Good old Daisy 22SG ;)

[Bryan Heimann]

Well, I couldn't sell her, but I guess it's not such a bad thing after all.  When I originally got her she wouldn't even fire, but she pumped up and held air fine.  With a little southern ingenuity and an e-clip, I figured out how to make her shoot- but then she started leaking!  So, enter the Crosman Pellgun oil.  She starts holding air, and the velocity climbs every time I pull her out.  Last time I ran her over the chrony she was getting high 490's up to right at 501 feet per second with CPHP's.  As if that wasn't convincing enough, now I know for certain that the Pellgun oil treatments are really starting to work.  I just ran her over my chrony with the cracked screen again, and as best as I can read it, she's getting 508-515 feet per second.  I might have put 11 pumps in her by accident on that 515 shot, because as long as I take steady deliberate strokes and put ten in her she stays right in between 508 and 510.  I keep that foam piece on the pump saturated with Pellgun oil. Lately I've been using the Crosman silicon oil as I've just ran out of the pellgun oil.  Anyway, if you don't know about these guns, those are actually healthy numbers for this model.  You would normally see numbers somewhere around 490 feet per second with these hard, 14.3 grain Premiers in these guns.  To top it all off, I put the scope back on and checked the zero at 12 feet, shooting off- hand from my laundry room into my dimly-lit shed (that's about as far as I get to stretch it around here these days) and despite the bad light and the scopes crosshairs looking so blurry I could barely make them out, i put 5 pellets in a 1/4" ctc group.  It doesn't sound that impressive at only 4 yards, but if you could have looked through that scope!  I TELL you when I stretch it out to ten yards or so and I can actually see my crosshairs halfway-decent, and I have something to rest my gun on, it's gonna be as tight or better!  I took a few pictures of everything, including a nice shot of my NEW old rabbit rifle and her favorite pellets.  That outlier in the bottom left edge of that group is a shot that I pulled when I first started shooting this group- user error.  the other 5 went in that nice little horseshoe of a group right at .5" below the hole in the "e" on the fire starter log.  Oh and btw, I shot that group on 5 pumps and there were no pellets left inside that bar, either they all went through or they all got knocked out by the following shots.  I took one shot at the thickest part of it on ten pumps and it blew right through (1 and 3/8" thick).  I can't wait to get out and get after the bunnies!!

*EDIT* the distance was 20 feet!  I had to measure it in two chunks, one was 8 ft. and one was 12 ft, and I forgot to add.  derrr..

[Nate the airgunner]

Great guns, the best multi-pumps for hunting out there other than the Benjamin/Sheridans.

[VAFarmer]

2 things kept me from buying that one, Bryan

1-I need another airgun like I need another hole in my head   

2- Figured youd regret selling it.

Keep that one around, only thing I would EVER consider replacing it with would be a Benji pumper.

They ARE great rabbit guns for sure.   They look cool, and they are a shot back to your boyhood......

Have you tried the 13.4 Air Arms falcons?   They are cheap, when you buy them in bulk, to the tune of around 1.5 cent a shot....with Pyramyds deal.   They shoot very well out of pump pneumatics, and they add a touch more speed, without loosing TOO MUCH energy.   GREAT for mid 500 speed guns that want to add a touch more velocity.

Glad you are enjoying it.   

Sorry you had to move away from a place ya loved, but time might provide you another opportunity to move back.

God bless,

Farmer

[Bryan Heimann]

Thanks for letting me keep her.  It's a shame, the way this model has disappeared from the shelves.  The $100, "1,000 fps" Chinese breakbarrels have pretty much ruined it for guns like this one, and it's a shame.  I hope that Crosman's new slogan about fpe vs. fps catches on, and pumpers like these make a come back. How cool would it be to see a new and improved 822 on the shelf that actually shot over 600 fps with lead?  Maybe even a new  Crosman 2200, or a .22 version of the new Daisy 901?  I'm not even worried about all the plastic on that one.  I want a daisy 901!

[VAFarmer]

Watch the local walmarts for the 901....

My buddy went out and bought one, right after I let him shoot my MM custom B-25........and he ended up hating the 901. 

The 901 is an 880 in different clothes, I think.

Your 822 should put out more power.

God bless,

Farmer

[Bryan Heimann]

That's why I want it!  (880 in different clothes)  I think it is a little bit more ridgid.