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Back in the 70s, a business called Ultra-Hi released an inexpensive bb musket-like airgun! Ultra-Hi Products Co. Inc. to give them their full title was located in Hawthorne, New Jersey and with the 200-year Bi-Centenary of Independence upon the nation this unique little bb gun called the BB76 Pioneer was soon on sale.

In the late 80s PCP was expensive, elitist and because of cost, frightened most people away. But in only a few years prices dropped, with newer, lighter, and more affordable airguns appearing every year. In amongst the big manufacturers and tucked into quiet corners of the British countryside were other airgun innovators doing their own thing.

The British Shooting & Countryman Show is a brand new opportunity at the Event City in Manchester, for keen shooters and country enthusiasts to learn and experience even more.

It’s time to delve into the exciting world of Pneumatica Antiqua. It sounds like some rare disease and yes, once you catch it you can't stop thinking about antique airguns.

If you like old air pistols then you may well know the name Webley. Their shared pistol design is a spring chamber with a barrel riding piggyback. On release, the piston pushes the air towards the breech block then up and out into the barrel. Very odd - the air does a U turn. Webley decided to have a go at air rifles but strangely kept to this layout.

The best of the cards I’ve shot is pictured below, as are some other competitors cards, who agreed to let my father publish them. I’ve also asked my father if I could produce a table of the current leaderboard standings, and he’s happily provided me with this data and some photographs above of the competitors at one of the local airgun ranges.