Quote Originally Posted by evert View Post
Its interesting how slapping on the magnum-word makes a gun more suitable for the American market.
Stand to be corrected, but I think we can blame Bob Beeman for inventing the marketing idea that any air rifle he sold making more than 10 ft-lbs was a “magnum”.

Helped sell a bunch of guns, though. The pithier American equivalent of our 1980s “maximum hunting power, right up to the legal limit”.