Firstly, I would like to thank Pyramyd for not only holding the 2026 event, but also for sharing details of the air rifles, riflescopes and pellets used by the competitors. This information is like “gold dust” for many enthusiastic airgunners.
With 240 registered competitors, there’s obviously a TON of information here. So I’ve grouped this analysis into segments, with separate posts for the Field Target and Benchrest competitions.
Today we’re looking at Field Target…
Top Field Target Equipment At 2026 Pyramyd Cup – Classes
Airgun Field Target competitions are arranged with shooters grouped in five classes (or categories), based on the different equipment configurations they use. All classes shoot at the same targets and have the same course of fire. But the scores are recorded separately for fairness.
There was a total of 115 registered competitors for the 2026 Pyramyd Cup Field Target competition. As usual, the overwhelming majority of FT shooters – in this case 58% of them – shoot in the Hunter PCP class.
Below. Todd Hatfield was shooting in the Hunter PCP class with his Nightforce-scoped RAW. How do we know? He’s sitting on a bucket to shoot!
Here’s how the full range played out…
For simplicity, the following analysis is based on the overall total number of Field Target competitors. It would have been too complex – and I felt offer little value – to break the analysis into each of the five classes.
Top Field Target Equipment At 2026 Pyramyd Cup – Air Rifles
Twenty-one types of air rifles were used in the 2026 Pyramyd Cup Field Target competition.
Interestingly, given the origins of the sport being in England, this event was dominated by English-manufactured guns.
Air Arms and Daystate both had 18 users. However if we include the 3 guns from Daystate’s associated company BRK (formerly Brocock), Daystate had the most users with 18% of the total guns in use at the event. That’s even though the company only manufactures PCPs, while Air Arms produces both PCP and spring piston-powered airguns.
As we can see, RAW, Thomas and FX were also popular choices.
Below. Dustin Harding was competing with a Daystate Revere. Given that he is the Marketing Manager for Athlon Optics, we can probably make a fair guess about the type of scope he is using!
Top Field Target Equipment At 2026 Pyramyd Cup – Riflescopes
When it comes to scopes, there were 15 manufacturers used by the FT competitors.
As we can see, Hawke Sport Optics was the most popular manufacturer with 29 of the company’s products in use in this competition. Again that’s interesting as Hawke is also an English company.
Close behind was Sightron with 28 users.
Between them Hawke and Sightron had 49% – almost half – of all the scopes in use in the Field Target competition.
Above. Paul Porch was using a March scope on his Thomas air rifle.
Top Field Target Equipment At 2026 Pyramyd Cup – Pellets
But when it comes to pellets for Field Target use, JSB clearly rules the roost! No less than 62 competitors were using JSB-branded pellets.
However – as is well known – JSB also manufactures pellets for Air Arms, Daystate and FX Airguns on an OEM basis. On adding these all together, JSB-manufactured pellets were used by no less than 82% of Field Target competitors.
Below. Karen Reis was shooting 8.44 Grain JSB pellets through her Thomas/Sightron rig in the WFTF PCP class.
Tomorrow, we’ll make a similar analysis for the airguns, scopes and pellets used in the Benchrest competition at the 2026 Pyramyd Cup.
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