It is estimated from anywhere between 4 million and 6 million households in the UK have access to an air gun. In any given week there are around 10,000 used air rifles for sale. At iHunter we looked at over nine thousand listing to see what was the most traded brand of air rifle. What is the most popular model, and what is the most traded calibre. What was the most expensive air rifle listed, we actually had 2 at 88 thousand but we are guessing that was user error.
We all want to know if we are getting value for money when buying anything so we will share some average prices for the traded air rifles. (9000+ listings)
Average Traded Air Rifle Prices
What’s the average traded price for an air rifle?
The average price for a used air rifle is £563.00
What was the most expensive air rifle listed?
There were 2 listed at £5,000, the first one was a Sporstmatch Scimitar, then Whiscombe Fb60 both in .177 calibre.
What was the cheapest listed air rifle?
The cheapest listed air rifle was a BSA Meteor at £25
The Most Traded Calibre
This was very surprising to us and a very close call. The top trader calibre is .177.
- 4326 listed air rifles at .177 Calibre
- 4315 listed air rifles at .22 calibre
The next most traded caliber was the .25 with just 82 listing.
What’s the most traded model of an air rifle?
The most traded model is the Weihrauch HW100 (and the variations). There were over 400 listing for the HW100
Top 20 Traded Air Rifles By Brand / Manufacturer
The top traded air rifles was also a surprise to us, we expected BSA but Weihrauch had more listed secondhand air rifles. We have the amount of listed air rifles by brand and also by average cost.
Manufacturer |
Quantity of Listing |
Average Price |
| Weihrauch | 1378 | £552 |
| BSA | 1252 | £486 |
| Air Arms | 959 | £658 |
| Daystate | 563 | £1051 |
| FX Airguns | 553 | £1177 |
| Gamo | 380 | £266 |
| Webley & Scott | 372 | £360 |
| SMK – Sportsmarketing | 293 | £166 |
| Walther | 293 | £424 |
| Hatsan Arms | 198 | £300 |
| Kral | 197 | £366 |
| Umarex | 185 | £284 |
| Remington | 166 | £164 |
| Crosman | 173 | £177 |
| Theoben | 133 | £672 |
| Sig Sauer | 112 | £309 |
| Diana | 101 | £329 |
| Milbro | 68 | £242 |
| Artemis | 46 | £323 |
| RWS | 10 | £453 |
If you are looking budget air rifle then you would be better looking at SMK, Crosman and the Remingtons. Some off the brands may seem expensive but if you look after them they do retain their value.
Links To Detailed Manufacturers Traded Air Guns
We have broken down the listings for each manufacture so you can see the most traded model of airgun.
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