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by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Walther’s LGV Challenger is an exciting new sporting breakbarrel springer. Wow! That’s my assessment from today’s test. Please read the explanation of how I arrived at that result. Today, I shot the .22-caliber Walther LGV Challenger air rifle at 25 yards with open … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Today, blog reader Paul Hudson shares his Theoben Crusader rifle with us. The Crusader is not as well-known in the U.S. as some other Theoben models, so this will be an interesting report. If you’d like to write a guest post for this blog, please email us. With its … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This Diana 25 smoothbore was made in World War II. One thing that I really like about this blog is the fact that it affords me the opportunity to test certain things thoroughly. In fact, it somewhat forces me to test them thoroughly; … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Walther’s LGV Challenger is an exciting new sporting breakbarrel springer. Today, I get to play with this wonderful new .22-caliber breakbarrel Walther LGV Challenger, and the experience was wonderful. Kevin — start thinking about a new gun! And Victor — stick around, because today you’re going to see … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Walther’s LGV Challenger is an exciting new sporting breakbarrel springer. Today, I’ll start looking at a new breakbarrel spring-piston air rifle that’s offered by Walther — the LGV. I saw the full range of these at the 2013 SHOT show and asked to test this one. For the record, … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Today, blog reader Vince continues the saga of converting a steel spring rifle to use a gas spring. We last read about this project in Part 2 of I’ve got gas, where he showed us the pitfalls of making such a conversion to a Gamo breakbarrel. Let’s see how … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This Diana 25 smoothbore was made during World War II. What a topic to follow a twist-rate report — one about a smoothbore! Today, we’ll look at the accuracy of the WW II-era Diana 25 smoothbore airgun. This is a play-day for me because this … Read more
