FABARM air rifles

[Garvin]

Not really, but I can combine a bit of French and schoolboy Latin.

That bit about the Dianas I don’t understand.

The rest appears mostly to be a standard description of how a tap-loading underlever works “when the lever is returned, the gun can be fired” kind of thing.

It says the basic model was the “Barton” and the deluxe version was the “Redcastle”. I think.

Feeling slightly smug to have discovered a - to us - previously unknown vintage rifle, and therefore expecting someone like Frank to pop up and tell us he has seven of them, with pics.

I think you may have discovered at least three - an underlever with pop-up breech (I wonder if the BSA engineers saw one before the Merlin was produced? Anyway, GLJ was experimenting with pop-up breeches years earlier) plus the two Diana lookalike break barrels (or was there one?).

[Geezer]

I think you may have discovered at least three - an underlever with pop-up breech (I wonder if the BSA engineers saw one before the Merlin was produced? Anyway, GLJ was experimenting with pop-up breeches years earlier) plus the two Diana lookalike break barrels (or was there one?).

I feel fulfilled.

You’re right - it’s a pop-up breech. I’d assumed it was a badly-drawn rear sight with protective wings.

Reading the translation, it can be read (though is open to interpretation) to suggest that the Barton was the D22 style, the Redcastle the 25, both described as carbines, and then there was the u/l rifle.

[Garvin]

I feel fulfilled.

You’re right - it’s a pop-up breech. I’d assumed it was a badly-drawn rear sight with protective wings.

Reading the translation, it can be read (though is open to interpretation) to suggest that the Barton was the D22 style, the Redcastle the 25, both described as carbines, and then there was the u/l rifle.

Not sure I agree with this interpretation. Why would the say "also" instead of mentioning the Diana-type guns in the first paragraph? And the Fabarm website blurb says the Flobert guns were carbines.

This may stay a mystery until some contemporary literature emerges... Is there an Italian airgun forum?

[Geezer]

Not sure I agree with this interpretation. Why would the say "also" instead of mentioning the Diana-type guns in the first paragraph? And the Fabarm website blurb says the Flobert guns were carbines.

This may stay a mystery until some contemporary literature emerges... Is there an Italian airgun forum?

I’m not sure I agree (with myself…) either. Pure speculation. It’s a limitation of the translation. And gun adverts haven’t always been written in the clearest language.

Fascinating that they’d make what appears to be a pretty serious “adult” type rifle, but design the breech block to be able to take darts. With all the implications that would have for the effect of that much freebore on pellet accuracy.

I was wondering if we had any Italian members.

Anyway, I have cheekily emailed FABARM to see if they can provide any more info. Probably not, but worth a punt.