Gamo (airgun manufacturer)
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| Founded | 1959 |
| Headquarters | Spain |
| Website | www |
Gamo is an airgun manufacturer. The company is based in Spain and is the largest producer of guns and rifles in Europe, and the largest producer of pellets in the world. The company was founded in 1959, as El Gamo, and airgun production first started in 1961. Today Gamo production includes rifles, pistols, ammunition and optics. They produce primarily low end air guns intended for mass market.
When Manganese Bronze Holdings liquidated what remained of the gun division of The Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1986 assets including the logo and the right to use the initials, BSA, were purchased by Gamo who have continued the air rifle business at Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP under the name BSA Guns (UK) Limited.
During the 1970s in the UK El Gamo marketed two air rifles, the Marksman, a conventional rifle with a fitted and already zeroed telescopic sight, and the Paratrooper repeater, a .177 pistol-gripped repeating rifle incorporating a tubular magazine along the top of the cylinder, and using a rising/falling breech mechanism for positioning the pellet.
In 2011 Gamo introduced its IGT(Inert Gas Technology) range. The IGT range replaces a conventional spring powered power plant with a pneumatic gas cylinder or gas ram. IGT models released: Whisper IGT Shadow IGT Rocket IGT G Challenger IGT ViperMax IGT CFR IGT
2011- Socom 1100- A synthetic stock break barrel air rifle slightly more powerful than the full power range. Achieves a velocity of 1100 feet per second. 2011- Whisper IGT- A gas ram air rifle with a noise moderator in synthetic stock. Promoted through by its gas ram technology under the name IGT internationally. In the US the model was launched under the name of Silent Stalker Whisper. With very little emphasis on the gas ram technology.
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