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I have a Crosman Vantage. It’s a lot of fun, but I’m still working on finding the right hold/pellet for it. Put about 400 pellets through it a couple of days ago. The hold sensitivity is frustrating. It will hit a pop can pretty good out to 20 yards with open sights and cheap ammo.
I’m sure I’ll get the hold sooner or later, within the next 500 rounds I’d say.
It HAS taken one mouse, but that’s about it.
I’ve got a Crosman 2240 with 2-12 pistol scope atop a steel breech and tipped with a very nice carbon fiber muzzle brake from TKO which I like very much.
Lotta fun plinking with it. Pretty dead nuts accurate. More accurate that I am, that’s for sure.
If I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket I’d do a little more work to it, but as it is I’ve got enough things to waste my money on.
My uncle left me his S&W 78G (.22 cal CO2) pistol after he passed away in 2000. I shot it a couple of times that year but then is sat in its original box until this fall. In September I totally stripped it, cleaned it (it wasn’t dirty at all), and resealed it after all these years (all the o-rings were bad and were replaced with urethane rings). It’s awesome to shoot now. It’s a replica of S&W 41 (22 LR). It’s hefty and sweet in hand; accurate too!
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This is my pigeon and seagull eradicator…
It’s a Crosman American Classic Pistol .177 w/ a Crosman stock along w/ custom laminate furniture. It’s topped of with a cheap BSA red dot.I had never seen these before until I saw your post a few weeks ago, but it looked quite portable if the stock came off which got me curious and I started looking in to them a bit. As it turns out these have quite a following and have tons of after market parts available so I went looking for one that met my requirements and was lucky enough to find this one:
It’s a discontinued 2289g that I found on the secondary market. I chose this model because it has the removable stock that releases with a button instead of screws and it has a slightly more comfortable front stock compared to the 13xx models.
It already came with several upgrades like a polished trigger, adjustable hammer spring, steel breach, silencer, red dot sight and a few other minor thingies and this saved me a ton of money compared to buying everything new.
It really is a blast to shoot, no recoil at all and pretty accurate too up to 15 meters or so (I haven’t been able to try it on longer distances yet). I’m gonna toy with it some more to give it a bit more power and I’ll probably replace the red dot sight with a scope, but I’m really glad I got this one.
So thanks for sharing Puinsai, I’m gonna have a lot of fun with this
If I ever win the lottery I’ll have to get me one of those :rolleyes:
Cleaned up the trigger and lightened it a bit more and drilled out the transfer port on the 2289 today, it’s supersmooth now and penetrates both sides of a thick tin can from 15 yards as well as 12mm thick pine-wood ( with 12 pumps). I was gonna do the flat valve & piston mod but I don’t think it’s really necessary to be honest so I’ll just leave it like this for now.
Does anyone have any recommendations for an affordable but decent pistol scope perhaps? If possible one that’s short enough so it won’t get in the way with loading too much.
Also, some slightly better pics:
Here Comes The BOOM said: ↑
Does anyone have any recommendations for an affordable but decent pistol scope perhaps?
A Leapers Bugbuster is a common choice for an inexpensive, compact and lightweight setup on a 2289 (back packer).Sent from my SM-N920W8 using Tapatalk
pumpmaster said: ↑
A Leapers Bugbuster is a common choice for an inexpensive, compact and lightweight setup on a 2289 (back packer).Sent from my SM-N920W8 using Tapatalk
Thanks for the tip!It’s pretty difficult to get on my side of the pond though, not to mention expensive (over 180 US$ incl. shipping). I’ll have a buddy in the US look for a better deal.
I also came across the POA 2X7X32 which is readily available here in EU, does anyone have experience with one of those perhaps?
I keep going back and forth on owning pellet guns. Here in Canada we are only allowed to go up to 495 fps without a valid PAL (possession and acquisition license). If I’m going to go through the trouble of getting a PAL I’m not going to go out and buy a pellet gun that shoots higher than 495 fps. I’m going to go out and buy a real steal gun or rifle.
I’ve owned Hatsan’s, Crosman’s, Daisy’s ……… all sold for now. I’m not a big fan of pumpers as my shoulder can’t justify pumping those dang things 10 times for every shot I take. I prefer repeaters, semi or full auto’s. As for rifles, I prefer the break barrels, again because of the shoulder thing.
Currently I’ve been getting into Umarex pistols. Have a PX4 Storm CO2 with blowback. Chews up the CO2 quite quick. Doesn’t get used much because of that. The drop off on the fps is huge. I also have a Umarex CP99 CO2 with no blowback. I decided to go no blowback cause of the problem I have with the PX4. I love the CP99, mags are cheap and the CO2 goes into a holder that is separate from the gun.
Check out this guys youtube channel …
I’ve took a stupid amount of pidgeon and English sparrows with a humble Crosman 760. Even the occasional squirrel. I love that cheap little thing, smoothbore and all.
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The latest one, a Slavia 631.Wow, my dad’s got one! It’s the first gun I was shooting in my life. At years of 5, I was killing 9/10 frogs, small birds and mice around my dad’s cottage. The trigger is sensitive like feather ant man it’s power… My dad still has it, still use it and enjoy it.
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If I’m going to go through the trouble of getting a PAL I’m not going to go out and buy a pellet gun that shoots higher than 495 fps. I’m going to go out and buy a real steal gun or rifle.I’ve owned Hatsan’s, Crosman’s, Daisy’s …
As a Canadian enthusiast I often hear this from inexperienced shooters. All I can say is that once you’ve handled and shot something like an Air Arms, Weirauch or Steyr your misconceptions about pellet guns would change dramatically. The build quality and precision of many quality air rifles will rival that of many “real guns”.
I used to get a chuckle when I’d take my FT prepped Air Arms EV2 out of its case at a range and watch seasoned shooters line up to ask questions as they too had previously written off all air rifles as cheap BB guns.Sent from my SM-N920W8 using Tapatalk
Air Rifle is an Olympic sport (well, 2…men and women). Women’s Air is actually the first medal given out at every Olympics.
I have yet to see a firearm of any price group as well as the average Anschutz or Feinwerkbau precision air rifle…
They’re the kind of thing where….if the gun can’t put 60 4.5mm pellets through a ~4.7mm hole, you replace it.
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Just bought a couple of air rifles. A Hatsan Model 95 Vortex .22 for me, and a Daisy Buck for my 5 year old son. We are having lots of fun target shooting together, and we’ll be rabbit hunting together soon!
After many years of powder-based firearms (except for a Daisy BB gun many years ago:), I got my first rifle, also a Hatsan Model 95 Vortex .22 a couple weeks ago. I’ve been using RWS Domed and Crosman Premier hollow-points to practice with and have been impressed with its accuracy out to 30 yards. I’m pretty sure it will work well hunting small game and pests, although I haven’t used it for that yet. I don’t know if the novelty will wear off, but so far I enjoy shooting it.
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