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Airguns by Make and Model => Vintage Air Gun Gate => Topic started by: February17th on August 11, 2024, 09:27:00 PM

Title: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: February17th on August 11, 2024, 09:27:00 PM
I've been reading all the information I can on this gun. I don't even know if it's 22 or 177. Can someone help me identify it? I'll post some pictures
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: bantam5s on August 11, 2024, 10:18:49 PM
This is a Crosman 101 and I believe they were all in .22, but you could just look at the muzzle.


Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: Mzq284 on August 11, 2024, 10:29:41 PM
Quote from: bantam5s on August 11, 2024, 10:18:49 PM
This is a Crosman 101 and I believe they were all in .22, but you could just look at the muzzle.
Correct, 101s were 22s, but there was also a model 100 in 177. From what I gather they're kind of rare.
I have one like that, they're good shooting rifles. Somewhere in the past I found a posting of the original Crosman owners manual. It was chock full of good info on shooting, maintaining, and rebuilding them. They claimed they were good for 12 pumps for hunting, but I wouldn't put that much wear on mine, they're not the most overbuilt guns. 5 pumps is fine for the plinking I use it for, I have more robust rifles to push hard. Enjoy your rifle, they have a natural feel to them you can't match with a modern gun
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: February17th on August 11, 2024, 10:32:01 PM
So is only real way to tell is put some ammo in and see what it shoots and what it doesn't? Sorry novice
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: Mzq284 on August 11, 2024, 10:39:02 PM
Try sliding a .177 pellet in the breech and see if it slides out the barrel when you tip it down. Or try to drop it in the muzzle, either way you'll know immediately.
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: February17th on August 11, 2024, 10:42:07 PM
Thank you everyone. Just shot a 22 out. Awesome...
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: splitbeing on August 11, 2024, 11:01:41 PM
Is the pump arm furniture wood or hard gum?
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: February17th on August 12, 2024, 07:26:38 AM
Wood
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: splitbeing on August 12, 2024, 03:46:02 PM
Could you post a pic of the stamp on the side?
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: February17th on August 12, 2024, 06:22:26 PM
Here you go
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: splitbeing on August 12, 2024, 07:46:55 PM
Looks like one of the more common, later production year models. 1940s likely (though could be earlier) but not 1949.  Here's a couple links for you to dig into, one a cideo and the other an old gta thread with updates as you scroll down.

https://youtu.be/utUU0FrmKCY?si=4Cgce3Nmk4-hzKP2

https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=105807.0


Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: chuckinohio on August 13, 2024, 01:41:30 AM
  1946 to mid 1948 manufacture.

  Last post in this thread identifies it by the Crosman logo.
https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/hard-to-find-177-crosman-model-100.1145895/
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: Back_Roads on August 13, 2024, 08:37:29 AM
 More from the GTA
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=182830.0
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=105807.0
 Here is when I bought mine :)

https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=195296.0
Title: Re: Help me identify this caliber and year
Post by: tennx on August 13, 2024, 01:50:28 PM
I was fortunate enough to acquire 100.101 and a 102…good luck