Stone cold (can) killer

[Blowpipe Sam]

I’ve had this 4th model Crosman 760 for about a year now.  It was gifted to me by someone who appreciated its minty condition but who didn’t care to collect this style of airgun.  I’m a Crosman enthusiast but I’ve never actually owned a 760.  I shot my friends 760’s when I was a teenager and I remember being underwhelmed.  This one arrived in excellent cosmetic condition but it wouldn’t hold air.  Just for git’s and shiggles I did an alcohol flush and wonder of wonders it worked!  I played with it all day yesterday, chronographed it, tested BB’s and pellets.  Today (again) just for git’s and shiggles, I ran accuracy tests with BB’s and Pellets at ten yards range.  Crosman copperheads grouped about 2”.  CPHP and H&N FTT grouped between 1” and 1.25”.  Not too shabby.

Then came the eye opening moment.  8gr Umarex hp, ten pumps, ten yards.  Five shots in 1/2”.  I thought it was a fluke.  So I did it again.  Five shots in 3/8” this time.  So I broke out the paper targets and shot two more five shot sub 1/2” groups.
The chronograph says those pellets are going 494 FPS for about 4.5 FPE.  After nearly forty years I finally understand how my friends were able take all manner of small game with a Crosman 760.

Photos really do not do credit to how original this gun is.  There is a scratch on the left side of the receiver  and a tiny blemish on the forearm varnish.  That’s it.  Not a speck of rust anywhere.  I feel really lucky to have the opportunity to shoot a nearly new condition classic like this one.

[Goose]

That's in amazing condition!  Congrats.  Glad to see that it found a place in which it's appreciated.

They're not all that accurate or all that powerful, but then those aren't necessary for a lot of fun.

I have a similar model, (with the rifled barrel) and it doesn't group as well as yours does with anything that I've tried with it.

Cheers,

J~

[cvasquez]

I remember when using bbs ID hold the first one with the ti of my finger off the magnetized bolt and retract the bolt to pickup another bb. Hld that second one and retract the bolt to pick up a third and so one tillI got say 5  bbs as a shotgun affect!!!  Anyone else ever do this?

[Struckat]

Oooh, that’s the one I had. Wood up front and solid composite stock…75-76?

Lots of miles across my handle bars.

I really only shot BBs. Dad only bought me one plastic box of pellets. Still have the box with maybe 10 or so left. Never figured out what happened to the gun. He gave me a PB 22 a couple years later, so I lost track of the 760.

Smooth bore?

[TerryM]

I remember when using bbs ID hold the first one with the ti of my finger off the magnetized bolt and retract the bolt to pickup another bb. Hld that second one and retract the bolt to pick up a third and so one tillI got say 5  bbs as a shotgun affect!!!  Anyone else ever do this?

Me and my best bud used to do that with his 760, back in 1960-something (in Plainview, Texas, by the way).  Three BBs and ten pumps, sparrow destroyer.

[ric44]

Had a 760 . Never should have sold it .