Great British Shooting Show 2023

What a year it’s been since our last trip to The Great British Shooting Show and what a time it was we’ve seen some new faces in the gun industry as well as some old favourites so we thought we’d go over a couple of interesting things we saw for those of you who couldn’t make it down to show.

Air Arms Kymira

The Air Arms Kymira is a celebration of the heritage of Air Arms, where they are now and where they are heading. This rifle embodies their many significant milestones, spanning four decades and delivers prestige and performance to the shooter. Using their current cutting-edge technology, they are proud to present the Kymira, a limited edition, truly unique rifle that represents our heritage of world-beating performance and our commitment to excellence throughout their 40 years.

The gun is a piece of living history, artistically crafted from Air Arms' most notable models.

We’ve got 8 of these limited edition beauties coming in roughly May / June time so hop onto our website to pre order yours in either .177 or .22 calibre!

FX Panthera

A dedicated, purpose-built air rifle made to win precision rifle competitions

The FX Panthera is unlike any rifle FX Airguns have made before. It is a dedicated slug rifle, purpose-built with precision competition in mind, and complete with airgun innovation that continues the FX Airguns tradition of pushing the boundaries of airgun performance.

Designed for Competition Shooting

The Panthera stock is designed for competition. It features a 14.75” long Arca rail complete with M-LOK sections and a barricade block nestled next to the breech. Achieve an ideal balance point by adding external M-LOK compatible weights or internal FX Barrel Weights that attach under the shroud

World Changing

Truly the precision rifle world will forever be changed with the new FX Panthera. The rifle feels and shoots like a precision 22LR, enjoying straight back recoil, but with precision and accuracy only found with an FX Airgun!

We should be getting our first batch of these very soon so keep an eye out on our website and social media for updates!

HIKMICRO Alpex Night Vision

Winner of the Great British Shooting Show’s Budget Night Vision of the Year!

The HIKMICRO ALPEX A50T is breaking new ground when it comes to colour night vision performance, offering a true colour image in twilight to no light this pound for pound NV giant bridges the gap between ultra high performance and fantastic pricing. The unique 1/1.18 inch sensor and 3D DNR image algorithm provide clarity images even in low light conditions of 0.001 lux this is what helps you find a clear and detailed image of your target even in the dark and starry skies. The 1440x1080 HD CMOS sensor gives a ground-breaking image in both day and night. Making the HikMicro Alpex the obvious winner when it comes to LOW-LIGHT HUNTING.

The HIKMICRO ALPEX A50T with its advanced sensor technology and image processing delivers a detailed, full-color image throughout the day - automatically adjusting to twilight and continuing to display an amazing full-colour image up until total darkness.

We've already got one of these in store so if you want to see what's so award winning about the Alpex why not pop over and see what all the hype is about!

Air Arms S510 Tactical

Winner of the Great British Shooting Show’s Airgun of the Year!

The S510 Tactical (S510T) is the perfect blend of usability and functionality. The action is built around the extraordinarily successful S510, used worldwide in many disciplines from field sports to HFT.

This versatile action has now been coupled with an ergonomic stock based on the style of choice by governments around the world. The tactical platform offers an almost limitless choice of sizes, handling positions and accessories that make using and shooting this rifle a unique experience.

The functionality of the S510T Tactical air rifle comes from the fact that all mounting points are to international specifications, the grip mount, the M-Lok slots in the fore-end and the mounting location for the butt stock. This means rifle configurations can be adapted to any shooter and indeed changed in minutes to suit changing conditions.

The M-Lok system allows direct fitting of enabled accessories or the mounting of a rail to facilitate the use of equipment you may already own.

The fore-end has M-Lok slots on 3 surfaces, one along the underside and one each side at 90°. Mount a torch on the right, sling mount on the left, bi-pod and vertical grip on the underside, or simply fit rubber inserts to further enhance stability when shouldering the rifle in the traditional fashion.

The scope rail is to the picatinny standard making swap out sights easy and precise.

ASI Accumax

Accuracy has a new name...

The New budget rifle on the block the ASI Accumax is an open sight fibre optic rifle at a fraction of the cost of most other guns these days. Tuned to ASI's specifications this light weight rifle is perfect for both Juniors and Adults with a smooth full power spring. And with a lifetime warranty you won't have to worry about any problems with it either.

We've got these in store now so come down and have a look at the new name in Accuracy available in both .177 and .22

Well that just gives you a taste of what’s out and what’s to come in terms of new Airguns we saw at the show! As always we’d like to thank everyone that came to say hi to the team while we're at the show as well as all our customers who are just as excited as we are for the new Airguns and maybe even some Shotguns down the line…

BSA Ultra CLX 160 Commemorative Edition Release At Drapers Gun Centre

Set to be released on the 22nd of November 2021. BSA have once again celebrated their long and illustrious history with the brand new BSA Ultra CLX 160 Commemorative Edition, Now available for reservation at Drapers Gun Centre Nottingham Retailing at £999.

