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 w

ith 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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The sun's setting a bit earlier every night now, which means the night shooting questions have started again. Same one, ...
16/08/2026

The sun's setting a bit earlier every night now, which means the night shooting questions have started again. Same one, mostly: thermal or digital?

Different jobs. Thermal tells you something's there, brilliantly, at silly distances, through a hedge. What it won't reliably tell you is what it is. Digital night vision shows you the animal, and on ground where you need to be certain before the safety comes off, that matters more than raw detection.

The Alpex Pro sits in that camp. Twelve megapixel sensor behind a 50mm F1.8 lens, 4 to 24 times magnification, and a 1200 metre rangefinder built in, so no more juggling a separate LRF in the dark. Side focus and a proper magnification ring with a throw lever, which sounds like a small thing until you've fumbled a menu at 2am.

The bit that sells it, though, is that it works in daylight. It stays on the rifle. No swapping optics in October and re-zeroing, no second scope sat in a drawer. Five zeroing profiles if you do move it between rifles.

Are you a thermal-for-spotting, NV-for-shooting sort, or all-in on one?

Twelfth of August, and for the first time in three years the noises coming off the moors are cautiously positive.You'd h...
12/08/2026

Twelfth of August, and for the first time in three years the noises coming off the moors are cautiously positive.

You'd have to be fairly hard-hearted not to want this one to go well. 2024 was a washout, nests failing through April and May and the second broods going the same way. Last year the heather beetle got going in all that heat and stripped ground bare. Two seasons of estates ringing round and standing days down.

The Countryside Alliance reckons the signs point to the best season since 2023. Signs aren't birds in the bag, mind, and it'll be a different story moor to moor. We'll all know soon enough once the first days have run.

Worth saying out loud: grouse are properly wild. Nobody rears them and turns them out in July, so there's no backstop if the summer goes wrong. It's heather work, predator control, disease watching and weeks of counting, and then you get whatever the moor decided to give you. When the counts say don't shoot, the good moors don't shoot. That part never makes the papers.

We've had a few in this last fortnight getting sorted before heading north. Anyone else off this week, or does your season not start until the first of September?

Nice bit of news landed in our inbox last week.Tippmann Arms is now an official IPSC Strategic Partner for Mini Rifle.If...
11/08/2026

Nice bit of news landed in our inbox last week.

Tippmann Arms is now an official IPSC Strategic Partner for Mini Rifle.

If you've never shot Mini Rifle, the short version is a .22 semi-auto run through practical stages. Cheap ammo, fast, and a proper laugh. It's been growing steadily over here for years without much fanfare, so seeing it get this sort of recognition at world level feels overdue.

Tippmann are also putting money behind competition shooters around the world in the build-up to the next Mini Rifle World Shoot, which is in Buzsák, Hungary in 2028. Plenty of time to get the practice in.

We distribute Tippmann here in the UK, and we've watched this discipline grow from the inside. Abyl Kaium took 20th in the world on a Tippmann at last year's World Shoot, which gives you an idea of what the platform is capable of in the right hands.

Anyone here shot a Mini Rifle match, or is it still on the list?

Moderators can be posted out now, which still feels faintly odd to type after all those years of variations and waiting....
09/08/2026

Moderators can be posted out now, which still feels faintly odd to type after all those years of variations and waiting.

So the question has changed. It is no longer how do I get one. It is which one.

Start with the thread, because this is where most people come unstuck. Your muzzle thread is a specific size and pitch, and getting it wrong means an expensive tube that will not go on the rifle. Half inch UNF, half inch by 28 UNEF, five eighths by 24 UNEF, 14x1, 15x1, 18x1. None of them interchangeable. Not certain which you have? Measure it, or bring the rifle in and we will tell you.

Then match the calibre rating. A moderator is built for a specific bore and pressure. Rimfire kit on a centrefire is not a clever shortcut.

Then think about where the length goes. Over-barrel designs sleeve back over the muzzle and add less overall length. Muzzle-forward puts it all out the front, usually simpler and cheaper, but it changes how the rifle handles.

And expect your point of impact to move when you fit one. Re-zero, every time.

Worth saying: the licensing change did not alter who can hold one. A moderator for a Section 1 rifle still needs the certificate that covers the rifle, and Northern Ireland sits under its own rules.

Wildcat, A-TEC, Ase Utra, Stalon, Tikka and Thomas Lowe Defence on the shelf.

What are you running, and how much did it shift your zero?

Here's a bit of kit that finds more quarry than any rifle you own, and most people spend less on it than they do on a sc...
06/08/2026

Here's a bit of kit that finds more quarry than any rifle you own, and most people spend less on it than they do on a scope they use half as often.

Binoculars. Everyone has a pair. Most people bought them once, twenty years ago, and have not thought about it since.

Worth thinking about, though, because the gap between cheap and expensive is real and it is not where people expect. We stock everything from budget to high-spec, and the honest answer to what the extra money buys is this.

It is not magnification. Everyone assumes it is. It is not.

