Shooting Supplies LTD

Shooting Supplies LTD Welcome to Shooting Supplies Ltd, the UK's go-to gun shop for every shooter! Trusted UK distributors of the FAB Defense, Tippmann Arms & Grand Power brands.

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www.shootingsuppliesltd.co.uk Shooting Supplies opened in the heart of Bromsgrove in 2002 and just four years later moved to its present location offering a purpose-built shop featuring a dedicated gun room on the outskirts of the town. The 3000 sq ft premises offer customers a convenient location just off the A38 and close to the M5 and M42 motorways with plenty of parking. Knowledgeable, experienced staff are always on hand to provide a helpful, friendly service to help fulfil our aim for customers to leave the shop happy with their purchases and confident in the advice they have received. Our philosophy that ‘customer service is paramount` is key to our business. Catering for all disciplines of shooting and offering all the necessary accessories enables customers to visit just one shop for all their shooting needs

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Somewhere on your sh***un or r***e there's a tiny stamp. There's a decent chance it came from a building about twenty mi...
04/10/2026

Somewhere on your sh***un or r***e there's a tiny stamp. There's a decent chance it came from a building about twenty miles up the road from us.

The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House opened in 1813, set up by Act of Parliament at the request, and the expense, of the Birmingham gun trade. At the time it was one of only two proof houses in England. The other was in London.

The job hasn't changed much in two centuries. A gun is fired with a deliberately overcharged load inside an armoured chamber. If it survives, it gets its marks. If it doesn't, better there than in your hands. Since 1868 it's been an offence to sell a gun in this country that hasn't been proofed.

By then Birmingham had nearly 600 gun firms, most of them packed into the Gun Quarter. The Proof House is still there on Banbury Street, still doing exactly the same job.

So here's a small Sunday job. Have a look at the flats of your barrels, or near the chamber. Whose marks have you got? Birmingham, London, or somewhere further afield? Show us below đŸ‘‡

New in the used rack:FX DRS Synthetic, .177. No licence needed. In excellent condition, and it comes with a Hawke 3-9x40...
02/10/2026

New in the used rack:

FX DRS Synthetic, .177. No licence needed. In excellent condition, and it comes with a Hawke 3-9x40, the FX moderator, a bipod and two mags. That's £99 over Wednesday's budget challenge, with the whole setup already on it.

Walther PPQ, .177 pellet. No licence needed. An 8-shot CO2 pistol in excellent condition, boxed, with two mags. A cheap way to have a lot of fun in the garden.

Browning T-Bolt Target Varmint, .22 LR. FAC. A straight pull with a stainless action and grey laminate stock, and an A-TEC Wave moderator included. One of the nicer rimfires to cycle quickly.

Marlin 1895, .45-70. FAC. An older JM-stamped r***e in excellent condition, with a Ranger Point lever, a Skinner peep sight and a Kick-Eez pad. The pad is there for a reason.

Tikka T3x Custom, 6.5 Creedmoor. £1,449. FAC. An MDT ESS chassis, a Cerakote stainless action, a 24" varmint barrel and a fluted bolt. Someone put real thought into this build.

Every gun is inspected before it goes on sale. Collection from Bromsgrove.

Which one's going home with you?

You've got £500 and a farmer who's sick of rabbits. Build us a r***e.The rules. It's a sub-12 ft/lb air r***e, so no lic...
29/09/2026

You've got £500 and a farmer who's sick of rabbits. Build us a r***e.

The rules. It's a sub-12 ft/lb air r***e, so no licence needed. The £500 has to cover everything that gets you shooting: r***e, scope, mounts, moderator and a tin of pellets. If you go P*P, the fill comes out of the same pot. A pump counts. Borrowing your mate's dive bottle doesn't.

New kit, full price. Second-hand is where most of us found our best bargains, but that makes it too easy.

It's tighter than it sounds. Some of the best first rabbit r***es we've sold came in under budget. Some of the worst setups we've seen started with £450 on the r***e and £50 left for glass.

So where does your money go? A springer with a proper scope, or a cheap P*P and a hand pump? Brands welcome. We'll pick the builds we reckon would actually get the job done and put them together in a post next week.

Your £500. What's on the list?

Everyone has one. The purchase that seemed brilliant at the counter, lasted about three outings, and has lived at the ba...
27/09/2026

Everyone has one. The purchase that seemed brilliant at the counter, lasted about three outings, and has lived at the back of the cabinet ever since.

Maybe it's the bipod that weighs more than the r***e it was bought for. The scope with so much magnification it's only useful for looking at clouds or the shooting sticks that have never actually left the car.

So this week we want yours. The kit you bought and regretted, and what you'd tell someone about to make the same mistake.

