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Here are some useful links.  The list of retailers is not exhaustive so you should shop around as you may find what you're after is on offer somewhere else.  As always, never buy a rifle or scope before taking advice from the club to make sure it'll do exactly what you want it to and ideally not until you've seen one in the flesh.  The fit and balance of a rifle is quite personal and you should always try before you buy.  SBFTC does not recommend these retailers over any other.  The VCR bill introduced on October 1st 2008 prohibits the sale of air rifles, air pistols and some accessories by mail order unless they are delivered to a registered fire arms dealer which now limits your choice of supplier unless you are prepared to travel and conduct the purchase in the shop.  The respective web sites should indicate which items are prohibited.

A word of caution when viewing the Airgun Forum and BBS sites.  They both contain lot's of really helpful, useful and interesting information, but they also contain some misinformed, incorrect, and potentially dangerous threads as well.  The moderators do a good job, but they're only human and dodgy posts may be up for a while before they're removed.  If you're tempted to do a modification you've read about on a forum, always take advice at the club first.

 

Retailers

AirAmmo UK importer and on line retailer of JSB Pellets

Blackpool Air Rifles On line retailer

Chichester Armoury Located in Chichester unsurprisingly

CH Westons Located in Brighton

Greenfields Mainly shotguns but some air rifles.  Good selection of clothing. Located in Salisbury

Opticswarehouse On line retailer of optical equipment including scopes.  A bigger range of quality optics than most retailers at good prices.  They also stock rifles and other accessories.

Portsmouth Gun Centre

TAL Arms Located in Christchurch

Target Sports On line retailer

Uttings.com On line retailer

Yo-Yo Divers Where I get my divers tank filled

 

Manufacturers

Air Arms Rifles

Anschutz Rifles

Bushnell Scopes

Combro Chronographs that everyone should own

Daystate Rifles

Feinwerkbau Rifles

JSB Pellets

Leupold Scopes

Nightforce Scopes

Nockover targets The original and best targets for FT and HFT.  Nothing else comes close, we've tried others but these are the best by far.  Reliable, with no sticking they fall over if you hit them, stay up if you don't time after time and will take years of abuse.  Although there are some slightly cheaper targets about, you'll spend a lot of time arguing if it's not a Nockover.  These are the only targets we recommend for competition.

Skan Chronographs

Steyr Rifles

Walther Rifles

Weihrauch Rifles

Whiscombe Rifles Probably the finest spring rifles in the world

 

Clubs, associations and other useful links

AirGunForum Bulletin Board Official forum of the BFTA

Airgun BBS On line forum

BARPC Basingstoke Air Rifle and Pistol Club

BASC British Association for Shooting and Conservation

Bell targets  A history of what is probably the first competitive air rifle shooting

Bisley Field Target Organisation Probably the worlds most famous FT club

British Field Target Association (BFTA) The UK governing body for FT

Christchurch Gun Club Located near Bournemouth

CSFTA Central Southern Field Target Association

ETL FTC Located in Essex

Fareham RPC One of the countries top 10m rifle clubs.  They also shoot rimfire and black powder

Ford Ranges Near Yapton in Sussex

JBM Trajectory calculator Works out your pellet drop and more.  Use a BC of 0.023 for .177 and 0.032 for 0.22.  Incredibly accurate!

MVAC Meon Valley Air rifle Club near Petersfield

National Rifle Association

National Small-bore Rifle Association

New Zealand Airgunners Forum

North East Field Target Association (NEFTA) A very active BFTA region with some excellent technical documents in their resource section.  Highly recommended despite the fact they're Northeners!

North Oxon FTC Located north of Bicester

PlusNet Our ISP.  Good internet speeds but email sucks recently.  This is why it takes a while for us to respond.

Polish Field Target Association Hosts of the 2006 World Field Target Federation championship.

Rough Wedge Air rifle club based in Cannock, Staffs.  Probably the best FT website around with lot's of info and the FT Review newsletter is a must read each month

The Met Office Find out how wet you're going to get on Sunday

Throw Paper! A web based game that will help you shoot in windy conditions!

UKAHFT The UK governing body for HFT

Wendover FTC

 

If you would like a link to your site to be posted here, or if there are dead or incorrect links, let the webmaster know.  We receive quite a few requests to link to other sites but they are not always appropriate.  We will always link to other air rifle clubs and associations but not often to retailers.  Please do not be offended if we choose not to link, but we receive 2 or 3 requests per month from retailers of general outdoors type equipment who stock only one or two types of rifle which are often spring rifles of Chinese manufacture.  They are fine for low cost plinking but we couldn't recommend them for use at the club so we don't link to the site.  The requirement is that you carry stock of equipment that is suitable for use in competition, that it is also your main product range and that you have staff that can offer impartial expertise. 

 

Send mail to Robert at webmaster@sbftc.co.uk with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 08-Oct-2007 09:30