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by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Tarzan! This weekend, a number of readers conducted a discussion of the fictional character Tarzan and the author who created him, Edgar Rice Burroughs. I thought you should all know an interesting connection of Tarzan to airguns. His grandson, J.R. Burroughs, was a big-time airgun importer in … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Today’s report is a guest blog from duskwight, our blog reader in Moscow. It’s a report of a test to determine if changing the power of a variable scope affects the potential for accuracy If you’d like to write a guest post for this blog, please email me. Over … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Not as pretty as I would like. This Diana 23 has led a hard life. I’ll refinish it. Today, we’ll return to an oldie we haven’t looked at in close to 2 months — the Diana 23. You may remember this is a … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Umarex Fusion CO2 rifle Today, we’ll test the Umarex Fusion CO2 rifle at 25 yards. And today was also supposed to be the day I tested how long you have to wait to remove the CO2 cap after exhausting the gas. … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Umarex Fusion CO2 rifle Today is the first accuracy test of the Umarex Fusion CO2 rifle. It comes one part late because we spent time looking at the CO2 cap, the adjustable trigger and the power adjuster in Part 3. The power adjuster … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This Diana 23 has led a hard life. Today, we’ll see how accurate the Diana model 23 is. This report was supposed to be published just before the Roanoke airgun show, but so many things popped up at the last minute and got in front … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Long-time readers know that I preach about buying commercial targets made with real target paper rather than making your own. Targets that are home-printed are usually worse than useless — they actually don’t tell you anything because of how badly the paper tears. Today, I have to amend that … Read more
