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GUN MAINTENANCE: KEEP IT CLEAN
Cleaning your gun needn't be a chore - especially if you follow Richard Atkins' easy 10-step guide Charity may begin at home - but cleaning doesn't, at least not when it comes to your shotgun. The process should begin soon after you have finished shooting and ... Read Full Article
GUN LUBRICANT: SLICK AND SMOOTH
VINCE BOTTOMLEY tries out the Microlon lubricant - but does it do everything it claims to achieve? I have before me a tiny bottle of blue liquid - a dry film lubricant. If you treat your rifle barrel in accordance with the instructions in the pack, it will improve ... Read Full Article
ON TEST: CLEAN UP YOUR ACT
JULES WHICKER sets to work with the VFG rifle cleaning system - and finds it leaves his gun in pristine condition SOME TIME ago I did a round-up of gun-cleaning accessories but, given the number of excellent products on the market, it was perhaps inevitable that ... Read Full Article
SCOPE MOUNTING GUIDE: ALL SCOPED UP PART TWO
Here's MARK CAMOCCIO with a basic guide to zeroing the scope THE TERM ‘zeroing' means to set the scope up so that the impact point of the projectile falls directly behind the main intersection of the scope's cross-hair or reticle. In other words: what you ... Read Full Article
PRODUCT TEST: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
It's claimed that the Dryfire training aid will improve your shooting. RICHARD ATKINS visits dealer Just Cartridges to put the system to the test THIS WAS not my first experience of the Dryfire concept, as I'd seen it demonstrated some years previously. It looked ... Read Full Article
PELLET SIZE: A SENSE OF PROPORTION
RODERICK MCCAFFERTY explains how pellets compare to the size of a pigeon or crow and how to calculate pellet proportional weight HAVE YOU heard the story about the lady who goes into the grocer and says "Four pounds of potatoes please?" The grocer replies, "Madam, ... Read Full Article
FACTORY VISIT: STYLE AND STRENGTH
RICHARD ATKINS visits the Fabarm factory in Brescia to see how this Italian maker has developed its product line ANYONE WHO has spent time looking at the lines of guns in a few well-stocked gunshops will have noticed that Italy is now the nation at the forefront ... Read Full Article
FACTORY VISIT: ABSOLUTE PRECISION
RPA has gone from strength to strength since its beginnings as a two-man band in 1970. RICHARD ATKINS paid its new factory a visit IN EARLY 1970 George Swenson set his dream of producing a target rifle specific action into reality, initially with the help of ... Read Full Article
SPECIAL REPORT: LONDON CALLING
MICK GAULT OBE reports from a very special award ceremony in Buckingham Palace IT ALL started in mid-November. I was off work with a bad case of man flu when the post arrived and I noticed a letter from Downing Street. ‘What the hell have I done now?' I ... Read Full Article
FACTORY VISIT: BUY BRITISH
Pete Wadeson says that when it comes to gun cabinets it's worth paying a little extra for quality British design and build - and finds both at Brattonsound's Surrey factory YOU'D BE forgiven for thinking that one gun cabinet is much like another - but is this ... Read Full Article
FACTORY VISIT: A PASSION FOR PERFECTION
MARK CAMOCCIO meets the man behind the radically different Phoenix MKII AN IMPORTANT aspect of the fascination that air rifles hold for me is the sheer ingenuity of many designs. The humble spring piston blueprint may have been with us for generations, but consider ... Read Full Article
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