It’s no secret that BSA shares the same owners as Spanish-based Gamo and has done so for a while now. At some stage, a commercial decision was taken to produce all spring-powered and gas-ram models in ...

This Anvil modified Remington is one of the latest in the line of “conversion” revolvers which allow standard black powder pistols to use smokeless powder with a newly manufactured and proofed ...

The Walther CP88, on test here, is something of a landmark model for Umarex, since it was the first pellet-firing CO2 pistol made by them. I’m no fan of BBs, mainly because they are never particularly ...

Tracing its influence back to the postwar M48 tank, when it appeared in 1960 few realised how important the M60 tank would become to so many countries around the world. The M60 was produced between ...

Dagenham, Essex; now there’s a name that conjures up one thing - Ford cars; well think again, as not far from the old Ford plant was a company called Sterling. To us shooters that means the British ...

Good trigger control is vital to accuracy, particularly when using a spring-powered recoiling airgun. In relation to that statement, if there’s one area/part that ‘can’ be bettered to suit individual ...

The HW35 was my first air rifle and will probably be my last! Like me, it’s a bit long in the tooth, showing its age but when push comes to shove, is still capable of providing a good hunting ...

With a range of three new scopes; the most expensive being just £665, Zeiss seems to have hit the ground running with their new Duralyt series. The concept mirrors Kahles Optik, which I looked at last ...

The advent of smokeless propellants, at the turn of the previous century, saw a flood of new or ‘redeveloped’ calibres from the commercial cartridge manufacturers of the day, and none more so than ...

The .32 Winchester SL (self-loading) was launched in 1906, together with a chambering in the Winchester Model 1905 Self Loading Rifle; it was a semirimmed, straight walled design running on smokeless ...

Many weapons acquire nicknames given by the soldiers who use them. Mostly these are humorous familiarities, but in some cases, the term can be derogatory, such as the German army’s 3.7cm Pak 36 ...

Weihrauch are certainly one of those manufacturers that has a firm foothold in pretty well every division of airgunning. Be it beginners lightweight starter set-ups through all types of spring gun up ...