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Umarex team Member Eydin Hansen at the bench for the Pyramyd Cup, 2023

The centerpiece of modern airgun competition is benchrest shooting.  Why? The most likely explanation for this is the level of precision needed to be competitive and the elimination of as many variables as possible. In theor...

Winter is gonna winter. Here in the northern hemisphere that means cooler weather for all of us and some of us get blessed (blasted?) with the powdery precipitation more commonly called snow.

 

Over time there are gobs of premium features on items from cars to coffee makers to phones to refrigerators that have journeyed from luxury-big money status to standard equipment on the base model.  Finding a car that doesn’t have power windows or an automatic transmission is kinda hard these d...

I know, the band U2 is not everyone’s cup of tea, but New Year’s Day is quickly approaching. And every year for the past 15 or so years I have made it a tradition to blast this tune in whatever vehicle I happen to drive that day. The lyric, “nothing changes, on New Year’s Day” stands to remind me, yet again and forever, as the years go by, nothing ever really changes.

 

This happens sometimes.  That is something that people like and like for good reasons, goes out of stock. Sometimes this happens for ridiculously long periods of time. Case in point would be our Origin rifle kit.  

 

The Origin has lots of reasons to like it. The Origin is accurate, has a smo...

 

Recently one of our retail partners relayed a story to us about one of their customers.  Said customer came in and bought a full PCP set-up made up of a rifle, HPA compressor, ammo and optics.  He took this all home and... decided it wasn’t for him. He went back to the store to discuss with the...

 

Some years are just too much. 2024 has been one of those years. There has been so much white noise online, through television– everywhere. Even with the election in the rearview mirror, there’s still a troubling amount of noise and pressure threatening to sour the mood for what should be the mo...

 

2024 is winding down and quicker than I can perceive. My, how time does fly. 2025 will be here in no time and eventually it will be time for some airgun competitions.  In reality, there’s a good 7 months between “now” and “then”.  And in reality there will be plenty of projects, things to do, m...

 

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Here we are at the closing of another year. 2024 has been a weird one for sure. Nothing was normal, it seemed, from the weather to world events to popular culture– it’s been topsy-turvy to say the least. And it is drawing to a close.  One would be remiss ...

 

Some surprises are good and welcome. Others are not so welcome. For me and likely you, too, surprise expenses are always a downer. Just the other day I woke up to a flat battery in my truck. A “good” car battery these days is well north of $200.  Rats. Such is life. 

 

When it comes to air ri...