Competing isn’t a marketing move — it’s how Wolfiek Group stays loyal with the community it serves. This year that meant lining up at the Springville, Utah shooting range for RMAC 2026 – the Rocky Mountain Airgun Challenge.
It’s one of the toughest air rifle competitions on the calendar, with Nate Wilkening, Francisco and Andrés Eizayaga on the firing line – not as sponsors – but as competitors under the same rules as everyone else.
Wolfiek Group Shoots – RMAC 2026 As A Benchmark
The Garth Killpack Shooting Range in Hobble Creek Canyon just outside Springville once again garnered much of the attention of the global competitive airgun scene from June 23-28.
RMAC is part of the Utah Airguns event ecosystem and is so much more than another date on the calendar. It is a format that includes 100-Yard benchrest, precision events, the Speed Challenge, and the Big Bore/Slug Challenge. It all takes place in a multi-disciplinary setting where the same shooter can go from the absolute stillness of the bench to the dynamic pressure of the clock in a matter of hours.
That structure makes Rocky Mountain Airgun Challenge more than a competition. It makes it a measuring stick. What is tested there is not an isolated skill, but a complete system — platform, ammunition, optics, wind reading and the ability to execute when the margin for error disappears.
For anyone following benchrest targets or the evolution of the competition air rifle, RMAC offers one of the clearest snapshots of where the sport is heading. In a niche where regulators, barrels and slugs are evolving faster than product catalogs can document, six days of open-range competition tell us more about the state of the art than any seasonal launch.
Wolfiek Group Shoots – RMAC 2026 Technical Disciplines
Each RMAC Challenge discipline tests the shooter from a different angle. The 100-Yard benchrest contest measures repeatability of a whole package – stock, barrel, ammunition and optics – against benchrest targets under fully controlled conditions.
Traditional precision adds hold and positioning.
The Big Bore and Slug Challenges takes big calibers and heavy slugs out to where wind is no longer a factor. It becomes THE factor. And time, of all variables, is the least forgiving. The Eizayagas selected the Speed Challenge as their discipline for 2026.
The Speed Challenge does not reward the shooter who simply fires fast. It rewards the one who does not need to correct.
Each miss carries a double cost – the point that isn’t scored and the seconds that are lost – so the format eventually measures something deeper than speed. It show how well a shooter controls their equipment and how much they still have to negotiate with it.
In Squad 5 of the Speed Qualification, Francisco Eizayaga finished second: 9 wins, 90 points, 8 bonus, 98 total score.
For anyone who knows the format, the telling figure isn’t the total but the ratio. Each duel won adds 10 points; the bonus, however, only comes when a series closes clean, with no wasted shots and no dead time. A shooter can rack up wins by capitalizing on opponents’ mistakes and still finish with a solid score but few bonuses.
The opposite is harder to fake: 8 bonuses out of 9 wins means Francisco set the pace in nearly every series, rather than waiting for his rival to falter on their own.
The equipment detail adds context to that result. Francisco competed with an EDgun Fenix .22, shooting 22-grain pellets made by AEA.
That setup broke from the field’s dominant trend: most Speed Challenge competitors were shooting Skout-brand, semi-auto equipment. In a format where the margin for error is razor-thin and every correction costs both points and seconds, sustaining that level of performance outside the majority configuration speaks as much to the shooter as to the rifle.
In a knockout-duel format, that’s the difference between winning rounds and controlling them.
Wolfiek Group is no stranger to major air gun competitions in the US. Its presence at RMAC continues experience in high-level events like Extreme Benchrest. There pure benchrest and PRS are two very different sides of competitive air gun shooting – the most static and the most dynamic.
That background is important here: the Rocky Mountain Airgun Challenge doesn’t just want to perform well in isolation. It tests the entire system and for a brand like Wolfiek Group, competing in this environment helps validate which products are truly ready for the conditions that define the sport.
Wolfiek Group As An Ecosystem For The Modern Shooter
Wolfiek Group has formally existed since 2012, but its technical foundation goes further back: years of direct work with PCP manufacturers that help explain its particular position in the market today (to read more).
The company is based in Barcelona but operates directly in America and Europe, meaning a buyer in Texas, Oslo or Buenos Aires finds technical support without battling language barriers or time zones. That expertise is organized around the variables an advanced shooter really values: caliber, power, autonomy, regulator, barrel, ammunition, distance, wind, ergonomics, discipline, budget and experience.
Wolfiek Group’s presence at RMAC 2026 serves as an audit. To compete where performance is measured in real time, with public scores and without conditions, means putting one’s own technical judgment to the same test as any customer.
And the community that is formed around a brand like this is not sustained by declared enthusiasm; it is built on verifiable configurations, accessible results, and decisions made with competition data.
What RMAC 2026 Confirms About The Current State Of Airgun Shooting
The 2026 Challenge sends clear signals beyond single results.
Slugs continue to gain on traditional pellets in distance disciplines. Big bore and long range are no longer peripheral categories, but front and center on the competitive agenda. Equipment is getting more and more specialized by discipline — what performs in the Speed Challenge is rarely optimal for Big Bore — and that specialization reflects, within airgun shooting, the influence PRS has had on the centerfire world.
For Wolfiek Group, that is the point of competing, rather than simply watching from the sidelines: in a sport where authority stems from practical experience, rather than the size of one’s stock, the best way to find out which set-ups hold up under pressure is to compete under the same rules as everyone else.
The results at Springville were reflected on the scoreboard, but what was learnt there will shape the technical decisions for next season.
Pandora PRS: Wolfiek Group’s Other Front in 2026
The Rocky Mountain Airgun Challenge was not the only move of the semester. At IWA 2026, Wolfiek introduced the Pandora PRS — developed together with AEA Airguns, with a fill pressure of up to 500 bar and available in six calibers, including Wolfiek’s own 7 mm Wolfiek caliber.
Hard Air Magazine has already covered the rifle and the caliber in detail: the launch at IWA, the technical analysis of PANDORA, and the progress of the 7 mm Wolfiek. The rifle is available at Wolfiek and through AEA Airguns, and there is also active discussion in the community here.
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