Hi Chris, yeah we had it on authority from a Crosman employee about a year ago that they were in the process of re-engineering their barrels, and implied that the manufacturing and QC aspects were being revamped accordingly. ....It's pretty clear the Maximus isn't what would be considered part of their premium line but the reports from owners have been very favorable for the most part, so I thnk that led folks to speculate that Crosman was making the barrels under the new design and processes....... Rather, it's that I see a potential for them to be the hands-down one to beat in the mainstream market and it just pains me to see them displaying this degree of incompetence or apathy.
Douglasr,A Maximus barrel was suggested by Crosman. They said I would need to get a Maximus breech, but Crosman warned I would lose FPS on the shots. Think the ports are smaller. I would imagine the Maximus barrel would still work with a standard Discovery .22. Without drawings and dimensions, exchanging parts is a gamble on results.If I am going to swap out for a different breech, might as well put a BNM repeater on the rifle. Going spring for a Lothar Walther blank barrel and have it machined for the BNM breech and TKO suppressor. Shouldn't have any issues with a LW barrel at all.
Okay guys, Chris' recent experience getting a bad barrel from Crosman prompted me to go back through some old posts and see how far back this stretches.K.O. got one way back in July 2012:https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=80859.msg771681#msg771681 Oldnoob had the same type of damage on a Discovery purchased in March 2014:https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=64067.msg612685#msg612685And of course ACZan just got one in the last few weeks:Let that sink in for a moment.Here we are over 5 years later and Crosman is still shipping barrels with damaged rifling at the muzzle.What does it take to fix the root cause? The right tools. 5 years wasn't enough.What does it take to perform damage control? To inspect barrels and cull the bad ones so their "valued customers" don't have to assume the role of quality control technicians? It would take a tech with a flashlight about 10 seconds to spot the damage. Yet in 5 years they couldn't be bothered to do that.
"All of our PCP barrels are manufactured in the US."
"You don’t want to switch to the Maximus transfer port because it will reduce your velocity. The discovery has a larger transfer port."Crosman Production Mgr