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The surprising Ruger Talon
I mentioned a while back that I had been shooting some inexpensive – sub-$200, Tier One – air rifles, and today I’d like to share some of my experience with another one of these highly affordable air...
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Umarex Octane – Hits hard, shoots quieter
The Umarex Octane looks a bit unusual but feels great in the hand. Over a decade ago, when I was just starting to write about adult precision airguns, a guru in the field told me a thing: “If you want...
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LGV Master in .22
The LGV Master is a handsome air rifle. The Walther LGV was created as a kind of modern tribute to the legendary Walther LGV match rifle that was introduced in 1964. The goal in creating the new LGV,...
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LGV Challenger in .177
In this week’s blog, we’ll take a look at another in the Walther LGC line of air rifles, the LGV Challenger. As I have written elsewhere, the LGV was a project conceived in 2010 at Umarex in Germany...
View ArticleAirguns 101 – the Basics: Airgun Maintenance 101 – Part I
No matter whether your pride-and-joy is a springer or a precharged pneumatic, CO2 powered or a multi-stroke pneumatic, the very first thing you want to do –before you shoot it for the first time – is...
View ArticleAirguns 101 – the Basics: Airgun Maintenance 101 – Part II
Routine Maintenance To be honest, the jury is still out on routine barrel cleaning for airguns. Many top-notch shooters only clean their barrels when they notice a decrease in accuracy. If you simply...
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The Tale of a Smoking Gun…A Springer Story
You don’t see it talked about much in the airgun forums, but many spring-piston air rifles and air pistols – springers – actually burn some of the lubricants in their compression cylinders during the...
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A fancy bit of pistol work
“Varmint cong” at work at El Rancho Elliott. They are undeniably cute, but they can be very destructive. Sometimes the subject for a blog comes from the strangest places. My wife and I were on an...
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FWB Sport – A classic reborn – Part I
It’s been more than a decade, and I hope that I am recalling this correctly, but I seem to recall reading in print that it was a Feinwerkbau (FWB) 124 or 127 that first opened the eyes of Tom Gaylord...
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FWB Sport – A classic reborn – Part II
There is one thing on the FWB Sport that is a bit unusual: on the dovetails on top of the receiver, there are no holes for anti-recoil pins on a scope mount. Instead there are four horizontal grooves...
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