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Smaug
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Re: New Member, New Gun
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Reply #20 on:
July 29, 2011, 06:27:32 PM »
So with the weedeater line, you still push it instead of pull it through the bore?
It is strange, with the steel not being hardened. One can buy a Marlin 22 powderburner rifle for $160 or so, brand new. Hardened steel barrel with their Micro-Groove rifling. Yet when I pay $200 for an airgun, they use the cheapest steel they can find? (and this is OK with airgun guys?) This is a big, fat rip-off, IMO...
Nevertheless, I'm grateful to have been told this before I worked on it with a brass cleaning rod made for 17 HMR powderburners.
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Bullit
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July 29, 2011, 06:51:02 PM »
They don't use the "Cheapest steel they can find".
They don't need high pressure holding capability, as in a centerfire.
Good A/Gs generally have good barrels. $200.00 doesn't buy much airgun, or .22 for that matter. Hardened steel doesn't denote the grade/quality of the steel.
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July 30, 2011, 09:10:24 PM »
These targets are backed by cardboard. The targets are on a Crosman pellet trap.
The NPSS shot better after I cleaned it, but its erratic again. I have a couple hundred pellets through it now. I'm attaching a 4-up target I just shot at 20 yards. The upper left target is my Storm XT and the other three are the NPSS. It's still louder and has more kick then the Storm XT. I'm getting frustrated with this gun, should I keep at it or is this a lemon?
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Re: New Member, New Gun
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July 30, 2011, 10:36:42 PM »
Get PA to exchange it. If not, get Crosman to under warranty.
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tcgoetz
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July 31, 2011, 08:22:49 AM »
Thanks for all of the advice.
I'm going to talk to PA tomorrow about returning it as defective. I'm debating about just returning it and not exchanging it and getting a Marauder when they have them back in stock. It would cost a lot more, but then I'd get a .22 that's quiet and accurate.
Do Marauder's have the same quality issues as the Crosman springers?
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July 31, 2011, 11:18:21 AM »
If that rifle dosnt shoot one hole groups at
20 feet
after a few hundred more rounds I would call Pyramid asap and get it replaced... My titan shoots
5 in a dime at 20 yrds.
after 250 cphp pellets out of the box with just a bore cleaning and using loctite on all screws/scope mount.
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- Crosman Titan .22 Cal. W/3x9 Weaver and Leaper one piece mount and rings, tuna gold trigger. Under dime 25yrds. Cphp's.
- RWS 320m .177 4x RWS scope in mint condition.Getting tuned by dad the pro.
- B-28 .22 Cal. Fully Tuned by my dad the pro tuner. RWS 3x9 AO scope. BKL mount with magnum rings.
- Winchester 1000x .177 made by Hatsan, Turkish walnut stock.
- Beeman G1000 .177 mint.
- Hatsan 85 camo .22 Cal. w/4x Leapers scope.
- Crosman 760 in mint condition. Wood stocks. Oldie but goody.
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