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From Rags to Riches
For your entertainment we have a real-life tale, and it’s about a gun company. Are you sitting comfortably? a unique self-contained air cartridge
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hile the fi le of ‘rags to rags and then oblivion’ is full of gun manufacturers, very few manage to pull off anything like a Cinderella ending. And yet that is exactly what Staffordshire, UK- based Brocock has achieved and looks set to build upon with a new range of rifl es that will challenge the biggest names in the game. That’s not to say Brocock has been sat too far from the industry’s top table. In fact, its Bantam, Compatto, and more latterly Concept-Lite and Commander models, have long been appreciated by those who take their hunting seriously, including many professional pest controllers, and especially in export markets. However, its new XR range of side-levers promises to take the company further. Brocock’s family tree dates back to a company called Saxby and Palmer which, like many other airgun
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manufacturers of the time, had a great product but little in the way of business acumen or cash to exploit it.
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system to fi re a pellet loaded into the nose. In the early 1980s the design had taken the air gunning scene by storm and yet, by 1989, for one reason or another, sales had started to wane. Bothers Gary and Nigel Silcock bought the liquidated Saxby and Palmer in 1989 and moved into its premises in Birmingham’s old gun centre, renaming the venture as Brocock - a play on words for the brothers Silcock. They continued to develop the air cartridge technology, revising and improving designs and introducing new pistols as well the occasional rifl e. Demand for the new family of
The company made a range of air pistols that were based on a conventional revolver action but used
Brocock air cartridge pistols boomed, helped by a considerable fl air for business shown by the two brothers. Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that for a small number of customers, the enthusiasm was
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