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I was very skeptical on purchasing this gun. About 5 guys told me it was well worth the money, and was very accurate. So I took a 50 dollar coin and flipped it. I guess I lost but won a gun. So what now? I tried many different pellets through this gun. All of them shot fairly well. Then I found some Straton pellets. If i did my part, I was able to shoot 5 pellets into a half to 3/4 inch at 40 yards. It is THAT accurate with the straton pellets. I tried other pellets, but accuracy was not near as good. At 20 yards I could put 5 pellets in a 2 inch circle. In order to achieve this kind of accuracy, I had to use my porch rail and a pillow on top of it to hold the gun steady. I am totally impressed with this gun. I pump 6 times for 20 yards and 10 times for 40 yards. Pros. . . 1. Very accurate with the correct pellet. fairly accurate with most pellets. What I mean by fairly accurate is a 5 shot group in 1 inch circle at 10 yards/meters. This will satisfy most people. 2. It is easy to pump. Was not to hard to pump for me. 3. I like the weight. . .It is heavy enough to hold steady but light enough to not fatigue your arms. 4. Pellets load in easy. The chamber is exposed, so the pellets are very easy to place in the chamber. You may have to work just a little when you close the bolt. Why? because the head of the pellet will sometimes get caught on the screw that holds the barrel on the gun. I left the head up with the skirt of the pellet. If you try to jam the pellet in the gun with the bolt (which you can), you may damage the pellet. This will make the accuracy of the gun poorer, because the pellet has been damaged. 5. Rear sight is adjustable fairly nice. Though I do not like the windage adjustment, because I think it is a little "funky" and cheap, the elevation adjustment was really nice. 6. Rear sight has both v and peep sight. That was nice. Cons. . . 1. The rear sight is funky. the windage is very poor adjustment. You actually twsit the sight left or right for the windage adjustment. I was not impressed by that. With that said, I had actually very little windage adjustment. It was factory true. 2. Elevation control. Out of the box, I was hitting about 6 inches high at 10 yards. I could not move the sight down far enough to bring my pellets closer to the Bullseye. I ended up taking a pop can and cutting my own sight out of the thin metal and using it for a sight. Then I was able to bring the Point of impact down to about 1 inch above the Bullseye at 10 yards. This satisfied me. 3. Plastic grip seems to be a little loose. NOT much, but just a little . It is not a deal breaker. 4. Trigger is not the best, but what can you expect from a cheap gun? It is a lot better than a lot of other Pellet guns out there on the market. Overall. . . For a gun like this, I am totally impressed. I feel that if I did my part,and I had all my T's crossed and I's dotted, I could possibly MOA with this gun with the right pellet. The Stratons were absolutely amazing through this pistol. 25 yards gave me (at one time) 3 pellets almost in the exact same hole. Other pellets gave me groups that I was very happy with too. Imagine a 3/4 inch CTC (or less) at 10 yards with most pellets I tried. The power is there for you. The accuracy, is there for you. The reliability is there for you. You do your part, it will do its part. For 50 dollars, really, how can one lose? It is Amazing for me and well worth the money. It is hands down, one of the best shooting guns I have ever had for the money. You can spend 3 times the money, but you probably will not get the accuracy this pistol has.

This air pistol worked amazing right out of the box. I added the optional rifle stock handle 1399. One small adjustment to the site, and I was able to shoot my next 10 rounds into a quarter size group at 10 yards. I looked at several more powerful options in the pellet rifle range, however they were impractical for the small space where I needed to use it. After firing a total of 30 rounds I felt comfortable enough with it's performance to say that this was a good purchase. Later this evening I was able to dispatch a rat in my kitchen. I used crosman piranha pellets and pumped 10x. So my best problem is taking care of, and now I have a fun pellet gun. I will probably convert back to the regular pistol grip for general use.

