by B.B. Pelletier On October 18, we learned about the Farco shotgun from the Philippines. In this second look at air shotguns, we’ll examine a gun that was so powerful that it spawned a whole line of air rifles for its maker. The Fire 201…

by B.B. Pelletier This post is an answer to two comments received last week: Will said, “I’ve been waffling between a Sheridan Blue/Silver streak vs a Benjamin 392 for getting rid of pesky rabbits as my first air rifle. I prefer the .22 over the…

Is parallax real?Parallax. What the heck is it, and why should you care? Many of the better airgun scopes have parallax adjustments, but nobody explains what parallax is or why it’s so important. Is it real, or just something made up to sell costlier scopes?…

by B.B. Pelletier Yesterday I made a comment about a longer barrel being more efficient with air in a precharged airgun and that got me thinking. I have danced around this subject but today I’ll tackle it head-on. What is the difference between a short…

by B.B. Pelletier Today’s strange airgun sold in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A batch of them must have gone unsold, because they reappeared new-in-the-box at airgun shows in the mid-1990s. You can still find one or two at airgun shows, but the piles…

by B.B. Pelletier Today, I’m delivering on a promise I made some time back, that I would publish an index of the past postings. This is it. There may be a wonderfully easy way to do this, but I haven’t found it. I’ll probably do…

by B.B. Pelletier Today I answer a question that came in last Sunday: Posting late…hope you still check your blog. What kind of velocity do you get with various balls, pellets out of the 909 44? The site lists 720fps but I am interested in…