This is my C362...

[Spacebus]

My hands are not able to grab pellets so I use suture forceps to pick them up by the skirts and place them on the probe.

I'm thinking about getting a pellet pen, this is the most annoying single shot I own to load.

[desertplinker]

I agree, not sure about pellet pen but the loading is very fussy. Why is that?

[Firewalker]

I find the 880 to be much harder to load. 

[Spacebus]

I find the 880 to be much harder to load. 

Does it have the same breech as the 901? One thing I hate about the 901 is that short pellets can sometimes fall into the BB magazine area if the bolt is all the way back. I might try some forceps, I have a dissection set somewhere.

[avator]

Wanna talk about hard to load? How about a 2100? I have to use reverse squeeze tweezers for those.

[Back_Roads]

Wanna talk about hard to load? How about a 2100? I have to use reverse squeeze tweezers for those.

 2100 and the Legacy 1000, I also have a Webley Rebel, that is a trick to load.

[avator]

Yep, I have several of that platform... AM77, 766, 2100 and 2200. I love them and they are quite special with after market wood furniture.... just a pita to load.

[Firewalker]

The 362 is a breeze to load compared to some of the other single shots I have. It seems like there's more area to get your fingers in than the other guns.

[avator]

Guys.... I'm gonna step away from this one for a bit, at least until #2 arrives and I have time to spend with it.
I really need a PCP fix and I'll get that via the Buck in Black.... the BSA Buccaneer in the Gamo Urban stock.
Feel free to carry on in this thread.

[bender ville]

I find the 880 to be much harder to load. 

Does it have the same breech as the 901? One thing I hate about the 901 is that short pellets can sometimes fall into the BB magazine area if the bolt is all the way back. I might try some forceps, I have a dissection set somewhere.

  i find that if you make a habit of sliding the bolt probe forward 16 to 8th of an inch before each pellet load your pellets will never fall down into bb port i just do it now without even thinking about it. on  that type of port especially the scoped winne 1977 i never shoot bbs anyways am thinking about filling the bb port with j b weld.

[avator]

These work great.
https://www.jewelrysupply.com/Cross-Locking-Fiber-Grip-Soldering-Tweezers--Curved-Medium-Point_p_11526.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-PaOlOq-9QIVjeCzCh1faw1IEAQYBiABEgLk6_D_BwE

[Firewalker]

Guys.... I'm gonna step away from this one for a bit...

These work great.
https://www.jewelrysupply.com/Cross-Locking-Fiber-Grip-Soldering-Tweezers--Curved-Medium-Point_p_11526.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-PaOlOq-9QIVjeCzCh1faw1IEAQYBiABEgLk6_D_BwE

 

[bender ville]

hey firewalker thats the best saying about pellets i have heard

[mentolio]

My hands are not able to grab pellets so I use suture forceps to pick them up by the skirts and place them on the probe.

I'm thinking about getting a pellet pen, this is the most annoying single shot I own to load.

I use a pellet pen (blue-ish .177 from Pyramyd Air) to load my 1377 and it works quite nicely. Only way I see that getting better is if I get around to using Avator’s candle wax fix over the breech screw.

[Firewalker]

hey firewalker thats the best saying about pellets i have heard

Blame credit goes to Deeco for that one though I 1000% agree! 

[Firewalker]

My hands are not able to grab pellets so I use suture forceps to pick them up by the skirts and place them on the probe.

I'm thinking about getting a pellet pen, this is the most annoying single shot I own to load.

I use a pellet pen (blue-ish .177 from Pyramyd Air) to load my 1377 and it works quite nicely. Only way I see that getting better is if I get around to using Avator’s candle wax fix over the breech screw.

I may have to try the green one and see how it does.

[Back_Roads]

My hands are not able to grab pellets so I use suture forceps to pick them up by the skirts and place them on the probe.

I'm thinking about getting a pellet pen, this is the most annoying single shot I own to load.

I use a pellet pen (blue-ish .177 from Pyramyd Air) to load my 1377 and it works quite nicely. Only way I see that getting better is if I get around to using Avator’s candle wax fix over the breech screw.

I may have to try the green one and see how it does.

I have been using the .22 pellet pen for a grab n go outside use, at the bench testing I find it easier to eat them right from the tin

[avator]

Another mod I've used in the past to address the 'floppy' bolt was to make a bushing for the bolt knob shaft from a spent brass 22lr shell.
More on this later.

[TerryM]

Wanna talk about hard to load? How about a 2100? I have to use reverse squeeze tweezers for those.

Exactly!  The guns that replaced the 140/1400 were made to look like dad's BAR, with the tapered barrel shroud, two-piece die cast receiver and that ridiculous loading port.  Of course, the 140/1400 had their quirks too.  I am not a fan of the "self-cocking" valve type, nor the sliding breech cover.  The 362 is a return to a design of rifle Crosman hasn't made since the early 1950s.  Plenty of plastic, just like everything else today, but this is necessary to keep the selling price down.  I like the new gun a lot and I was trying not to expect too much from it.

[avator]

Tracking says #2 and the Baker brass trigger should arrive tomorrow.
It looks like they are going to cancel work Saturday so, depending on Betty Lou's plans, I should have more time to play with these.
I also had a Daisy 881 show up so I'll want to run that one through it's paces as well. No mods planned for that.