It is the first and last half hour of the day, when the light is going and the difference between a good pair and a poor pair is whether you can tell what you are looking at. It is edge sharpness, so the outer third of the image is not mush. And it is eye strain, which sounds soft until you have spent six hours glassing and come home with a headache.

For most people a solid mid-range pair is plenty and always will be. If you are out in the margins of the day regularly, that is when the top end starts earning its keep.

What are you glassing with, and would you spend more if you were buying again?

Here's a question that trips up more people than it should. What distance is your rifle zeroed at?Most will say 30 yards...
04/08/2026

Here's a question that trips up more people than it should. What distance is your rifle zeroed at?

Most will say 30 yards. Or 25. Or 50 for a rimfire. Fair enough. But the honest answer is that your rifle is zeroed at two distances, not one.

Here's why. Your scope sits an inch and a half or so above the bore. The pellet starts below your line of sight, climbs up through it, runs along above it for a while, then drops back down through it further out. Two crossings. Everything between them is high. Everything past the second is low.

So a .177 zeroed at 30 yards is also spot on somewhere around 12 or 13 yards, sits above the crosshair through the twenties, and starts falling away sharply past 35. If you have ever shot clean over the top of a rabbit at 20 yards and wondered what on earth happened, that is what happened.

The more useful question is not where am I zeroed. It is over what span am I inside my kill zone. Pick the size of target you actually shoot at, work out the range where your pellet stays within it, and choose the zero that makes that span as long as possible.

Then go and prove it on paper at every five yards. Ballistics apps are a starting point. Your rifle is the authority.

What are you zeroed at, and did you work it out or inherit it from someone?

FX have done something slightly odd with the DRS, and it's the reason this one is worth two minutes of your time.Most mo...
02/08/2026

FX have done something slightly odd with the DRS, and it's the reason this one is worth two minutes of your time.

Most modern P*Ps announce themselves. Bottle slung under the barrel, rails everywhere, looks like it belongs on a bench. Fine if that's your thing. Less useful if you're walking hedgerows all afternoon.

The DRS puts the air reservoir inside the barrel assembly instead. No bottle at all. What you get is a rifle with the slim lines of a traditional sporter that happens to be a regulated P*P underneath.

The MkII is this year's update and the changes are the practical sort. The Air Pressure Barrel system means liner swaps can now be done without degassing the rifle first, which anyone who has emptied a gun just to change a barrel will appreciate. Larger plenums and a reworked barrel inlet for more airflow. And every model now comes with a 30 MOA Picatinny rail as standard, so you are not buying shimmed mounts to claw elevation back.

We've got two in, both .177. The Micro with the 380mm barrel and the Standard with the 500mm.

At sub-12 the extra barrel isn't buying you power. It's buying you handling. Micro for hides, lofts and tight cover. Standard for a steadier hold off a bipod.

Both in-store only, so it's a trip to Bromsgrove. Worth ringing first on 01527 831 261.

Which way would you go, handy or steady?

The non-lead question comes up most days now, and it's almost always followed by "but will it hurt my gun?"Short answer,...
30/07/2026

The non-lead question comes up most days now, and it's almost always followed by "but will it hurt my gun?"

Short answer, probably not. It depends what you buy and what you're shooting it through.

The transition period started on 1 April this year and the full restriction on lead shot lands on 1 April 2029. So there's no need for panic buying, but there is a good case for working out what your gun actually likes now rather than in the last season before the deadline.

Steel is the cheap option and where most people will end up. Standard steel is fine through any gun in proof, but keep it to half choke or less. High performance steel needs the fleur-de-lys steel shot proof mark on the barrels. If your gun hasn't got it, don't.

Bismuth is the answer for older guns, side-by-sides, and anything with tight fixed chokes. It's soft, it patterns much like lead, and it goes through almost anything. It also costs roughly three times what steel does, which is the catch.

Tungsten-based loads sit above both on performance and on price.

Rough rule of thumb: modern over-under, steel. Grandad's side-by-side, bismuth.

Worth saying for the airgun crowd, pellets aren't affected at all, and neither is .22 rimfire.

We've got steel and bismuth on the shelf. What have you settled on?

Almost a fortnight to the Twelfth. Partridge on the first of September, pheasant on the first of October. If your shotgu...
28/07/2026

Almost a fortnight to the Twelfth. Partridge on the first of September, pheasant on the first of October. If your shotgun has been sat in the cabinet since the end of January, this is the week to get it out, not the night before.

Short version of what's worth doing.

Get it out of the slip. Guns that live in a fleece-lined slip all summer come out with rust freckles on the barrels and a stock that's quietly drawn moisture. A cabinet with a bit of air movement beats a slip every time.

Take your chokes out. If yours screw in and they've been left since January, they have a habit of seizing. A seized choke is a gunsmith job, not a Saturday morning job.

Look at the top lever. If it's sitting further left than it used to, the gun is loosening off. Better to know now than in October.

Book the service. Every gunsmith in the country is about to get very busy. August is a bad month to discover yours has a six week wait.

And check your cartridges. Anything that's spent a damp winter in the garage isn't worth the risk over a bird you've waited nine months for.

What's on your pre-season list? Anything we've missed?

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