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Pyramyd has announced its 2024 Top Air Rifles. This is a list of the ten best-selling air rifles 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 track them with great interest every year in HAM.
In fact, five out of the top six best-sellers are HAM Gold Award winners too!
First we’ll take a look at the list. Then we’ll move-on to discuss what seems to be happening in the online airgun market….
Pyramyd’s 2024 Top Air Rifles
So here they are, in reverse order, moving down to the most popular.
2024 Top Air Rifles – Winners And Losers
Congratulations are obviously due to Umarex for the Notos! This great little gun was the best-selling air rifle of 2024.
In fact, Umarex placed twice in the Top Ten, as did Air Venturi. Congratulations to both companies!
The Umarex Gauntlet has appeared in Pyramyd’s Top Ten list every year since it was introduced in 2017. That makes it a clear long-term winner for the Arkansas-based company.
The Air Venturi Avenger has also been high in the list every year since it was introduced in 2021. It’s making a good play for long-term favorite status, too.
So now we know the winners, but which products were losers?
Probably the biggest loser was the Benjamin Marauder. This has been in Pyramyd’s Top Ten list for as long as I’ve been keeping track – that’s since 2015. The Marauder has had a great run, but it looks as if that’s now over.
Notable brands that have appeared prominently in past “top selling lists”, but which do not appear here are FX and AirForce Airguns. In both cases, that means it’s two years out of the Top Ten. Will they make it back in 2025?
2024 Top Air Rifles – Market Trends
Let’s remind ourselves that the airgun market has become increasingly fractured between the airguns that are still being sold in big box retail stores and those from online specialist dealers like Pyramyd.
The .177 caliber, Zillion FPS, single shot break barrel air rifle still dominates in the big box retail world. However, if you walk-in to most any big box store, you’ll see that the number of air rifles they display is steadily declining.
Scenes like this may, sadly, belong to the past…
But for Pyramyd’s online sales, the PCP reigns supreme! In 2025, eight out of the top 10 air rifles were PCPs. Only the Red Ryder and the Hatsan 95 remained to represent spring/piston guns.
And – unlike previous years – no multi-pump pneumatics, or CO2-powered guns made the list. Is this the sunset for these power plants? We’ll find out for sure next year, I guess.
Let’s look at the past three years of Pyramyd’s best-selling air rifles.
| Position | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Umarex Notos | Air Venturi Avenger | Air Venturi Avenger |
| 2 | Air Venturi Avenger | Umarex Gauntlet | Umarex Gauntlet |
| 3 | Air Venturi Avenge-X | Gamo Arrow | Daisy Red Ryder |
| 4 | JTS Airacuda Max | Umarex Notos | Seneca Dragonfly Mk 2 |
| 5 | Crosman 3622 | Hatsan Blitz | Benjamin Marauder |
| 6 | Umarex Gauntlet 2 SL | Seneca Dragonfly Mk 2 | Diana Chaser |
| 7 | Gamo Arrow | Benjamin Marauder | FX Impact |
| 8 | Daisy Red Ryder | SIG MCX | AirForce Texan |
| 9 | Hatsan 95 Combo | Daisy Red Ryder | Gamo Swarm Magnum |
| 10 | Seneca Dragon Claw 2 | JTS Airacuda Max | Crosman 362 |
Now let’s take a look back at the results between 2015 and 2017.
| Position | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Wayne Lil Duke | Daisy Red Ryder | Daisy Red Ryder |
| 2 | Black Ops Junior Sniper | Black Ops Junior Sniper | Benjamin Marauder |
| 3 | Umarex Legends MP40 | Gamo Whisper Silent Cat | Uzi BB Submachine Gun |
| 4 | Gamo Whisper Silent Cat | Benjamin Marauder | Remington Tyrant |
| 5 | Benjamin Marauder | Benjamin Trail NP2 | Crosman 1077 |
| 6 | Umarex Steel Force | Crosman 1077 | Stoeger X20S |
| 7 | Gamo Swarm Maxxim | Uzi BB Submachine Gun | Umarex Octane |
| 8 | Daisy Red Ryder | Winchester M14 | Gamo Viper Express |
| 9 | Umarex Gauntlet | H&K MP5-PDW | Diana 34 |
| 10 | Diana Stormrider | Umarex Steel Storm | Air Force Condor SS |
WOW, what a difference we can see across the years!
So that’s the Pyramyd 2024 Top Air Rifles list. Again, thanks to the company for making this information available: it’s a great service for all airgun enthusiasts.
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