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Girardoni air rifle. The Girandoni air rifle is an air gun designed by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Girandoni circa 1779. The weapon was also known as the Windbüchse ("wind rifle" in German ). One of the rifle's more famous associations is its use on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore and map the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Air gun. A collection of spring-piston air rifles. Under Lever Spring Piston Air Rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.
Daisy Avanti 753S Elite air rifle (.177 pellet caliber) 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, Michigan, to manufacture steel windmills, and from 1888 started bundling BB ...
Sheridan Products Inc. was formed to produce Pneumatic Air Pellet Rifles with production beginning in March 1947. In the early 1940s Co-founder Ed Wackerhagen, dissatisfied with a pellet gun used by his son, set out to build one of the finest airguns in history.
Consists of shorts, T-shirt, jacket and pants. Service dress uniform. Consists of a three-button coat, similar to that of a men's "sport jacket" (with silver "U.S." pins on the lapels), matching trousers, and either a service cap or flight cap, all in Shade 1620, "Air Force Blue" (a darker purplish-blue).
3"/23 caliber gun United States: World War I / World War II 76.2 3"/50 caliber gun United States: World War I / World War II / Korean War / Cold War / Vietnam War 76.2 3"/70 Mark 26 gun United States: Cold War 76.2 76-mm air-defense gun M1914/15 Russian Empire: World War I 76.2 76 mm air defense gun M1931 Soviet Union: World War II 76.2
The BSA Meteor is a series of break barrel spring powered rifle first made in Birmingham, UK, in 1959 by The Birmingham Small Arms Company and the first BSA air rifle engineered to fit a telescopic sight. [1] It is one of the worlds best selling air weapons with over 2 million sold worldwide. Marketed as an introductory rifle for plinking ...
10 metre air rifle (N.B. For "Meter" in this article – read "Metre") is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of 10 meters (10.94 yards) using a 4.5 mm (0.177 in) calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg (12.13 lb). It is one of the ISSF -governed shooting sports ...