Now Pyramyd has announced its 2025 Top Air Pistols. This is a list of the ten best-selling air pistols sold by the company throughout last year. Thanks to the company for making this information available!
As always, Pyramyd’s year-end best-seller lists are a fascinating peek into the sales of the “World’s biggest airgun dealer”. When compared to previous years, they’re also a guide to the changes that are happening in the airgun industry. That’s why we have been tracking them with great interest every year in Hard Air Magazine since way back in 2015.
First we’ll take a look at the list. Then we’ll move-on to discuss the trends Pyramyd’s data shows us about the online airgun market. That’s really interesting, too…
Pyramyd’s 2025 Top Air Pistols – The Top Three
The top-selling air pistol was the Glock 17 Gen 4.
Umarex has been very successful over the years selling a whole range of air-powered Glock pistols. The Glock 17 placed second in Pyramyd’s list in 2024, seventh in 2023 and fourth in 2022. So it’s a consistent winner among air pistol shooters.
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In second place was the Colt Single Action Army.
Another Umarex product! Versions of the Colt wheel gun have been popular over many years, so it’s no surprise to see it again here.
The Colt Peacemaker ranked third in Pyramyd’s 2024 list, while the SAA was fourth in 2023 and second in 2022. Another very consistent-selling product.
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The Ruger Mark IV appears in third place.
As we concluded in our February 2022 HAM review, “the Ruger Mk IV pellet pistol is a great little gun! It’s a bargain for $50 and a HAM Gold Award winner.” (And it’s still selling for $55 today).
“Accuracy is very creditable, FPS surprisingly snappy and appearance is a pretty fair reproduction of the rimfire original. Yes, you need to accept that this is a single shot, break barrel airgun, not a semi-auto. But there are benefits of their own in this – like no need for CO2 cartridges.”
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2025 Top Air Pistols – The Full Results
Let’s look at the 2025 results, plus those from the two preceding years.
| Position | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glock 17 Gen 4 | Crosman 2240 | Crosman 2240 |
| 2 | Colt SAA | Glock 17 | Hatsan Jet II |
| 3 | Ruger Mark IV | Colt Peacemaker | Springfield Armory 1911 |
| 4 | Glock 19X | Hatsan Jet | Colt SAA |
| 5 | Hatsan Velox | Beeman P17 | Hatsan Jet I |
| 6 | Diana Bandit | Springfield 1911 | Colt 1911 |
| 7 | Dan Wesson 715 | Hatsan Velox | Glock 17 |
| 8 | Diana Airbug | Glock 19X | Dan Wesson 715 |
| 9 | Glock 19 Gen 3 | Glock 19 | Ruger Mark IV |
| 10 | Crosman 2240 | Ruger Mark IV | Beeman P17 |
Umarex even exceeded the performance it demonstrated with Pyramyd’s 2025 top-selling air rifles. This time the company took no less than five slots in the pistol 2025 Top Ten, including One, Two and Three. Wow!
Umarex is the US distributor for Colt,Glock, Ruger and other brand-name airguns.
Behind Umarex, Diana achieved two out of this pistol Top Ten. Crosman, Hatsan and ASG (the Dan Wesson distributor) gained one place each.
2025 Top Air Pistols – Market Trends
In this 2025 list, seven of the pistols were CO2-powered. This is a slight increase from 6 in 2024 and 2023. (There were seven in the 2022 list and before that it was eight or nine every year).
So, CO2 power continues to be the primary power choice for air pistols. Two – the Hatsan Velox and Diana Bandit – are PCPs and one – the Ruger – is spring/piston powered.
In other words, there’s no great technology swing similar to that which we have seen with air rifles over the years with the change from spring/piston to PCP powerplants.
Six of these pistols are ” firearms replicas”, while four are not based on any existing firearm.
However there has been a change in the number of magazine-fed guns. In 2025 it was up to eight out of the Top Ten. In previous years it’s generally been seven.
The difference is primarily due to the long-running, single shot Beeman P17 disappearing from the list. In 2025, the Ruger Mark IV and Crosman 2240 are the only single-loaders in the list.
2025 Top Air Pistols – The Long Perspective
Now let’s take a look back at Pyramyd’s lists of top-selling air pistols between 2015 and 2017.
| Position | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Wayne Peacemakers | John Wayne Peacemakers | Colt Peacemaker |
| 2 | John Wayne 1911 | Beeman P17 | Crosman 2240 |
| 3 | Beretta 92A1 | Tangfolio Witness 1911 | John Wayne Peacemakers |
| 4 | Crosman C11 | Crosman 2240 | Tangfolio Witness 1911 |
| 5 | SIG SAUER P320 | Crosman C11 | Umarex Legends M712 |
| 6 | Umarex Uzi Carbine | Beretta 92A1 | Crosman 1322 |
| 7 | Remington 1875 | ISSC M.22 | Legends P08 Blowback |
| 8 | Beeman P17 | Beretta PX4 | Beretta PX4 |
| 9 | Umarex Steel Storm | Umarex legends M712 | Beeman P17 |
| 10 | Crosman 2240 | SIG SAUER P226 | Crosman Vigilante |
So what do we see?
Although the power sources and general ratio of replicas has remained the same, only one airgun remains in the 2025 list – just – from the Top Ten of 2015. That’s the classic Crosman 2240 bolt action, single shot, CO2-powered pistol.
The 2240 is a survivor, that’s for sure. In 2025 it’s the only air pistol here from the Iconic Outdoor Group (Daisy, Gamo, Crosman, Benjamin and their sub-brands). Crosman held three spots in 2015, two places in 2017 and two in 2017.
Again – just as with air rifles – we see a decline in market share over the years for Iconic Outdoor Group brands, at the expense of – primarily – Umarex USA.
So that’s the Pyramyd 2025 Top Air Pistols list. Again, thanks to the company for making this information available: it’s a great service for all airgun enthusiasts!
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