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During the 1970s in the UK El Gamo marketed two air rifles, the Marksman, a conventional .22 rifle with a fitted and pre-zeroed telescopic sight, and the Paratrooper repeater, a .177 pistol-gripped repeating rifle incorporating a tubular magazine along the top of the cylinder, and using a rising/falling breech mechanism for positioning the pellet.
Used for both for scope mounts and for accessories (such as extra sling mounts, vertical grips, bipods, etc.). Major popularity in the civilian market. NATO Accessory Rail (STANAG 4694 rail), a further development from the MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail; Rail Integration System, generic term for a system for attaching accessories to small firearms
The rifle has a safety catch located in the trigger guard and is in safe mode when it is locked back and in fire mode when locked forward. The .22 (5.5mm) version has a muzzle velocity of 540 f/s (165 m/s); the .177 (4.5mm) has a muzzle velocity of 750 f/s (230~240 m/s).
A rail system mounted on top of a SIG SG 550 A dovetail rail on a rifle receiver for mounting a sight. A rail integration system (RIS; also called a rail accessory system (RAS), rail interface system, rail system, mount, base, gun rail, or simply a rail [1]) is a generic term for any standardized attachment system for mounting firearm accessories via bar-like straight brackets (i.e. "rails ...
The rifle was finished in blued steel barrel and action with gloss black paint on the alloy floorplate and trigger guard, the stocks were of wood. BSA no longer makes firearms, the BSA brand being confined to spring and precharged air weapons following acquisition by Gamo .
Among scopes for rail mounts, the 22.5-degree V-shaped Zeiss rail is the most prevalent standard. It was introduced in 1990. After the patent expired in 2008, compatible scopes have been offered from manufacturers such as Blaser, [1] Leica, Minox, Meopta, Nikon, [2] Noblex (formerly Docter [3]), Schmidt & Bender [4] and Steiner. [5]
The scope base is the attachment interface on the rifle's receiver, onto which the scope rings or scope mount are fixed. Early telescopic sights almost all have the rings that are fastened directly into tapped screw holes on the receiver, hence having no additional scope base other than the receiver top itself.
The BSA Supersport is an air rifle produced by BSA Guns (UK) Limited a subsidiary of Spanish manufacturer Gamo and was first introduced in 1986. [1] It is essentially the same rifle as the Lightning, the only difference being that the Lightning has the BSA Volumetric Silencer fitted. It is made in three calibres, 0.177 in (4.5 mm), 0.22 in (5.6 ...