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These days, it’s fairly commonplace for products to begin to resemble one another, with unimaginative companies just bringing out their own version of an accepted design brief. An obvious example is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 test focuses on a gun made in Turkey – a country rapidly establishing itself as a major manufacturer of firearms. The Turks today appear to be in much the same position as the Spaniards and ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

Singling out a high goose or a fast flying duck cleanly from the sky can take some doing. Equally, given the fact that you can only use non-toxic loads and that they rather need to be of the Magnum ...

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 ...

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 ...