NICE AIR PISTOL: GREAT ACCURACY AND POWER ON JUST 5 PUMPS (CROSSMAN HOLLOW POINT AND POINTED PELLETS). BUILD QUALITY SEEMS GOOD, DID NOT SEE A PROBLEM WITH "SLOPPY PUMP HANDLE" LEVER AND JUST MOVE HAND FORWARD SLIGHTLY TO AVOID "PINCHING" DURING PUMPS. IRON SIGHTS ARE PLASTIC (AS IS THE BREACH) AND WINDAGE ADJUSTMENT ONE MUST LOOSEN A SCREW AND MOVE SIGHT OVER BY HAND (IE A TRIAL AND ERROR PROCEDURE). HOWEVER (A BIG HOWEVER) - THE ONLINE PICTURE IS OF A USA MANUFACTURED GUN, THE GUN RECIEVED WAS MADE IN CHINA WITH PAINTED (NOT ETECHED) MARKINGS AND DROPPED THE "AMERICAN" FROM PRODUCT NAME. SO, I SPOKE WITH CROSMAN AND INDEED TRUE THEY HAVE MOVED ALL GUN MANUFACTURING (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PCP MODELS) TO CHINA. THERE ARE STILL AN INVENTORY AT VARIOUS ONLINE RELTAILERS THAT HAVE THE USA ONE, BUT IN REALITY THE SAME GUN. AGAIN DO NOT FIND FAULT WITH THIS PISTOL AND HAVE NOT DECIDED WHETHER TO SEND IT BACK AND GET A USA VERSION JUST FOR PRINCIPLE SAKE AND PURCHASE A USA MARKED ONE ELSEWHERE. I MEAN, HOW HARD IS IT TO LABEL THE PRODUCT CORRENTLY ON AMAZON.

The item is pretty quiet, on par with other BB/pellet guns. I expected it to be as flimsy as the rifle version, but the pistol seems to be made to a higher quality. I got it for pest control, and for that it’s worth every penny.

I purchased this gun for just shooting in my back yard. I also wanted to shoot it with my grandson to teach him gun safety and how to shoot. I quickly found out that I loved the pistol. It is fun to shoot and where else can you practice your shooting skills for about a penny a shot. The gun right out of the packing materials was very accurate. I could hit a target 20 yards away as well as repeatedly shoot a Coke can at the same distance. I generally use 5 to 6 pumps for each shot. The manual recommends no more than 10 pumps or you might damage the pressure tube or the seal. Here are some things that I did that were simple and I found helped while shooting the pistol: • After using the pistol for only a short period I noticed the internal pump lever was rubbing the side of the pump channel. I had purchased some Crosman gun oil so I lubricated the pump pins, pump seal and the O-ring seal that touches the back of the pellet. Pumping the pistol was easier and the pellet seemed to shoot with more force. It only takes just a drop or two or oil placed in the right positions. • I had trouble seeing the sights properly. I had a white paint pen that I used to label my rifle magazines and I took it and put white on the rear of the front sight and I drew a 3 sided box around the rear sight aperture. It made a big difference in my ability to see the sight and to shoot better. • I saw that there was a rifle stock available for the pistol from Crosman. I purchased it from a website at a good price and installed it onto the pistol. It made the gun easier to pump and improved my accuracy even more. I am 6’ 2” with long arms and I had absolutely no problems with the stock length. I love that fact that I can go outside and shoot without buying CO2 cartridges. I also like the low cost of the pellets versus any type of ammunition. I like the fact that there are several accessories available to upgrade the pistol. I’ll probably hold off on more accessories for a while as I would rather spend my money on my more expensive pistols and rifles. I do like shooting this Crosman pellet gun and I am practicing my shooting skills and monitoring my breathing, trigger pull, pistol grip and shooting with both eyes open. It is easy to get into bad habits and practice makes perfect. I'll post a couple of photos with the new stock and of the modifications I made to the gun sights so you can see the mods that I have done. This is a great pellet gun and I like it! I have posted photos of the front and rear sights with them colored in with a white paint pen. It makes the pistol much easier to shoot. As you can see, the highlighted sights are much easier to see and they allow you to quickly sight in on the target and they help to give you greater accuracy and faster target acquisition. I have found that using the rifle stock and the sights with white paint on them that my shooting accuracy has improved and the patterns are getting tighter. I found the riflestock helped me to hold the gun more steady and take my time in shooting which resulted in hitting the bullseye more often. What is nice with this gun is that you can make some upgrades without spending a lot of money. There are a lot of low cost upgrades for this pistol than can make it more reliable and more accurate. I have seen many optional upgrades like a better barrel that provides longer life and can serve as a mounting platform for other upgrades. You can add a rail to the better barrel to use as an mounting platform for nice shooting accessories to further improve your shooting accuracy. Once you get the rail you can add in a red dot sight. They also make and sell lower cost lasers that can be fun to shoot with on this pistol. It makes it nice that you can upgrade this pistol with a lot of features that don’t cost a lot but make the gun unique to fit your style of shooting. It is a good training pistol for a young adult or an adult to use to hone their shooting skills. This gun has become a hit at my home as many of my grandsons want to shoot it outside when they come over. I have enjoyed this purchase a lot more than I expected too. So have my grandsons as they love to shoot the pistol. Just remember that this is not a toy and to have people learn the rules of the proper way to handle a pistol. This is worth every penny I have spent on it and I enjoy the time we spend shooting it. This is a good hobby to shoot this low cost gun and with low cost pellets. It is fun to shoot as a practice pistol or as a pistol to control small varmints. I never thought we would have so much fun shooting this air pistol. This is really a fun item to purchase if you are a fan of shooting. I just love shooting a tin can across the yard for the fun of it. It’s an inexpensive way to have fun in your own back yard just plunking away at targets. The quality of this pistol is good and it works well. It is fun to shoot for an hour for a few pennies a shot. If you love to shoot a pistol then this is the best entertainment you can buy.

