifles are resolutely here to stay. Most manufacturers have at least one bullpup in their inventor

Johnstone and Fearn are names that are not exactly in the news these days. Swallowed whole by history, but in a way still with us, these two Birmingham men endure through Patent Number 219872. Their cleverness ensured that today we have one of the mo