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Sheridan Streak info I gathered together.
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Here is some info I gathered together. I thought it may be nice for others to find it all in one place together instead of searching though the threads posts that do not contain info. I am not the source or responsible for the information. I do not claim it is all correct it is just what I have gathered. I put links to the sources as I had or remembered them. The first part I copied without keeping the source because I didn't plan on posting it and didn't feel like taking the time to find it again, so if it is from you, it wasn't planned intentionally to not link to the source page. If any one sees wrong information please post the correct info. I did not attempt to edit the originals for factual error or do any fact checks or delete any repetitions.
Thanks Dan
Until 1956, the rear sight was soldered with the first year knurled windage adjustments
1960 5 M/M Cal & Made in USA added to pump tube
1961 saw evolution of the bolt from straight to curved to pear shaped with hole (eventually removed 1975)
1963 with a switch from the hold down safety to the rocker safety
1964 changed the front sight to a forward ramp style.
1964 Inspection dates were stamped on left side of receiver (Backwards and alphabetically)
1968 removed grooves from the receiver
1972 Serial numbers instituted
Here are some known facts as they pertain to your rifle:
Straight bolt handle - Earliest C models up to 1961 when bolt handles became curved : 1949 -1960
Rear Sight - sight held by small Allen-head screw opposing two dimples on opposite side : 1956 - 1971
(earlier models featured permanently soldered rear sights with knurled windage knobs)
Automatic Safety - Pre 1963 when rocker was introduced. 1949-1962
Narrow Trigger Guard - 1959 and earlier
(can't see it in your pic but there should be Philips screws holding the trigger guard instead of rivets)
Stock and Forearm - If 4 screws were used in place of roll pins on the forearm, then it indicates
one of first two years of that model - along with thin "almost crude" stock and thin cylindrical forearm
1949-1951. Roll pins indicate 3rd year production onward.- 1952 on Partridge-style front sight with vertical rear face -
Incorporated 2-3 years after introduction of the C
model : 1951-1964 Simple Markings - the words "5mm Cal" and "Made in USA" on opposite side introduced in 1960. Absent
those inscriptions 1949-1959
High Comb Stock - 1949-1958 Lowered in 1959
I'd say the best guess given the info on hand is it's between a 1956 - 1958 model (Based on rear sight and high comb).
If I'm not mistaken it was like this;
CB was all the rockers, thumbers etc.
CB9 was early transitional packed in lead.
CB9PA was late transitional. Slip in valve. Both transitionals used the same trigger, bolt, and hammer package with [push pull safety
CB9A is what they have now but that has gone from Walnut to Sycamore? Slip in valve and Safety on the guard.
Silver streaks drop the B from model designation.
To confuse the actions were never marked with the B as that designated black and when the markings were stamped the Guns could still be a black or chromed gun. Just like an E or H pistol is stamped before it was chromed or painted/blacked and only chrome guns
are actually E/H's and all else is EB/HB because it is painted or blacked somehow. C/E/H means silver.
Now you know TOO MUCH!
On a C9A, the first three numbers are all you need.
Your gun was made in December of 1999.
starting in 1994 when production of the Benjamin and Sheridan rifles moved to Crosman’s manufacturing facility in NY, they moved to 9-digit serial numbers. The first three digits is the date code. the next six digits is the actual serial number.
The first digit of the date code is the month, numbers 1-9 correspond to Jan - Sept. and letters O,N,&D correspond to Oct, Nov, Dec.
The next two digits of the date code correspond to the year. so, 99 = 1999, 05 = 2005, etc.
Sheridan info from
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=146871.msg1498487#msg1498487
If the serial number is on the left side and starts with a W, then it had to have been built in Racine before the end of November 1993. That is when production stopped in Racine. Production resumed in NY in January 1994, and those guns have the 9-digit serial number on the right side.
Rob has a 392P that must be one of the very earliest to come out of the NY plant as it still has the Racine stamp, but has the Crosman Jan 94 serial, and so literally must be a tube made in WI that they brought over to NY and assembled.
Alcohol Flush (I highly recommend this for any gun that is old or been sitting idle for an extended period of time).
1. Remove the butt stock so alcohol/oil doesn’t soil it.
2. Open the pump arm/lever.
3. Position the gun’s muzzle up & place a tablespoon or two into the tube above the pump cup &
close the pump arm/lever.
4. Place gun (muzzle up) into a bucket (I use a 5-gal plastic paint bucket) & leave in this position overnight.
5. Open the pump arm/lever & drain alcohol into the bucket.
6. Cycle the pump arm/lever 4 or 5 times & shoot into a white rag. Do this about 3 times then add
about ½ a tablespoon of secret sauce or pneumatic gun oil above the pump cup? Keep cycling the
gun & shooting it into the white rag until the discharge is whistle clean or your arm falls off,
whichever comes first. If the discharge is still dirty, then repeat the flush. In addition, make sure no
more residues are released onto the white rag, or it will affect pellet flight.
7. Run a few patches through the barrel to clean & dry & you’re done.
8. Be sure to cycle the gun twice before putting it away. This will insure all of your gun’s internals are
protected.
9. Repeat the entire process if no change is detected.
From
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=146609.msg1491627#msg1491627
Starting in 1991, when the Benjamin and Sheridan lines were revamped as the C9 and the 39x, the Sheridan C9 (and the F9) started getting a butt plate with the white line spacer (I know this is not your question, but I'm leading up to it).
