Today we’re traveling to a small village somewhere in the middle of England. Actually, it’s the quiet medieval village of Eccleshall in the county of Staffordshire. There – if you know where to look – you’ll find an inconspicuous-looking modern building tucked-away. It’s the Daystate factory.
In fact, this is the factory where both Daystate and Brocock airguns are assembled. Let’s look around and see the mouth-watering variety of beautiful air rifles in various states of construction…
Above. Assembled actions are stored in racks prior for leak testing. Stocks are added only at the final stage – just prior to packaging – to protect the beautiful woodwork.
At Daystate, every air rifle is built to order. The customer is indicated on the breech of each gun with a paper sticker. For example the AOFA stickers on these Brocock Commanders indicate that they are destined to cross the Atlantic to Airguns of Arizona.
Then there’s more over here for AoA, too!
At one side of the manufacturing floor, ART barrels arrive. They’re machined ready for installation in the breech/receiver assemblies.
In another part of the floor, trigger assemblies are being assembled by expert technicians at their workbenches. These are electronic triggers for the Delta Wolf.
Below we see some Wolverine HPs being assembled. This, of course, is Daystate’s top-of-the-line, all-mechanical air rifle.
Each Daystate and Brocock air rifle is bench-assembled by a skilled technician. They’re proud of their work, as you can see below!
Each gun is filled with High Pressure Air and then leak-tested for several days. Once they have passed that test, they move on to the shooting test.
Here, every gun is fired over a Chronograph and the targets checked for accuracy. Using Daystate pellets, of course!
A record is kept of the performance of every air rifle, on paper and electronically…
After testing, guns have the stocks added, prior to packing for shipment.
Now, finally, we have the final product! It’s checked-over a final time and boxed together with magazine, instruction manual and all the other goodies you find when a Daystate air rifle like these Pulsars reaches you!
I hope that you’ve enjoyed this Daystate factory tour!
From what I could see and hear, everyone there is doing a great job. They certainly know that Airguns of Arizona is one of their biggest and most important customers – that means that they try their best to ensure that the Daystate or Brocock air rifle YOU buy is as perfect as they can make it!
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