One ground rule. Brands are fine, but keep it fair. Most regret comes from buying the wrong thing for the job, not from a bad product, and the gear you hated might be perfect for the person reading your comment.

What's the one you'd take back, and what should you have bought instead?

The nights are drawing in, and the question has changed from "which scope" to "which night kit".Thermal or digital night...
22/09/2026

The nights are drawing in, and the question has changed from "which scope" to "which night kit".

Thermal or digital night vision. Both get you shooting after dark. They both do different jobs.

Thermal picks up heat. A rabbit or a fox glows against cold ground from a long way off, with no torch or lamp needed. For finding things, nothing beats it. It'll also show you anything warm behind the animal, like a sheep or a dog. The downside is that cold things such as banks, walls and gates can all look much the same, so you need to take more care working out what's behind your shot.

Night vision scopes work more like a camera. They come with an infrared torch, a light your eye barely sees, and show you a proper black and white picture. You can see the ground clearly, which makes it much easier to check it's safe to shoot. The same scope works as a normal scope in daylight too. The downside is you only see as far as the torch reaches, and spotting a fox tucked into a hedge is much harder.

Plenty of people end up running both. Thermal in the hand to find it, digital on the r***e to take the shot.

One budget, one device for the winter. Which way are you going?

Tippmann Arms have just picked up a new contract. The Royal Thai Army's Territorial Defence Command has chosen the M4-22...
21/09/2026

Tippmann Arms have just picked up a new contract. The Royal Thai Army's Territorial Defence Command has chosen the M4-22 Elite as the training r***e for its student marksmanship programme, replacing the Armi Jager .22s that have done the job since the early 80s.

That's not a small order. The programme runs across 35 live-fire ranges and puts thousands of new shooters through basic marksmanship every year. The reasons given for choosing it are the ones we hear across the counter every week: it runs, it lasts, and anyone can strip and clean it.

What we find interesting is the Armi Jager bit. Those were the original AR-style rimfires, and plenty of people in this country cut their teeth on one. Forty years is a good innings. Being the r***e chosen to replace them says something.

We've been the UK importer for Tippmann for a while now and we'll happily admit we're a bit chuffed. The M4-22 has quietly become the default mini r***e at a lot of UK clubs for the same reasons: high round counts, cheap to feed, no drama.

First P*P air r***e: what to budget for the fill?We see it happen often. Someone's saved up for their first pre-charged ...
20/09/2026

First P*P air r***e: what to budget for the fill?

We see it happen often. Someone's saved up for their first pre-charged r***e, done the research, picked a good one, and then the question at the counter is "so how do I put air in it?" and the answer adds a chunk to the bill they weren't expecting.

Three ways to do it. A stirrup pump, which is the cheapest and works, but filling to 200 bar by hand is a proper workout and it gets old fast. A dive bottle, which is the easy life at home but needs testing every few years and refilling with us. Or a compressor, which is the most convenient and the most money, and a lot of people get there eventually anyway.

None of these are wrong. The mistake is not budgeting for one at all and ending up with a r***e you can only shoot on the days you've got the energy to pump.

If you're pricing a first P*P, price the fill too. Then the number you're actually spending is the real one.

How do you fill yours, and what did you start with?

Air r***e moderators are now available on the website. Until this week you had to come into the shop in Bromsgrove for o...
15/09/2026

Air r***e moderators are now available on the website. Until this week you had to come into the shop in Bromsgrove for one, which was fine if you're local and a bit of a trek if you're not. Sorted now.

We've got options from Air Arms, 3 Legged Thing, Huggett, Weihrauch and more. Most are 1/2" UNF, so check your muzzle thread before ordering.

You might be buying pellets on reputation, without consulting your r***e..Every airgunner has a tin they swear by. A com...
14/09/2026

You might be buying pellets on reputation, without consulting your r***e..

Every airgunner has a tin they swear by. A common mistake is assuming your barrel agrees. Two identical r***es off the same production line can often prefer different pellets, and the one that groups in your mate's r***e can throw flyers in yours for no reason anyone can explain.

The fix is boring and it costs an afternoon. Buy four or five different tins from the usual suspects, shoot ten-shot groups at 30 yards with each, same rest, same conditions, and let the paper decide. Not five shots. Not three. Ten, because flyers hide in small groups.

Once you've got a winner, weigh a handful. If the weights are all over the place, that's where your flyers are coming from. And try both head sizes if the pellet's made in more than one. A 4.52 and a 4.53 can behave like different pellets in the same barrel.

Once you've found it, buy that pellet by the sleeve.

What's the pellet your r***e chose, and was it the one you expected?

13/09/2026

The FAB defense GL-Core IMPACT Stock is designed to reduce recoil and improve accuracy.

Address

38 Sherwood Road
Bromsgrove
B603DR

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 5:30pm

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+441527831261

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