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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25/08/2026

The Tippmann Arms Aluminium Ambi Charging Handle. It isn't just a shiny upgrade. The extended latch gives you something to actually grab hold of when there's an optic sat over the top, and because it's ambidextrous you can work it from either side without breaking your position or shifting your grip.

Machined from 6061-T6 aluminium in Tippmann's own machine shop, it drops straight in. No gunsmithing, no fitting, no sending it anywhere. Ten minutes on the kitchen table and you're done.

It fits both the .22 LR and .22 WMR M4-22 models (the RCR24 is the exception). In stock now.

Worth saying: the standard handle works. Plenty of people run one happily for years. But if you shoot Mini Rifle, or you're running an LPVO, or you're left handed and tired of reaching over the receiver, this is one of those small changes you notice every single time you pick the rifle up.

What's the first thing you upgraded on your M4-22?

Pick One: the rabbit rifle argument.You get one rimfire for everything. Rabbits at dusk, the odd corvid, general permiss...
23/08/2026

Pick One: the rabbit rifle argument.

You get one rimfire for everything. Rabbits at dusk, the odd corvid, general permission work all year round. Which is it?
22 LR. Quiet, cheap, and completely unbothered by wind at sensible ranges. Subsonic and moderated it is barely louder than the bolt closing, which means the second rabbit in the field has no idea what happened to the first. The trade is trajectory. Past 60 yards you are lobbing it, and you need to know your holdover properly.
17 HMR. Flat, fast and forgiving on range estimation, so a misjudged 80 yards still connects. Devastating on corvids. The trade is noise, cost per shot, and a bullet that the wind pushes around more than people expect at distance.

Both are right. It just depends whether you value quiet and cheap or flat and far.

One rifle only, no cheating with a second cabinet slot. Which one and why?

Most moderators thread onto your barrel. The A-tec Marksman does not, and that is the interesting bit.The Marksman threa...
20/08/2026

Most moderators thread onto your barrel. The A-tec Marksman does not, and that is the interesting bit.

The Marksman threads onto a muzzle brake, and the brake lives on the rifle permanently. Sounds like a small distinction. In practice it means you get a proper recoil reducing brake when the moderator is off, a repeatable mounting interface every time it goes back on, and the brake taking the worst of the gas and heat instead of the threads on your barrel.

A-tec are Norwegian and have been at this a long time. Their stuff is built to be stripped and cleaned rather than binned when it clogs, which is not something you can say about everything on the market. The Marksman sits in their Pro range, cerakoted body and a nitrided brake, and A-tec quote 30 dBC reduction in .338 Lapua Magnum, which tells you what they had in mind when they designed it.

We have it in 30 cal and 6.5 cal.

Worth being clear, the brake is a separate purchase and thread pitch matters. Ring us before you order rather than after.

This is precision rifle and long range kit rather than a stalking mod. Is a brake something you would run full time?

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?

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38 Sherwood Road
Bromsgrove
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Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 5:30pm

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