The first annual Daystate/BRK Experience Days event took place on 8 and 9 July 2024 at the Oakedge Shooting Ground in Staffordshire, England.
So what was it like? The answer is that a great time was had by all. The organizers have already proclaimed the concept a huge success and announced that in 2025 it will be back, but even bigger and better!
Airgun enthusiasts from across the United Kingdom took part in the July Daystate and BRK Experience – an extravaganza of shooting, workshops and presentations – at Oakedge Shooting Ground in Staffordshire.
More than 150 shooters took advantage of the opportunity to try out the entire Daystate and BRK ranges of rifles, on targets out to 100 Meters.
There was a little of the expected “traditional English weather”, but it didn’t dampen spirits, or last long!
There was even some sunshine, ordered specially by the company for the Daystate/BRK Experience Days…
More than 7,000 pellets were fired at the event. That works-out to be over 45 shots per person, so it’s clear that everyone was able to achieve some quality trigger time on the range.
Guidance and advice were on hand from Extreme Benchrest expert Chris Jensen, who travelled to the event from Airguns of Arizona, as well as members of the Daystate and BRK Airgunners’ Support Pack (ASP).
That’s Chris above and on the right, below, checking-out the 100 Yard targets.
Below, Chris hit the smallest, 1/2-Inch spinner at 109 Yards!
“This was a phenomenal event,” Chris told me. What I really remember is so many smiles on people’s faces!”
“To me, coming from Arizona, it was a pleasure to man the FAC Station with Ian Price. We were able to show and tell attendees about shooting airguns at FAC power levels (that’s beyond the normal UK legal airgun limit of 12 Ft/Lbs) and what it’s like to shoot airguns in the USA and at Extreme Benchrest.”
BTW, Chris confessed to me that he loved the British beer but really felt that his first taste of mushy peas will be his last!
In addition, Airgun World and The Airgun Show’s Mat Manning and Rich Saunders delivered presentations on how to decoy pigeons and corvids and how to get a shooting permission.
For the more technically minded the Sub 12 Airgunners team was on hand to answer tuning questions. That’s them above, with Jake Hayes on the left.
Below. Want to see an Alpha Wolf in pieces and learn how it works? Go ahead…
There was also the opportunity to review and discuss legacy Daystate airguns, below. To reinforce this, Tony Belas also made a presentation on the history of the company and its airguns.
A Red Squirrel Conservation Team was there to help raise awareness of the threat posed by grey squirrels and how to control them.
If all that wasn’t enough, every attendee was presented with a goodie bag and discount code to spend at the Daystate and BRK store.
“Everyone had a great time. There were plenty of guns to shoot and lots of opportunity to chat to the experts and with fellow airgun enthusiasts,” said Tony Belas.
“The 2025 Daystate/BRK Experience Days will be even bigger and better.” Tony told us. “We’re already looking at larger venues to bring the two-day event to more shooters.”
Get ready for next year!
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Looks like it was a blast. Similar weather we've been having for the last little bit, rain and humid
yes a very rare sighting of Jake 
it was a fantastic event met some amazing people and made some new friends, we had a great time me and Jake are very proud to say we where involved in the experience days and are really looking forward to see what Daystate can come up with to top this one, it was such a good event it will be tricky but i am sure they will manage 
all the team from brk ds was extremely approachable by all attendees and everyone was getting involved, Chris is definitely not a fan of mushy peas. I may post him a tin of them….. yes you hear correctly you can buy them in a tin 
The high power range was proving to be a big hit with everyone, next years show will be even bigger and better if thats possible 