I did not find this hard to pump. I'm 60+ years old. 10 pumps was not hard but I wouldn't want to do it all day. 5 was pretty easy and 3 made for good target practice. 15 paces hitting a quarter was not hard with Crosman HP 7.6gr pellets picked up at WalMart.

I owned one of these in the .22 caliber back in the 1980s, though it had real wood on the handle and pumping mechanism. But this one might be more durable and last longer as wood cracks/breaks over time. It is heavy compared to CO2 pellet guns. Not noticed any air leaking Ive pumped it up and left it set for hours and it held the pressure well. When I had my first one I used to hunt small game, rabbits squirrels etc. Unlike a real firearm hunting it didnt scare away all the other critters so I'd say the noise level isnt bad.

Something they don't point out in the literature is how it enables one to become proficient at hunting big, dangerous game, because after a few weeks of pumping this thing, you'll be able to kill a grizzly bear at 100 yards with great accuracy -- with a thrown brick. The pumping of this thing will give you arm muscles that would do Popeye proud. So the first thing I had to do, or at least did, was replace the forearm with one from a Crosman Backpacker. It fits, if you can get the right grub screws for it, and because the forearm is wider, while it was still an effort to pump the thing, it was no longer painful and the risk of blood blisters was diminished. Of course, then I realized that holding it by the top to get a better purchase would distort the barrel, so the second thing I did was order a steel breech for it, which is far more solid. But the steel breech had no rear sight, so I had to get one of those now, too. The plastic barrel band/front sight is flimsy and in the case of the pistol I received, the front sight was tilted off to the left. I'm still sorting that out, because the replacement I got doesn't actually fit. I've seen where people have put the shoulder stock on, and very long barrels, and silencers, and scopes and such. But if I'd wanted a rifle, I would have gotten a rifle -- in fact, I did just that, 15 years ago, when I got a nice Benjamin .22 air rifle. Don't need another of those. It's a nice little airgun, and I'm not angry that I got it or anything, but while I knew I could spend a few hundred dollars on customization, I did not know that I would *have* to spend twice the price of the gun on aftermarket parts just to make it pleasant to shoot. That part was disappointing. So while I conditionally recommend it, I can guarantee that if you shoot it much you'll end up making it into a far more expensive pistol.