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by B.B. Pelletier Here is a video you can’t get from The History Channel. When I was young, in the 1950s, the only airguns I knew about were Daisys, Crosmans, Benjamins and Sheridans. There were no airgun magazines at that time, and the gun magazines seldom ran an article about airguns that didn’t have the … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1Part 2Part 3 Sorry, my friends, but the Beretta CX-4 Storm that I scheduled to blog today has been delayed. It will be a couple more weeks before I can get to it. Today, I’ll conclude the Remington Genesis report. I told you how well the Gamo Tomahawks shot compared to … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1Part 2 Well, Part 2 of the Remington Genesis report was completed on June 19, 2006, so this report has been some time in coming. I’d like to tell you I have been diligently shooting the gun all that time, but the truth is – I completely forgot about it! Several … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier This is a story about a firearm I recently bought, and I want to use it to explain my motivation when I test airguns for you. I hope you will look past the firearm aspect of the story and try to put yourself in my shoes, because that is what I am … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Well, well! There’s lots of interest in this subject, and some of you have already made some observations of your own. Apparently, many people know that all pellets and bullets leak gas/air. We left off with a discussion about thin-skirted pellets made from soft lead (which I often refer to … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier An anonymous reader asked how to determine if a pellet fits well in the bore of an air rifle, and also if there’s a lot of air blowby. Today, I’ll discuss this and also, for those who can watch videos, I’ll point you to a very revealing website where you can watch … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier From the questions that have come in over the past six months, I believe many of you would like to start evaluating your airguns on a more precise basis, so today I’m going to look at some of the tools and test equipment I use to evaluate airguns. ChronographSay the word airgun, … Read more
