Author Archives: Jim Chapman
Sparrows (I think) in China
Several Years ago, almost twenty as I now think back, I was living in Tokyo. I had to make a trip over to China on short notice, and a scheduling error found me with free time and stumbling into a really unique airgunning experience. I wrote this up for my first airgun hunting book, the American Airgunner, and … Continue reading
Thoughts on Competition and the Extreme Bench Rest
I’m getting packed up and preparing to leave on an airgunning hog hunt down in Texas for a few days. It’s going to be a lot of fun, getting out in the field for a quarry and in a place where modern big bore airgun hunting really took off. Being out in the field, and … Continue reading
A Date With My FX Verminator!
I was watching Shane Keller clean up in the speed silhouette event at the Extreme Bench Rest shooting his FX Verminator left handed, and it got me thinking back over my experience with the gun. I have been blessed and lucky in that my love of Airguns and hunting dovetailed with a modest skill with … Continue reading
Concept Elite
I’ve just posted a video on the Brocock Concept Elite, and will be adding more information on it soon. Taking it out squirrel hunting this weekend then out for rabbit in Texas and AZ in the next few weeks. Below is the transcript from the video, and the link is; The Brocock Concept Elite 22S6 … Continue reading
Compact Hunting Rifles: Stepping Out With The Brocock Concept Elite
OK, so it’s no big secrete amongst those that know me, I’ve got a thing for compact hunting rigs. Set me up with a selection of the premium PCP rifles, and my natural tendency is to gravitate towards the lightest, shortest, yet always full performance gun in the collection. After the recent AOA sponsored EBR … Continue reading
Part II: My Personal History with Big Bores
In this second part I’m going to take a look at the growth of big bore airguns, again from my personal observations, so it’s a history that is skewed to what I’ve seen. Having spent a lot of my life living around the globe, I found that the history I learned in school wasn’t quite … Continue reading
Extreme Benchrest in Tucson
I’ve been on the road the better part of a couple weeks now, first in Tokyo on business followed by a quick trip to Arizona to participate in the Extreme Benchrest competition sponsored by Airguns of Arizona, Daystate, and FX Airguns. Then back to (a frozen) Minneapolis. The jet lag, hours in the airport, frustration … Continue reading
Winter Time Hunting is Here
Being a native son of Southern California, cold weather and I have not always been on friendly terms. I lived in Northern Europe for many years and even did a couple sabbaticals up in Trondheim Norway pushing up against the Arctic circle, but warm weather is coded into my DNA! I’m writing this blog entry … Continue reading
My Journey into Airgun Hunting
I get a lot of questions about how I got into airgunning and what changes I’ve seen over the last several years. In this two part post I’m going to look at one airgunners journey into an emerging hunting sport, grounded in Europe but gaining maturity in the United States. In this two part article I am going to … Continue reading
Another Short Hunt
Was out squirrel hunting today with the Brocock Specialist, love this little gun but more about this later. So far this year has been great for squirrel hunting up here in my new home of Minnesota, as I mentioned in the last post I’ve found a lot of public land to hunt, bushytail populations are … Continue reading
