Voting closes on 13 January for the Great British Shooting Awards 2026, with winners decided by the shooting community ...

BSA Guns has launched the Meteor CLX, a new version of its Meteor air rifle which first appeared in 1959. According to BSA Guns, the original Meteor was the company’s first air rifle designed for use ...

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 ...

I’ve always appreciated fine engineering, be it guns, cars, motorbikes or even old Desoutter drills etc.; in fact, anything really, as long as it has been well designed, made and finished. My love of ...

For those who haven’t really been paying attention, it’s fair to say that Turkey has been producing an astonishing number of airgun manufacturers over the last few decades. Effecto is yet another ...

George Lincoln Jeffries, born in Norwich in 1847, became a renowned Birmingham gunmaker and played a key role in the early development of airguns. He produced numerous award-winning sporting rifles ...

I should have seen this coming. After setting a new standard for thermal performance with the oversized sensors in their 1024×768 Thermion 2 LRF XL50 riflescope and the 1280×1024 Merger LRF XT50 ...

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 ...

Imagine if you could spend a couple of hours honing your shooting skills, whether at the clay ground, or on a movingtarget range, whenever you wanted and wherever you were. Imagine too that you could ...

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 ...

While I doubt that there has ever been a survey carried out to determine Western shooters’ preferences – although it would be an interesting exercise – I would guess that there are more .44 revolver ...

I’ve reviewed nearly every rifle in the CZ 457 family, and the platform has become a true keystone in the rimfire market. The core action remains consistent, while barrel options, stock configurations ...