Gamo
Gamo is Europe’s biggest manufacturer of airguns and the brand is well-known for offering great value for money. The saying ‘Bang for your bucks’ definitely comes to mind when Gamo is concerned. Read more
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Where’s Gamo made?
The Gamo premises are situated in Barcelona, the capital of Catalunya and the industrial heart of Spain. The air rifles and air pistols of Gamo are sold worldwide and in addition to that, they are one of the biggest suppliers of airgun pellets. Gamo also offers other air rifle associated products, such as rifle scopes and targets.
Gamo started at the end of the nineteenth century as a manufacturer of lead ammunition under the name Antonio Casas S.A. Halfway through the last century, the company specialised in airgun pellets and eventually expanded under the name Industrias El Gamo. It was then, that Gamo started to design and produce airguns. They first did that purely for the Spanish market, but soon started exporting their airguns by popular demand and this is what has made Gamo to the immense company it is now.
When exporting their airguns, Gamo caters for the different markets by making sure all airguns comply to the maximum power levels demanded by law. For example, Gamo ships unrestricted airguns to The Netherlands, while the ones for the German market are restricted to 7.5 joules and airguns going to Hongkong are shipped with their power restricted to a meagre 2 joules. Being able to do this for all their airgun designs, is a big part of Gamo’s success.
This is why Gamo’s are both affordable and good
Every airgun leaving the Gamo premises is completely built in-house. Gamo starts with raw materials. The steel is machined with CNC milling machines and welded with automatic automotive welding equipment, making for tight tolerances and a high level of uniformity. Even the wooden stocks (European walnut and beech) are automatically machined and synthetic parts are moulded locally. The whole process is automated as much as possible following the Industry 4.0 principle, where all technology is working autonomically and in sync, making it possible for automatic adjustments to be made during the manufacturing process, ensuring the highest possible level of uniformity.
When a new airgun is designed, it will be dry-fired at least a 100.000 times to test the quality. Airguns that are being produced are sampled by taking two out of every thousand airguns off the production line and let them endure a torture test of 10.000 dry-firing cycles. Gamo is definitely serious about quality.
Is Gamo innovative?
For sure! Gamo is, for instance, one of the few airgun manufacturers that offers break barrel air rifles with a ten-shot magazine. They’ve got their own trigger designs and even have developed a recoil eliminating scope rail. Let’s have a look at a few of Gamo’s most interesting innovations:
- 10x Quick Shot: Gamo is one of just a few airgun manufacturers offering a magazine on a break barrel airgun. Just break and close the barrel and the magazine will have rotated for a new pellet to be lined up. No need for finicking a pellet into the barrel with your fingers. They even developed a second generation with a horizontally orientated magazine, significantly reducing the hight profile and enabling the rifle scope to be mounted closer to the air rifle.
- Whisper Technology: Under this name, Gamo has developed three different moderators. The Whisper is a moderator, integrated into the barrel sleeve that’s moulded onto the barrel and the Whisper Fusion is of a similar design, but with two chambers. With that, the latter is the quietest moderator Gamo has on offer. Nevertheless, Gamo also features the Whisper Maxxim. That one is also a two-chamber moderator like the Fusion, but now with an incorporated muzzle brake to reduce muzzle rise.
- IGT: This stands for Inert Gas Technology, which basically means a nitrogen filled gasram. A gasram can be compared with the gas struts on the lid of a car trunk. Two airtight tubes that slide into each other, filled with inert gas. Because gas is compressible, it will act like a spring. Nitrogen has bigger molecules than air, making them less likely to leak past the seals. That’s why an inert gas makes for a longer lasting gasram. The advantage of a gasram, compared to a spring, is twofold. Firstly, a spring will twist a bit while compressing and decompressing, but a gasram doesn’t have this torsion, resulting in less loss of power. Secondly, a spring will vibrate after decompressing. Airgunners refer to this as twang or buzz. A gasram doesn’t display such an amount of vibrations, making for a smoother shot cycle, a lower noise level and a less intense recoil experience.
- SAT: The Smooth Action Trigger is a 2-stage trigger with -as the name suggests- a very smooth action. Its light breaking point will allow you to pull the trigger with the least disturbance in the airgun.
- CAT: This is Gamo’s Custom Action Trigger, an adjustable 2-stage trigger where the length of pull can be independently adjusted for both the first and the second stage. This trigger can be adjusted perfectly to how you want it.
- RRR: A very inventive solution is the Gamo Recoil Reducing Rail. Airguns with a spring or gasram -but especially springers- display a normal rearward recoil pattern, but as the spring or gasram bounces back, this is immediately followed by a forward recoil. The combination of these two is the reason rifle scopes have more to endure on an air rifle than on a powder burning one. To reduce that wrecking double recoil, Gamo produces a two-part scope rail with shock-absorbing polymer struts in between. The rear part of the rail can be attached against the rail stop and the struts will reduce the recoil in the front part with almost 100%.
These brands are part of Gamo too
In the Eighties, Gamo has started cooperating with other airgun manufacturers in Great-Britain, Germany, Brazil and the United States. This has resulted in the British BSA Airguns being taking over by Gamo and their production facilities in the UK are where -for example- Gamo’s highly regarded PCP barrels are made. In the United States, Gamo started Gamo USA and recently took over the American Daisy brand. Winchester Airguns is also owned by Gamo, just like BSA Optics.
Buying a Gamo
In our store and, of course, in our webshop, we’ve got a wide range of Gamo products on offer for you. We stock many air rifles and air pistols, but also have a wide variety of Gamo pellets. For those of you who are visiting The Netherlands, come and have a look and let our specialists inform you. You’ll love our store and our coffee! Of course, you can also order directly in our webshop too, as we ship worldwide. Your Gamo then will be securely packed and delivered to your doorstep in no-time.