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As the record breaking wet and windy abysmal summer weather drives us off our land and permissions, my son and I look for something else to do, something shooting related, and an activity that will keep us dry yet allow us to enjoy the outdoors comfortably.   We’ve been regular attendees at our local sheltered indoor and outdoor shooting ranges for a few years now, and whilst there we find shooting the same old spinners time and time again quite tedious and boring, we enjoy the opportunity all the same. When we think club however, we also think something else, something a

[Music]   Part three - the penultimate episode. So last week we tackled the barrel, action, and this week we're gonna be tackling the wood. The love-hate relationship with this gun is definitely swinging in the balance towards hate - I'm not entirely sure whether this week's gonna change any of that. Anyway, enough talking, to the bench!    [Music]   So before we start on the wood I'm actually putting some of the metal bits back in place so that we do sort of finish them together or else you end up with that really awful wood to metal fit, but to be honest you’d completely

Next to BSA's break barrel Meteor and better Mercury was the tap loading Airsporter; a fixed barrel underlever with many versions or marks released over the decades. Like the Mercury, this had the trademark alloy Back Block - a sloping trigger block with integral swept back trigger guard and a short under lever finishing flush with the stock, gave the Airsporter a unique sporty firearm profile. This and the Mercury got posher versions in walnut with some minor improvements, then later in 1982 a special edition was released celebrating the company or more correctly it's Piled Arms logo. This was