It seems to effect mainly the .22 barrels. This is my bran new .22 discovery barrel
With all this talk about these bad barrels, I had to be sure my two week old .25 Marauder wasn't in the same boat.I took the barrel out today and inspected it.I was happy to find a nicely blued and straight barrel with a very nice crown.Someone asked for pics so here are some.Will
I also let them know there were threads on the air gun boards about this, and they claimed it was the first they'd heard of any recent barrel problems. They also claimed there were no tooling or machinery issues taking place at the factory.
I sent my synrod in for warranty, complaining about the quality of the barrel.I got it back with a note "replaced power screw" and showed a sample target from their testing at 11yards. It was a .75" group. At 11 yards. They found this acceptable. I find it embarrassing for a $500 gun. After some home testing, I couldn't get better than 1" groups at 25 yards, and that was with several pellets (h&n ftt, beeman fts, cpd, jsb 15.89, jsb 18.1).This will be the last Crosman gun I buy.At this point I am willing to buy a third party barrel. I really wanted one of the new hammer forged barrels from Jim Gaska, but they don't seem to be on the ordering page at marmot militia. EDIT** I guess he is getting them up on his ordering page, as the barrels page is now active again. I'm going to sit and stare at my credit card until I can order one.
Quote from: wimpanzee on March 21, 2014, 11:44:37 AMI sent my synrod in for warranty, complaining about the quality of the barrel.I got it back with a note "replaced power screw" and showed a sample target from their testing at 11yards. It was a .75" group. At 11 yards. They found this acceptable. I find it embarrassing for a $500 gun. After some home testing, I couldn't get better than 1" groups at 25 yards, and that was with several pellets (h&n ftt, beeman fts, cpd, jsb 15.89, jsb 18.1).This will be the last Crosman gun I buy.At this point I am willing to buy a third party barrel. I really wanted one of the new hammer forged barrels from Jim Gaska, but they don't seem to be on the ordering page at marmot militia. EDIT** I guess he is getting them up on his ordering page, as the barrels page is now active again. I'm going to sit and stare at my credit card until I can order one.That is complete BS in my opinon, that not worthy and I'm sorry that's what you ended up with. I'll likely buy a LW barrel for mine as well if Crosman can't get me one that shoots MUCH better than that. Since my gun was a refurb, I'll still come out about the cost of a new Srod. What I find comical is they advertise the marauder to be the quietest, most accurate gun in it's class. Looking at test targets from reviews of other guns in it's price range, and even cheaper PCP guns I beg to differ. I REALLY want a P rod, it's the only thing like it out there pretty much that I'm aware of, but if I can't get this worked out to my satisfaction I doubt I'll ever buy one. So that means I'll be looking for other options, that will still let me hand pump though, which rules out the air force guns.
Quote from: WNCmotard on March 21, 2014, 06:10:57 PMQuote from: wimpanzee on March 21, 2014, 11:44:37 AMI sent my synrod in for warranty, complaining about the quality of the barrel.I got it back with a note "replaced power screw" and showed a sample target from their testing at 11yards. It was a .75" group. At 11 yards. They found this acceptable. I find it embarrassing for a $500 gun. After some home testing, I couldn't get better than 1" groups at 25 yards, and that was with several pellets (h&n ftt, beeman fts, cpd, jsb 15.89, jsb 18.1).This will be the last Crosman gun I buy.At this point I am willing to buy a third party barrel. I really wanted one of the new hammer forged barrels from Jim Gaska, but they don't seem to be on the ordering page at marmot militia. EDIT** I guess he is getting them up on his ordering page, as the barrels page is now active again. I'm going to sit and stare at my credit card until I can order one.That is complete BS in my opinon, that not worthy and I'm sorry that's what you ended up with. I'll likely buy a LW barrel for mine as well if Crosman can't get me one that shoots MUCH better than that. Since my gun was a refurb, I'll still come out about the cost of a new Srod. What I find comical is they advertise the marauder to be the quietest, most accurate gun in it's class. Looking at test targets from reviews of other guns in it's price range, and even cheaper PCP guns I beg to differ. I REALLY want a P rod, it's the only thing like it out there pretty much that I'm aware of, but if I can't get this worked out to my satisfaction I doubt I'll ever buy one. So that means I'll be looking for other options, that will still let me hand pump though, which rules out the air force guns.You can hand pump an Airforce PCP it is just a little more work I pumped my Condor with my Hill pump for 3 months and if I wasn't such a lazy old fart I would not have bought a Freedom 8 and Guppy tank