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Welcome to Air Power on Team Wild TV. This week the worlds biggest and best air gun show
is brought to you from the South East of England at a very special event. The Air Arms 30th
Anniversary Shoot. Air Arms have been a huge supporter of air gun shooting, field target
and hunter field target since the very beginning and have also brought us some of the best
air guns on the market. 30 years on and they are still going strong, still bringing you
the best air rifles and still supporting air gun target shooting. So what better way to
celebrate 30 years of shooting air rifles than to host an anniversary shoot with an
air rifle birthday cake! Team Wild's Air Power tagged along for the day to find out a little
more about Air Arms, their history and the people they work with in the industry still
today. Oh, and of course, to see some quality shooting. Hello, my name is Terry Doe, and
I am down here in Sussex, to help celebrate the air arms 30th anniversary year. It is
a wonderful shoot going on here, superb playground, and we are all having a good time. Air arms
has been, as far as we know it a company who is focusing air gun shooting forward in an
area for us, and an interesting one, which you have here in the UK, that can shoot air
guns out in nature. That means field target, that means hunting, that means on the other
hand, free shooting with air guns and having fun together as in shooting competitions.
I believe that Air Arms is one of the best company in the world regarding the air arms - air guns. Experience, innovation
and the company, and I think it is a very very good company. Air Arms was begun by a
guy sadly no longer with us, Bob Nicholls. It was pioneered really by another guy, who
is also sadly no longer with us anymore Bill Sanders, and in the early days they started
off with spring piston guns and moved through to pre-charged numatics brought in, and field
target. They have also supported the field target sport, they have always had a good
team, and they have always resounded superbly from the readers, from their customers, and
from trade advisors as well. They are now one of the very biggest players in the world
with precision air guns, and they are going from strength to strength. Coming from Germany
where we have only limited ability to shoot air guns out in nature, we are more or less
obliged to shoot indoors, 10 metre, on targets, it is very nice to see that you are able to
shoot out in the nature, its a much more complex competition because we have the distance,
we have the wind, we have the temperature, we have the light, and therefore it is very
interesting to see that you can have air gun sports out in nature. I believe that field
target is loved by all the hunters and also the shooters because it is a good occasion
to be in nature, to go around the hills and the farms, and I believe that one shoot disciplines,
it is very near to the hunting, or hunter discipline. Air Arms, is for us, in the air
gun sector a very important customer, and very interesting to work with together because
they are very orientated on the demand of the few target shooters of the hunters of
the air gun shooters, and they try to bring out a product which is interesting and always
in the lead of the entire market. Today we are here North Hall farm, as part of our 30th
birthday celebrations, we have got a special anniversary shooting competition and that
is running alongside our annual RSN 10' memorial shoot. There are 165 competitors, and that
is the highest number we have seen, we have been running the RSN 10' memorial shoot for
3 years, so this year, it has just gone crazy, phenomenal. We are putting on this event because
it is our way of giving something back to the industry, or back to the sport, you know
these guys are spending there hard earned cash on our products, and without these people
we wouldn't have an industry, so its our way of giving something back. Happy 30th anniversary
Air Arms and thanks for the hard work. Here's to another 30 years of great work, support
and quality air gun shooting. To find out more about Air Arms visit their website at
air-arms.co.uk