It’s a shame,
you look at new air pistols that are available now and they are nearly all imitation firearms. I know there are some interesting new air pistols out there like the affordable pcp’s by Artimis and nice spring pistols like the Cometa Indian but when I’m at the club most other people shooting pistols are blatting away with replica style co2 pistols and barely hitting anything.

I feel privileged to collect and shoot air pistols that are designed to shoot a pellet accurately down range, and the designs vary based on cost, patents and mechanism. Such a huge variety of designs, all with their merits.

It’s a shame that designs like the Tempest and Daisy 717 etc have been discontinued. Daisy only make replica firearm co2 pistols now.
At least we still have the HW45, Record LP2, Gamo Compact and FAs 6004 for sale but I can’t help but feel sad that a lot of people coming into air pistols will automatically think of replica CO2 pistols.

I wonder what changed?

Matt