Airgun World – July 2019

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for 2018 and a big investment. What is the

importance of the US market to FX Airguns?

Fredrik: The US market gives me the freedom

to do any crazy gun I want, due to the least

regulation and the biggest potential. We have a

lot of hope and faith that the US will be our

biggest market, so we’ll be very dependent on

it in future. Our plan for the US is simple –

grow like crazy!

Stephen: Thank you, Fredrik. As always, it’s

great to talk to you and I look forward to what

emerges the next time you ‘let your brain go

bananas!’

US AIRGUNS

forums and other things like that where people
talk. A lot of people think that if it’s on the
forum it must be reality, but that’s not
necessarily true, so I had the idea that we
should have a long-range shooting competition
because it’s really hard to argue with the result
of such a public competition. That became
Extreme Benchrest, and FX Airguns has always
done very well. These competitions also push
me to develop better products. I’m a winning
character – I hate to lose!

Stephen: Do you see FX Airguns moving into
big-bore airguns in future?
Fredrik: Maybe; we have the .30 calibre and
I’m very happy with that, and we’re planning a
.35 calibre version of the Impact for late 2019.
If big-bore turns out to be a big enough
market, then maybe we’ll do more, but right
now, it’s not really my cup of tea.

Stephen: FX Airguns is obviously growing

rapidly. Can you give us an idea of your

company’s size?

Fredrik: Including everything, we are over 70

people. Five years ago, we were 16 people!

We have 50 people in Sweden assembling

airguns. We work in groups of 4/5 people for

assembly, so that’s 10 groups. The assembly

process is the same however many groups we

have. So, it’s not that hard to ramp-up the

company size, and of course, we now have 10

people in the US for FX Airguns USA.

Stephen: FX Airguns USA was a new initiative

Testing, testing and more testing.

Every year at the

huge IWA show

in Germany FX

Airguns will have

something new

and exciting to

display.

Fredrik in action at the Extreme

Benchrest tournament in Arizona.