Among the various rabbit holes that you can go down when it comes to punching holes with things that have triggers, lies an often underrecognized tool – the humble PCP air rifle. Benjamin Airguns has been in the business of producing high-quality airguns for [Read More…]
After moving out from behind enemy lines years ago, my first act was to divest myself of my high-end air guns and stock up on NFA items like suppressors. It was a wonderful feeling. But every so often I get the urge to pick up a new FX or Daystate PCP .25 caliber rifle. [Read More…]
SIG Sauer’s air weapons division, SIG AIR, continues to expand introducing a new PCP or Pre-Charged Pneumatic air rifle based on their MCX Virtus range of rifles. The new MCX Virtus based rifle has a PCP reservoir making up its butt and feeds from the SIG Rapid [Read More…]
Umarex has taken their Gauntlet and re-worked it into another caliber for consumers to play with! Now you can get the Gauntlet Pre-Charged Pneumatic (PCP) Air Rifle in .25 Caliber for your recreation, hunting, or league shooting fun. While this rifle is extremely [Read More…]
A confidential source has revealed to TFB the current contestants that have passed the most recent phase of the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle Competition (NGSAR). This phase is less of an actual competition between small arms prototypes but more of a theoretical [Read More…]
Texas company True Velocity, LLC, has released the first images of their advanced lightweight polymer composite cased ammunition design via Instagram. Training company BAT Defense sent out an image of what appear to be 12.7×108, .50 BMG, and 5.56mm rounds made by [Read More…]
Even if you have zero interest in airguns, you could still spend an entire evening watching the Ted’s Holdover YouTube channel and not get bored. Not only that, but you might also learn a lot about range estimation, bullet drop and windage adjustment from watching [Read More…]
On March 25th, 2014 I posted the results of an ammunition test on The Firearm Blog that can be read here. The ammo exploded, did damage to equipment, and well could have done damage to the shooters had I not taken precautions. Some photo highlights… See the magazine spring in the top left? [Read More…]
A strong US Dollar is starting to show its benefits for US buyers: foreign manufacturers are starting to drop prices as the dollar is able to purchase more product. The first to go widely public with their new pricing structure is AirForce, a manufacturer of Pre-Charged [Read More…]
Crossman airguns have released the Armada PCP air rifle with a special edition Multicam edition currently being auctioned on GunBroker ending November 2nd benefiting the Navy Seal foundation. Other sponsors of the air rifle include Zeiss, Surefire, Tarjac, and MagPul. [Read More…]
Yes, ammo is coming back in stock at reasonable prices, but sometimes a product just catches my eye. The product this time is the Crosman MAR177 PCP conversion kit, which transforms your AR into a Pre-Charged Pneumatic air rifle. The “Modular Adaptive [Read More…]
Before you, dear readers, bemoan the fact that we are reviewing air rifles, please allow me to mention that this air rifle (yes, “rifle”) can output over 85% of the energy compared to 22LR and the ammo costs less than 5 cents a shot. Got your attention? So, [Read More…]
The folks at Lukcygunner have reviewed the new PCP Polymer-Cased .308 Win. ammunition. The idiom “Damned by faint praise” comes to mind. The company is marketing this as a premium brand and it needs to shoot like a premium brand. Civilians are less [Read More…]
PCP’s polymer cased .308 Win. ammunition is finally in limited production. I have been waiting for this to come to market for a long time. Previous polymer cased ammunition suffered a number of problems and so I am looking forward to test this ammunition developed [Read More…]
At SHOT Crosman unveiled two new PCP air rifles: the Challenger 2009 and the Benjamin PCP Marauder. The Challenger 2009 is an upgrade of the Challenger 2000 and is designed for three-position air rifle competition. The new challenger features a fully adjustable, match [Read More…]
Scott Pilkington, who owns Pilkington Competition Equip. LLC, has invented an AR-15 PCP air gun upper. The BF-17 is powered by CO2 with a gas is tank is inside the handguard. Interestingly enough the upper is a real A2 upper that they then modify and fit the air gun [Read More…]
I came across a Russian firm called DAC / Demyan who manufacture a bullpup conversion of their T-4 Carbine PCP bolt action rotary magazine repeating air gun. T-4 Bullpup T-4 Carbine The conversion to a bullpup configuration is straight forward. Initially I was confused [Read More…]
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