Maybe they are targeting the larger American market.
Whats with the need to write "serial" before the serial number? Are only the stupidest people on the planet that dont know what a serial number looks like going to buy this gun?
Maybe they are targeting the larger American market.
How boringly predictable.
Mods, please move this to General Airgun, ideally to a new sub-forum called "boring probably over-priced PCP bullpups".
I have never watched Peaky Blinders, but I gather it is set in 1929. And I have noted that one of the protagonists is widely pictured holding a 1930 model Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 SMG (which is a very nice and good-looking SMG, by the way).
Does the show involve time travel? A sort of 1920s Birmingham Doctor Who prequel?
Peaky Blinders is a great series but they've sullied it's reputation by associating it with this tat
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Agreed the series was great, but maybe I am missing something? Maybe I am being more than usually dim? But for the life of me, I just don't get it? What is the connection between an inter-war period Midlands based gangsta drama and a 21st Century brightly coloured midget's air rifle?
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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 !.....
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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I never thought it would be a pistol