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 ...

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 ...

Bill designed a series of cartridges to shoot these projectiles that look no larger than a stout mouse dropping in cartridges ranging from reformed .22rimfire cases, necked down .25 pistol brass right ...

ATA of Turkey’s SP over & under (O/U) shotgun distributed by The Sportsman Gun Centre, has really taken the UK by storm, offering a competitive gun with great woodwork, given the price. The model ...

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 ...

When I speak to friends who are aficionados of the bolt-action service rifle, it’s invariably the .303 Short Magazine Lee Enfield that comes top of the list, closely followed by the Karabiner 98; ...

As a hunter, I always carry at least two knives; for gutting and skinning deer, I prefer a medium-length fixed blade, as it’s easier to clean, with no mechanism or anything else to go wrong. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...