Monday, September 24, 2012
The first quality air pistol I owned, back in the 1980s, was a Daisy 717. I paid around $40 for it back then, which wasn’t much, although it did strain my grad student budget. It was astoundingly accurate for a budget gun, and was actually used by many in serious competition. Bullseye pistol legend Don [...]
If you’re a fan of James Bond, you immediately recognize this as the gun that Q supplied Bond with after taking away his tiny Beretta .25 auto- a “lady’s gun,” Q called it. (I don’t think Ian Fleming could get away with that line today!) The Walther PPK is a timeless design, and the progenitor [...]
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Crosman has just announced a big bore version of the microcomputer controlled Rogue PCP rifle. The big news is that it’s in .357 or 9mm caliber. This turns the Rogue into a real hunting rifle, with muzzle energies of between 180 and 280 foot-pounds. This may not seem like a lot, but it’s .38 special [...]
The Crosman 1077 is, as the name suggests, a pellet gun designed to resemble the very popular Ruger 10/22 rifle. The resemblance is more than just skin deep, as the Crosman rifle also has an easily changed rotary magazine, although the Crosman’s holds 12 pellets to the Ruger’s 10 cartridges. It’s inexpensive, usually selling for [...]
