Another crazy fun plinker.

[lillysdad621]

So, a while back i found a stray, unloved 760, and nota classic gun, but one of the 30$ 2000s jobbies that most of us either grew up with or bought for our kids. This one was sorry loo, dirty, rusty and the stock was cracked and splattered with paint specks.
It looked at me from a clients trash bin, abandoned and not appreciated anymore, as the kids had already grown and forgotten it. With permission, i took it home and once on the bench, i scratched my head and wondered what would it need for it to be functional. The pump worked, but a little ATF brought it back to life.
I cleaned and took off all the broken parts and whT i had left looked more like a pirate pistol than a 760. Then it came to me. I had seen a little cut down 760 online that was used for pest bird control, and the dimensions were pleasant, and i figured this would be a good “walk the dog” pellet gun, starling getter, chipmunk blaster or rats at the warehouse. It would live in a sleeve made from old jeans legs and would be short and handy, like a trench shotgun. Then the light went on. I cut the barrel as short as i could ( 1377 size about), i used some spare crosman 66 black furniture, and as i did not have the rear sight and it had to be a snappy, quick to aim kinda gun, i chose again to look at the shotgun world for answers. I drilled a small divet on the barrel band and JB welded a BB as a bead sight. Using the crease over the receiver it is good enough for can bottom accuracy at 10 yards. It can shoot pellets, but since i dont have a magazine and it is a smoothbore anyway, what it carries is a pile of Bbs. At 6 pumps is good enough for starlings and rats. And the sleepytime ( very a pro pos) tin? Well it carries a bunch of extra ammo for its special trick. 6 pumps, load a bb. Then i grab an extra BB and drop it down the barrel… Boom! Voila…’shotgun! At 10 yards both bbs will hit within an inch of each other. On cans?!a serious blast. On pests, very effective…

[Back_Roads]

 When I was about 12 I had to take a similar step to keep shooting my 76-, I had managed to jam up the barrel with bird shot and pellets,, not the first time, but this time there was no clearing it, so I took the same drastic measure I was able to keep about an inch of barrel in front of the band. That said still could shoot stuff with it as there was still a rear sight.  I let my Aunt shoot it once from the farm house porch, I told her just aim for the old granary, 100 yards out, well turns out she hit the upstairs window dead center and took it out LOL.
 Yours looks way prettier than my results

[EdinGa]

Nice work! I love my short barreled 362 conversion, and I'm thinking along the same lines when I get my hands on one of the new Crosman 36xx pcps.

[lillysdad621]

well turns out she hit the upstairs window dead center and took it out LOL.

LoL. it figures. always works. im sure yours was just as pretty... im surprised how much fun it can be for such a small layout. and the double BB? makes my 11 years old giddy every hit.

[Horatio]

I wanted to get into the 760, but crosmans clamshell designs really kick my tail.

I can’t seem to get them back together, but have no problems with the 880 platform.

I really wanted to make a rifled barrel 760 with a little more fpe. Maybe I need to google foo for more 760 videos.

[Horatio]

Btw, thanks for sharing your creation, looks like a great time.

[lillysdad621]

they made your gun, bud. there were 760s with rifled barrels. Now the easiest way to get a rifled barrel is to rder a m4-177 barrel and get a new 760... direct swap. As far as more power, well... they are like 1377s, and we know what kind of power we get out of those. sealing the probe is your biggest problem. But Im gonna be honest with you. I went down that rabbit hole and for the distances a 760 is good for, a smoothbore is just fine. You just gotta find the right pellet. i have now only 4 760s, counting the black mamba i showed you up there. the other 2 are plastic lego brick pump arm ones, one with magazine and the other without it (i love the square pump arm . and the last is a early 60s  "revelation" model, wood and metal, in 95+ condition. the Mag one is ok accuracy wise... the one without it thinks is a target rifle. With Black hornadys BBs it will stack them under a dime at 10 yards, and hit the bottom of a soda can at 25 yards, open sighted. And with pellets (geko flat or daisy wad cutters) it will give 1/2 inch groups all day at 20 yards. Good enough to blast rats, starlings and chipmunks. It is evilly accurate, to the point that i mounted a scope costing 10x the gun,lol. It was incomprehensible at first that this gun would be so accurate as a smoothbore. But as any gun, a bit of cleaning, adjusting and testing ammo, powerlevels,etc, goes a long way. 10 pumps on that last gun nets me 618 fps avg with 7.0 gr wadcutters.
For rifled barrel fun, i found a model 66, that is essentially the result of a 2100, a 760, and a lot of Bourbon...lol