Turkish airguns

[Dave.w]

Well am here in turkey ,near alanya about 80 km from antalya no sign of any airguns wherever we go asked local people nobody seems to know anything about airguns here at all ,even asked the travel advisor on our hotel complex ,considering so many airguns come out of Turkey seems strange nobody here knows anything about them ,no shops etc selling them.

[CapitalBee]

Going back a good few years ago, I had to do some work in Turkey for an employer looking at suppliers. You might find the arms industry is centred in one city, which means most people won't have an idea.

[rapidresponse1]

id of thought there would of been a few shops localy

[Neil54]

Probably get them mail order.

[TonyL]

I guess that, even fifty years ago, if people had visited England and asked non-shooting people about BSA and Webley air rifles most wouldn't have had a clue as to their whereabouts.......?

[Logunner]

This is like the Yanks expecting every Scouser to be friends with a Beatle

[Neil54]

I have a friend in London, maybe you know them?

[Chippendale]

I have a friend in London, maybe you know them?

Its not old Bill is it Neil?

Melv

Chippendale

[harvey_s]

It's a fair question...

You might expect a nation with a high turnout of a particular product to have grown out of a domestic market, but in Turkey's case it would seem not.

I wonder if China has a domestic market for airguns? If it did, I'd have assumed it would be almost entirely for cheap springers.

[Shed tuner]

I have a friend in London, maybe you know them?

small world, so do I

[TonyL]

The thing is, I think, no matter where in the Wotld we might go (apart from the US, at a guess), shooting will be very much a minority pastime. And airguns even more so. So asking general randoms might often just result in glazed looks and shrugged shoulders from the vast majority of the population.

I would guess, however, that if you asked people in and around Birmingham from about the 1900s to the 1960s, you'd have received a more positive result, as "the BSA" was such a big player back then.....sporting rifles and guns, shotguns, airguns, armaments, bicycles, motorcycles etc......I'd have loved to have walked around that area back then....

[angrybear]

I could ask in the middle of Exeter, very few would know anything about airguns/shooting/SGC,
Go out in to a farming village probably get all the answers.

I believe airgun laws in Turkey are stricter than those in the UK.

[Kes]

I could ask in the middle of Exeter, very few would know anything about airguns/shooting/SGC,
Go out in to a farming village probably get all the answers.

Well, Sportsman's is reputedly the largest gun shop in Europe ...

[Kuyajonathan]

I could ask in the middle of Exeter, very few would know anything about airguns/shooting/SGC,
Go out in to a farming village probably get all the answers.

I believe airgun laws in Turkey are stricter than those in the UK.

Was going to say that perhaps Firearms laws may be less strict than UK, so more attractive than airguns?

Checking with my God daughter's father has business interests in Turkey & one daughter lived there for awhile

[MattyBoy]

It amazes me that I meet people round here quite often that say "oh you are into airguns! I have a really nice one"

When I ask them what airgun it is they invariably shrug and say something like "no idea... But I know it's a good one"

Very odd behaviour!

Matty