Mike Morton

Mike Morton

Mike Morton is the Editor of Airgun Shooter Magazine and has been shooting air rifles for nearly forty years. His expert knowledge of airguns extends to pistols, pellets, plinking and hunting.

Daystate Alpha Wolf Safari Edition

Daystate is a company that loves to create and innovate. It’s now known the world over for its electronic rifles, most recently the Red Wolf, Delta Wolf and Alpha Wolf.…

It’s hard to believe, but the Weihrauch HW100 is celebrating its 20th birthday this year, and it’s probably fair to say that while not all airgun shooters will have owned…

One piece of advice that I’ve repeatedly heard throughout my shooting career is to buy the best telescopic sight you can afford. When I was first told this, I didn’t…

A modern telescopic sight is a precision instrument, full of helpful features, but at its most basic level a scope has one simple role to play – it helps us…

It’s the climax of The Man With The Golden Gun. Francisco Scaramanga challenges James Bond to “a duel between titans – my golden gun against your Walther PPK”. As we…

It may be tempting to look back with rose-tinted glasses at the airguns, scopes and other shooting paraphernalia of yesteryear, but I firmly believe that in terms of airgun ammunition…

Some people are really into knives, having a vast collection of blades from certain manufacturers, or even certain knifemakers, sometimes using them in the real world, but often keeping them…

The search for the perfect hunting pellet seems neverending, with manufacturers trying to create the elusive mix of ballistic performance and the sudden transfer of kinetic energy into the killzone…

One of the many great things about airgunning as a sport is that it offers so many opportunities to enjoy yourself, and collecting functioning replicas must be near the top…

It’s no secret that piston-powered rifles are more demanding than their PCP counterparts, and the hunt is always on to find a sublime springer that lets you eke out the…

Professional Airgun Optics has an extensive line-up of telescopic sights, and that line-up has now grown with the arrival of the new SSS series, one of which, the PAO 6-24×56…

Will it or won’t it? Lead ammo being banned, that is. As airgun shooters, we can’t get into the minds of the politicians or gaze into a crystal ball and…

If you’ve been shooting for any length of time then you’ll already know how important it is to find the correct pellet for your particular rifle. If you were to…

Traditional sporting rifles are wonderful things, often featuring a beautifully figured walnut stock, but while they’ve been around for decades let’s not get haunted by the past, because there are…

best airguns

On the hunt for something? We’ve rounded up some of the best airguns around. (Take a look at our list of best airgun pellets too.) You might also look at…