Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Benjamin Air Rifle Company was formed in 1902 when Walter R. Benjamin purchased the patent rights from the defunct St. Louis Air Rifle Company. Production from 1902 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1986 was in St. Louis. In 1977, the Benjamin Air Rifle Company purchased Sheridan Products in Racine, Wisconsin. Benjamin and Sheridan were acquired by ...
Sheridan Products Inc was acquired by its competitor, the Benjamin Air Rifle Company in 1977, thus ending the original line of Sheridan Model C's in 1976.* (Benjamin Air Rifle Company continued producing Model C's until 1992 when the company was purchased by competitor Crosman Corporation.
The new owners had no interest in air rifle production and production never resumed. Sterling was again sold in 1989 to British Aerospace and, after the assets were stripped, ceased trading. In 1988 the rights to the designs were purchased by Benjamin-Sheridan [3] and the HR-81 and HR-83 then enjoyed limited production in the USA. [4]
The Crosman model 1377 (also known as the "American Classic") is a single-shot, bolt-action, pneumatic .177 caliber pellet gun, featuring a rifled steel barrel and imitation wood checkered plastic grips. The 1377 was introduced in 1977, and has been in continuous production ever since.
A para-athlete competing with a match air rifle A collection of lever-action, spring-piston air rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.
The HW 35 was Weihrauch's first mass-market, high-powered, spring-powered sporter air rifle. However, with time, the HW 35 became technically obsolete as newer, more advanced air rifles entered the market. The HW 80, HW 85 and HW 95 were all designed as evolutionary replacements for the HW 35, and all occupy the same approximate market segment.
Remington Model 1816 Musket aka "Maynard Rifle" Remington Rolling Block rifle family ... Express Air Rifle [4] Shotguns. Pump-action. Model 10; Model 17; Model 29 ...
General-purpose machine gun Soviet Union: KPV: 14.5×114mm: Heavy machine gun Soviet Union: DShK [1] 12.7×108mm: Heavy machine gun Soviet Union: M2 Browning [1].50 BMG: Heavy machine gun United States: Sniper rifles PSL [7] 7.62×54mmR: Designated marksman rifle Sniper rifle Socialist Republic of Romania: Rocket propelled grenade launchers RPG ...