Working with BSA now for some years it often becomes easy to forget the once humble beginnings of this now monumental company. Starting all the way back in 1854 an association of fourteen Master Gunmakers was formed in Birmingham, England to regulate output, fair prices, and quality of arms manufactured for government contracts. These fourteen members became the founding shareholders of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd when it was formed in 1861. Now 160 years on from that date, BSA have commemorated this achievement with the launch of a very special anniversary edition PCP air rifle. The Ultra CLX 160 (side lever action).

BSA have taken their new Ultra CLX PCP, launched earlier this year, and added some very special and unique features. Only 160 units produced in both .22 calibre and .177 calibre for sale to the UK market. The special features included are as follows:

Ultra CLX with Sidelever action including 160th year anniversary marking.
Minelli ‘Black Pepper’ Laminate Commemorative stock, with special 160 years logo laser engraved on the bottom of the pistol grip. A feature which will never be repeated.
Colour coded safety catches matched to the rifle calibre to compliment the magazines.
Commemorative certificate of authenticity with the rifle's unique serial number hand signed by BSA’s present managing director.
A special 160th year souvenir fabric patch only available to those who purchase this special package.
Supplied with commemorative collector’s edition packaging, hard synthetic carry case, BSA 3-9x50 scope, BSA moderator and tin of BSA premium pellets.

BSA Guns have decided upon the side lever action as an innovative way of enhancing this one-off edition. We decided to take what we had delivered on the Defiant, and incorporate that into a traditional Carbine/rifle PCP. The result is a smooth robust action which ergonomically fits and functions perfectly on this unique BSA sporter.

The prestige Minelli stock is made from their ‘Black Pepper’ laminate, a favourite with BSA and its customers. On this commemorative model a specially engraved anniversary marking has been laser engraved onto the stock, and will also appear etched on the gun's action, making no mistake this is a very special BSA collector’s edition.

As always we at Drapers Gun Centre are looking forward to joining in with the celebrations of BSA’s 160 years of exceptional service, with their new commemorative rifle, here in Nottingham and we are always looking forward to what game changing innovations they bring to the table in the future.

Hear what BSA have to say for themselves

BSA Ultra CLX 160 Commemorative Edition .22 Last One in Stock

The Daystate Red Wolf Heritage Release

As we all know on the 2nd April 2021 at 11am Daystate released what we have all been waiting for... details of their new Limited Edition - The Daystate Red Wolf Heritage. Of course we were eager to get involved and got as many as we could on order for our customers at Drapers Airgun Centre.

What Daystate has got to say regarding this new Limited Edition -

The Daystate Red Wolf Heritage provides a highly collectible limited edition air rifle to satisfy Daystate connoisseurs and serious airgun shooters alike.

Pioneering PCP airgun manufacture at Daystate has chosen its advance second generation GCU 2.0 Red Wolf as the base and in time honoured Daystate fashion the Red Wolf Heritage is a limited edition with only 250 models to be released worldwide.

Beautifully styled, the Red Wolf Heritage melds a bronze and carbon fibre finish with matching laminate woodwork. The new Red Wolf Heritage serves to remind shooters that besides leading the airgun world technologically, Daystate also creates some of the finest looking rifles in more classical format. With its flowing lines the Red Wolf has been praised worldwide as one of the most beautiful air rifles of all time. But a Daystate air rifle’s beauty is never just skin deep.

Inside the Heritage air rifle’s luxurious exterior beats a digitally regulated heart that bears testament to Daystate’s 15 years mastery of building electronically controlled air rifles.

The limited edition Daystate Heritage incorporates the very latest updates applied to the Red Wolf in its 3 year production. Such as critically acclaimed art barrel and MCT technology. The Red Wolf Heritage is guaranteed to deliver match-like accuracy out to the most extreme ranges.

The Daystate Heritage – Welcome to the Family.

Upon speaking with a good friend of ours at Drapers Airguns Mr Lee Perryman who is a Daystate ASP Team Shooter he quoted the following after being one of the first people to ever see and shoot the new Daystate Red Wolf Heritage.

"Well it’s that time again when the gossip and rumour mill start to grind, about a new release of a limited edition rifle from Daystate!
As a member of the Daystate ASP team and living quite close to the Daystate factory, I received a call from Tony Belas asking if he could come over to one of my permissions and bring something with him. The Daystate outdoor range being closed due to Covid 19 and with limited options available he wanted to film the latest Limited edition which had just been finished.
On arrival at my farm, Tony handed me a rifle bag, eagerly I opened it to find the new Red Wolf Heritage! I had seen a computer render of the rifle a few months before but this looked way more exciting and everything you could expect from a Daystate limited edition!
So not only did I get to get the first glimpse of the new LE, I got to shoot and video it, which is a real novelty for something so secret."

