A Conversation with Fredrik Axelsson, Owner of FX Airguns – Part II
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Recently I had the opportunity to speak at length by telephone with Fredrik Axelsson, owner of FX Airguns. This is the second part of that conversation. JE: So what happened next? FA: In 2001, I called Ingvar Alm and asked him who should I deal with in America? He said try Airguns of Arizona. Robert [...]
A Conversation with Fredrik Axelsson, Owner of FX Airguns – Part I
Recently I had the opportunity to speak at length by telephone with Fredrik Axelsson, owner of FX Airguns. JE: How did you get involved with airguns? FA: I had my first airgun when I was five years old. I have been told that I had problems operating that rifle because I was a little too [...]
A “Primitive” Airgun
No one knows for sure exactly when it happened, or where. Some estimate it was sometime in the fifteenth century. Others say it was perhaps thousands of years earlier. Whenever it was, at some point in the mists of time, some intrepid innovator discovered what every kid who has blown the wrapper off a soda [...]
The HW70A Pistol – What fun!
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Okay, I’ll admit it; I was prejudiced. Before I explain why, let’s back up for just a moment. At the heart of the word “prejudiced” is the notion of “pre-judging,” and that carries with it the underlying concept of forming an opinion without sufficient facts to back it up. We certainly see prejudice at work [...]
A conversation with Stefano Gervasoni, Export director of Daystate
In May, 2009, Daystate was acquired by the same group that owns Marocchi Arms. For the past two-and-a-half years, Stefano Gervasoni has been Export Director of Daystate. JE: How did you get involved with airguns? SG: In my last job, I was sales manager for Minelli an Italian company that made wooden stocks for airguns [...]
Airguns of Arizona – the International Connection
If you think that Airguns of Arizona is content to rest on its laurels, quietly baking in the Arizona sun, think again. Recently I spoke with Robert Buchanan, president of AoA, about the company’s international connection. “At least once a year, I go to Europe. Frequently, it is to visit the IWA Fair, which is [...]
In which Mr. Murphy and I do a dance, and I invent a new game
It all started innocently enough. My wife noticed me staring into space with a distant look in my eye and asked what I was doing. “Well, I’m trying to come up with a topic for the next blog,” I said. She replied, “Why don’t you go for something that is just pure fun?” I looked [...]
FX Royale 200 Synthetic .25 caliber – Part II
To ready the FX Royale 200 Synthetic .25 caliber for shooting, attach the filling probe to your high pressure pump or SCUBA tank and charge the reservoir to 200 BAR. Now it’s time to load the magazine. Begin by turning the transparent lid to the magazine counterclockwise until it stops. Put one pellet in the [...]
FX Royale 200 Synthetic .25 caliber – Part I
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FX airguns enjoy a well-deserved reputation for excellence and accuracy, and the FX Royale 200 Synthetic in .25 caliber is no exception. It is a big airgun – 45.5 inches from end to end – that weighs just 6.7 lbs. and delivers a tremendous wallop, nearly 44 foot-pounds at the muzzle. Starting at the extreme [...]
How Airguns of Arizona preps guns before you get them
I came upon the subject for this blog quite by accident, and it was all my fault. A while back I had been whining to Greg, my chief contact at Airguns of Arizona, about how winter was coming in big, bad upstate New York, and if the winter was anything like last year, there was [...]
