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Air guns are used for hunting (small to medium game), pest control, recreational shooting (commonly known as plinking) and competitive sports such as the Olympic 10 m air rifle and 10 m air pistol events. Field target (FT) is a competitive form of metallic silhouette shooting in which the targets are animal-shaped steel targets with a "kill ...
The 10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of 10 metres (11 yards), and that the match consists of a qualification round of 60 competition shots within 75 minutes.
This is a list of laws concerning air guns by country.. Most countries have laws about air guns, but these vary widely. Often each jurisdiction has its own unique definition of an air gun; and regulations may vary for weapons of different bore, muzzle energy or velocity, or material of ammunition, with guns designed to fire metal pellets often more tightly controlled than airsoft weapons.
German Sport Guns. Number of employees. 90 (2008) Parent. German Sport Guns. Website. www.diana-airguns.de. DIANA Mayer & Grammelspacher is an air gun manufacturer founded and based in Rastatt, Germany. The company, named after Diana, the mythological goddess of the hunt, is best known for producing quality air rifles.
First Daisy air rifle, built 1889 by Plymouth Iron Windmill Company, on display at the National BB Gun Museum in Branson, Missouri. Daisy Outdoor Products (known primarily as Daisy) is an American airgun manufacturer known particularly for their lines of BB guns. It was formed in 1882 initially as the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company in Plymouth ...
Baikal IZH-46M. The IZh-46M is a competition-grade, single-shot pneumatic air gun, with a hammer-forged, rifled barrel, designed for the 10 metre air pistol ISSF shooting events. The gun is charged with a single stroke of an underlever cocking arm. Unlike guns intended only for plinking, several features of competition guns such as the IZh-46M ...
Adjustable. The BSA Scorpion Air Pistol was an air pistol made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company and first produced in 1973. [1] It was a large, heavy, spring powered, single-shot weapon available in .177 (4.5 mm) and .22 (5.5 mm) calibers and was BSA's first air pistol. At 5.5 ft•lbf (7.5 J), it was close to the UK legal power limit for ...
Pellet (air gun) A range of "diabolo" pellets with various nose profiles. A pellet is a non-spherical projectile designed to be shot from an air gun, and an airgun that shoots such pellets is commonly known as a pellet gun. Air gun pellets differ from bullets and shot used in firearms in terms of the pressures encountered; airguns operate at ...