Prior to 1991, the Benjamin 34x and Sheridan C, did share some internal parts like pistons and valves, but they also had a lot of different parts like the sears and trigger assemblies and sights, etc. Then in 1991, with the revamp of the lines, all of those aforementioned parts were now shared, so that the biggest differences were now - most visibly, the stocks. other more subtle differences were the pump tube cap, the bolt knob shape, front sight shape.
Once Crosman bought Benjamin, the first lines they consolidated were the CO2 rifles. pre-takeover the F9 and the 39xG were distinctly Sheridan and Benjamin respectively, but once Crosman took over, they all received the Sheridan style stocks - straight stock with white line spacer butt plate.
When production moved to NY in 1994, there were a few changes. the finish on the 'blue/black' rifles changed from a baked-on blackening to paint. also, the butt plate on the Sheridan rifles lost the Sheridan name stamp. in 1995, the valve changed from soldered to cartridge style, and in 1997, the current trigger pack/assembly was introduced.
No changes to the stocks happened until the year 2000 (ok, so now I'm finally answering your question). For the year 2000, both Benjamin and Sheridan lines received the 'Sheridan' style stocks. with full length forearms and straight stocks with white line spacer and black butt plate.
I 'THINK' (sorry, I'm running off memory here and haven't really thought about this stuff in a year), that this change coincided with a change in the "cut" of the wood. that is before 2000, the forearms were rounded on the edges, and after 2000, they were squared off with no rounding. it’s possible that the 2000 guns were rounded and the squared off forearms started in 2001. I'd need to go back and check that.
THEN, in again I THINK in 2003 or 2004, they dropped the white line spacer. Everything else was still the same, they just dropped the white spacer.
THEN in mid-2005, they switched to the current style raised cheek piece stock and angled cut forearm
So to answer your question, when did the 39x guns have the white line spacer. 2000 to 2003 or 2004. it was only a few years.
also, in 2000 is when the catalog began referring to the stocks as being made of "American hardwood" instead of walnut.
From
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=106134.msg1009776#msg1009776
What I've done is taken what is known and then extrapolated to estimate what is not known. and the more data points we can put in the known category, the closer our extrapolations will represent reality. The known recorded serial numbers for Benjamin and Sheridan rifles end with the end of 1985. So, we add one number to those to start 1986. I also know that production for the 39x and C9 series guns started Feb. 7th, 1991. So, assuming that it took some time for them to retool etc., I assumed that no 34X or C-series guns were produced in 1991. Then did one million google searches and read descriptions and looked at tons of posted photos and recorded as many serial numbers as I could. Also, I lucked into purchasing a very late as new in box 342 with manual. The manual is dated June 1990 and the serial number 250193. Then I found an auction with an even newer 247 with serial number 260xxx. So, if my gun dates to at least mid-year 1990, then a serial number 10,000 higher must be very late year production for 1990 and must represent one of the last serial numbers. So, then I took the last known recorded date and subtracted it from the highest serial number I could find (with some added to it assuming that it wasn't the actual last to roll off the assembly line) and came up with the total number produced over the 5 years without records, and then divided that number by 5 to get the average number produced per year. Now, of course this could never be perfectly accurate because different numbers were produced each year, but the more data points I can get from people who know when their gun was bought new, I can tweak it closer and closer. I did the same thing with the Sheridan C series and know that serial number 550xxx was bought in 1990, and the highest number I've seen referenced is 558xxx, and then extrapolated the in between parts.
Below is what I've come up with as estimates for serial number ranges for the years 1996-1990 - please do know that these are total estimates and shouldn't be assumed to be correct, but they should be at least kind of close.
Benjamin Sheridan
Start End Start End
1982 100001 109340 381451 401050
1983 109341 131130 401051 417410
1984 131131 159640 417411 437800
1985 159641 178080 437801 460940
1986 178081 195080 460941 480940
1987 195081 212080 480941 500940
1988 212081 229080 500941 520940
1989 229081 246080 520941 540940
1990 246081 263080 540941 560940
All Sheridan guns used the same serial number sequence. The C, E, F, and H (well except for the 1990 model E, they got their own number sequence because of the nickel plating).
some of the very last model Cs had a recessed stock screw. The finish on the Sheridan rifles changed after 1977. Until then, both blue and silver streaks had kind of polished finish. After that they got the matt finish.
From
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=138914.msg1396601#msg1396601
If the distance between the large stock screw and the front trigger guard screw is 2" then it will have the cartridge valve. If the distance is 1.5" then it is soldered valve. You can also tell by the relative position of the screw to the receiver. With soldered valve the screw is directly under the loading port section of the receiver, with cartridge valve the screw is under the chamber portion of the receiver (the very front of receiver)
From
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=138800.msg1395122#msg1395122
All guns built in NY we're painted. All guns built in Racine had the traditional blackened finish. Must be when Crosman took over production in 1994, they did not want to mess with that process and switched to paint. I'm guessing they never even moved the equipment necessary to do that to NY.
I don't think the finish was black nickel before the switch to paint. Maybe much earlier in Benjamin's history the used a black nickel finish but I know the finish used in the 1980’s and through 1993 was a blackening they called a gun metal black. A catalog I have describes the process as "all brass components go through a multi-step process involving cleaning, copper plating and blackening to produce the matte-black gunmetal finish on all exterior surfaces".
From
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=138561.msg1393234#msg1393234
The last year for the rocker safety model C was 1990.
1991 was the first year for the Tang safety C9.
1993 was the last year Racine C9.
1994 were Bloomfield C9s
In 1995 they became the C9A
Mid 1997 the C9A switched from Tang to trigger guard safety.
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