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Today we’re looking at some future air rifles seen at the IWA OutdoorClassics show, 2025.
Why “future air rifles”? Well these are some airguns that interested me and which I imagine (hope?) we will see in the US market in future, although possibly not under the names that we see here.
Actually we’re looking at two manufacturers which offer products as “OEMs”. In other words they take a basic concept that they have developed and work with another company to customize it into a specific product that will not be sold under their own brand name.
These companies are Reximex and Snowpeak.
Reximex is a Turkish manufacturer. It's located in the city of Konya and sells product under its own name in more than 60 countries, also as an OEM manufacturer.
In our heading photograph at the top of this story, Hüseyin Ferhan Gona – the company’s International Sales Manager – shows me a new product called the Reximex Lieva. I found the Lieva interesting and would not be surprised to see it sold either as a Reximex-branded product, or under another name, in future.
So what’s interesting about the Lieva? well, it’s a lever action PCP air rifle but in an unusual – upside down – configuration. It’s the model at the bottom of the display shown in the photo above.
It’s upside down because the HPA tube is on top, the barrel beneath it and the magazine in the bottom of the gun. I was fascinated by the innovative thinking that went into this design!
Hüseyin told me that the Lieva can be available in three calibers: .177, .22 and .25 cal. Power levels are up to about 17 Ft/Lbs and 36 Ft/Lbs in both .22 and .25. We can see the top-mounted HPA tube with end-mounted pressure gauge in the photograph below.
We see the magazine mounting position in the photograph below. Reximex has produced some good airguns, as we found when we tested the Throne Compact Gen 2 recently. It was a HAM Gold Award winner.
Then, of course, there’s Snowpeak airguns. Snowpeak is the “king of the OEMs”. This Chinese company is almost certainly the world’s largest airgun manufacturer. Here is where we find many of the future air rifles to be seen at IWA OutdoorClassics 2025.
Below we see the Snowpeak stand.
Snowpeak has a never-ending array of new airgun designs! As an OEM, they specialize in manufacturing products for – and in co-operation with – other airgun companies. As usual, they have an interesting new range of products.
The air rifle that interested me most is shown by the arrow on the wall display below. It’s called the “Max1”.
The Max 1 is very similar in appearance to the outstandingly-successful, HAM Gold Award-winning Umarex Zelos. But on steroids…
It has two air tubes. One around the barrel, plus one below. That makes a total air capacity of 550 cc, very large for a “tube type” PCP air rifle. In addition, there’s two plenums (should that be “plena” if we follow the Latin). They are shown by the arrows in the photograph below.
Here is a side view of the action.
But that’s not the only new product I saw at Snowpeak. There’s multiple new PCPs in the AP900/AP1000 range. These are somewhat more conventional that the Max1. One is shown in the photograph below.
Snowpeak has another interesting innovation that will – I believe – be rolled-out among a wide range of the company’s models. This is a simple, but effective “ratchet-type” system that holds the magazine in place as you load a pellet.
Arrowed in the photograph below, it seemed to be a step forward in loading pellets into airgun magazines.
But Snowpeak has even more new models! These include wood-stocked versions of the existing P35 range of bullpup PCPs as we see below.
So that’s some future air rifles to be seen at the IWA OutdoorClassics show, 2025. I hope that you find this interesting. Look out for them to appear in future!
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that lever action. I was a huge fan of the Sumatra lever action. I would love to see more lever action style pcp rifles.
