The New BSA 'Defiant' Air Pistol ...

[rancidtom]

It really begs the question, "What the hell has it got to do with Peaky Blinders anyway?"
I truly despair for the Barcelona Small Arms Co. Their marketing department need to take fewer drugs, I think somebody dropped their happy pills in the tea urn? Come to think f it their design department may well be drinking from the same cup!
From the pics I have seen it looks like they've used the Goldstar regulator with a selection of Ultra and Gamo parts with a cocking lever and linkage assembly that is original to this gun, who knows how many bits of cranked piano wire connect the trigger blade to the sear assembly? How many bits of Meccano have they used to connect the cocking lever to the pellet probe and hammer assembly? I actually can't wait to strip one down, but I will have to remain cynical until then.

[gc93]

It really begs the question, "What the hell has it got to do with Peaky Blinders anyway?"
I truly despair for the Barcelona Small Arms Co. Their marketing department need to take fewer drugs, I think somebody dropped their happy pills in the tea urn? Come to think f it their design department may well be drinking from the same cup!
From the pics I have seen it looks like they've used the Goldstar regulator with a selection of Ultra and Gamo parts with a cocking lever and linkage assembly that is original to this gun, who knows how many bits of cranked piano wire connect the trigger blade to the sear assembly? How many bits of Meccano have they used to connect the cocking lever to the pellet probe and hammer assembly? I actually can't wait to strip one down, but I will have to remain cynical until then.

I don't think your tea will get cold waiting/needing to strip one ! the revised mk2 will be out soon because there's bound to be a "blinder" in the workings somewhere !,ill wait till then ..cynical you may say, but it seems to be the norm with several makes over the last few years !.....

[bullbarrel]

I'm not a bullpup fan but I had a go of the new BSA offering.

It shouldered nicely, balanced well, the scope height was spot on and the trigger was nice, if not stunning. I liked the biathlon style action and it would be quick to take a follow up shot. Could potentially be quick enough for rapid fire LSR (5 shots, 10 seconds).

I won't buy one, but I thought it was a contender against the Daystate equivalent whose name I can't remember but the BSA is almost 1/2 the price.

And it gave me the biggest laugh when I kept looking for a pistol on the stand when I first arrived and saw it was a bullpup.

The story I heard is the writer of Peaky Blinders is a BSA air rifle fan. The factory is in the same part of birmingham as the place is set. There is also a tie in with a company selling a peaky blinders fashion line and they saw the show as a good place to launch both.

I was still hoping for a Lewis Gun lookalike

[Gareth W-B]

I'm not a bullpup fan but I had a go of the new BSA offering.

It shouldered nicely, balanced well, the scope height was spot on and the trigger was nice, if not stunning. I liked the biathlon style action and it would be quick to take a follow up shot. Could potentially be quick enough for rapid fire LSR (5 shots, 10 seconds).

I won't buy one, but I thought it was a contender against the Daystate equivalent whose name I can't remember but the BSA is almost 1/2 the price.

And it gave me the biggest laugh when I kept looking for a pistol on the stand when I first arrived and saw it was a bullpup.

The story I heard is the writer of Peaky Blinders is a BSA air rifle fan. The factory is in the same part of birmingham as the place is set. There is also a tie in with a company selling a peaky blinders fashion line and they saw the show as a good place to launch both.

I was still hoping for a Lewis Gun lookalike

Yep, as bull-pups go I dare say it is most excellent but that is one heck of an embarrassingly flimsy and tenuous link to 'Peaky Blinders' for a company as revered as BSA to cling to ... No wonder the people (us) with spendable pennies in our pockets thought that the Defiant would be an interesting retro pistol? Perhaps the Gamo rott has penetrated a tad too far? So maybe BSA are now just the British base for Barcelona Small Arms, after all ???

Btw Andy, I'm with you, as a Lewis look-a-like along the same lines as th old inter-war years BSA trainer certainly would be a must have, no? I remember Eddie Barber had one in his shop window just down the road from me, for a while, before he trustingly loaned it to someone who dumped on him -- and AIRGUNAID -- from a great height and kept it (filthy scum) !!!

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[gingernut]

I never thought it would be a pistol

[Jonjon79]

It shouldered nicely, balanced well, the scope height was spot on and the trigger was nice, if not stunning. I liked the biathlon style action and it would be quick to take a follow up shot. Could potentially be quick enough for rapid fire LSR (5 shots, 10 seconds).

I won't buy one, but I thought it was a contender against the Daystate equivalent whose name I can't remember but the BSA is almost 1/2 the price.

That sounds encouraging

When I first saw the location of the cocking lever I thought 'Ah, they've been listening to airgun shooters'.

I do hope this pup proves to be a good 'un.