Here are links to Lee Perryman's YouTube Channel and Instagram pages which are worth a follow especially if you are a fan of Daystate, Pulsar and Spartan products.

Below we've got the specification of the Daystate Red Wolf Heritage. It is being released in .177 and .22 (links attached here to purchase on our website). Here at Draper's Airgun Centre we have 5 of each calibre and is on a first come first serve basis at £2749.99 (scope not included).

Overall Length: 99.0 cm (39 ins)
Barrel Length: 43 cm (17 ins)
Cylinder Capacity: 480 cc
Weight (Unscoped): 3.5 kg (7.5lbs)
Loading: Magazine and Single Shot Tray
Cocking: Side Lever action - reversible
Magazine: 10-13 Shot
Fill Pressure: Up to 250 BAR (3,625 psi)
Power / Shots Per Charge 0.22: 475 shots 12 ft/lbs
Power / Shots Per Charge 0.177: 420 shots 12 ft/lbs
Trigger: Electronic release. Adjustable for weight and length of stage.
Safety: Manual, cross bar, lever open deactivation.
Stock: Ambidextrous Laminate
Standard features include; Bronze 0dB Silencer, custom Gun box, Charging adaptor. Certificate of authenticity.

BSA Ultra CLX Release at Drapers Airguns

Released on the 5^th March 2021, BSA revealed their latest Airgun – a brand new air rifle to celebrate the fact they are 160 years old this year. Quite aptly they have named the gun the CLX – which if you look at it in Roman Numerals, that is exactly what it is.

Here at Drapers Airguns in Nottingham we were one of the first to know of this Airgun release from BSA, and we were able to get our hands on ten of the First Edition Ultra CLX Packs and have plenty of the standard CLX Airguns coming into stock. But more on these later.

BSA, Birmingham Small Arms, have been situated in Birmingham since 1861 where the design, development and manufacturing takes place on the famous Armoury Road headquarters. They have taken advantage of the latest cutting-edge technologies to develop an extraordinary compact PCP air rifle and we certainly agree it is rather fantastic. Studying the gun everything has changed, bar the trigger guard, cold hammer forged barrel and bolt, but there is no mistaking the gun’s heritage.

A beautifully balanced and designed gun, it really does elevate the BSA brand. The newly designed Monoblock chassis is purpose built, reducing internal components thus improving reliability and efficiency and will enhance your shooting to a thrilling new level. A superbly accurate gun for ratting, range shooting, hide hunting and much more.

Similar to the BSA Ultra, it is shorter in length and ideal for someone who is in the market for a more compact airgun with a manageable weight, perfect for shooting even in some of the tightest spaces. Teamwork between Minelli in Italy and BSA has produced an ambidextrous original-looking Minelli crafted stock incorporating a stippled pattern giving the fore stock a nice feel. The First Editions are made in Walnut and the standard in Beech. Studs have been fitted on both the front and rear for easy fit of a bipod or sling as well as a rubberised butt pad for ultimate comfort.

The BSA CLX introduces BSA’s brand new anti-double load 12 shot magazine systems which comes with a shot countdown indicator. No more double loads! Efficiency is greatly increased, as well as air capacity, and you could achieve an increase in shot count of 50%. Also a newly designed fully adjustable trigger – length, laterally and radially. Plus – again brand new – the rotary safety catch design with a red dot immediately perceptible when you’re live.

This is the new generation BSA airgun that customers will want!

The BSA CLX is being released in both .177 and .22

Length – 82cm / 32inch

Weight – 2.6kg / 5.7lbs (gun only)

Magazine capacity – 12

Shot count - .177 60 shots

.22 72 shots

Maximum Muzzle Velocity - .177 700ft/s

.22 570 ft/s

The First Edition is a limited run of two hundred units that BSA have produced. At Drapers Airguns, as with other dealers, we were limited to five in each of .177 and .22 which have unfortunately now sold out within three days of release! The First Edition includes a Walnut Minelli stock, a BSA Essentials 3-9x50 WR Scope, BSA Silencer and a hard synthetic carry case.

Arrival date for the BSA CLX will be from the first week of April 2021 to Drapers Airgun Centre, Nottingham.

You can buy the BSA Ultra CLX beech airgun only by following this link or Drapers are offering its own custom package!

We’re looking forward to seeing more airgun releases from BSA later this year. As always, Drapers Airguns will be the first to let you know, as well as stocking them on the shelves in our store in Nottingham from their release date.

Ultra CLX First Edition – BSA Guns Link to BSA's Ultra CLX First Edition page.

Ultra CLX – BSA Guns Link to BSA's Ultra CLX page.

You can browse all of Drapers Airguns BSA products in stock here.