want .20 caliber barrels made by crosman ??

[Motorhead]

There's easy paths forward.  Some manufacturers make custom molds. 

We have options for superlative .20 barrels.

So why not make a slug-shooter .20?  This has been on my radar a long time, and my Leshiy has easily-available .20 barrels and the easiest caliber swap in PCP airgunning.

As one who tested the .20 slugs in various weights for NSA ... in my testing at low as well 40fpe + power the accuracy was not good as hoped.  Due to data collected from numerous Beta testers NSA put producing .20 slugs on the back shelf for another day.

[Long_Gun_Dallas]

So what if they just started making consistently accurate barrels with clean rifling and even crowns? In .177 and .22 at least?  Can we pass that info along to them? 

Beat me to it.  I've owned a large number of crosman barrels over the past 4 years.  None of them shot well.  That really says a lot about how poor those barrels are.  I'd prefer a smooth bore at this point, just skip the rifling altogehter.

[SteveP-52]

There's easy paths forward.  Some manufacturers make custom molds. 

We have options for superlative .20 barrels.

So why not make a slug-shooter .20?  This has been on my radar a long time, and my Leshiy has easily-available .20 barrels and the easiest caliber swap in PCP airgunning.

Most makers already took what they considered the "easy paths forward". The market was leaning more and more toward .22, .25, then PCP's, bigger calibers and more power. Gun makers, except for a small few, stopped making them and pellet makers followed suit to the point you now see the very little you do for .20 caliber pellets. 2 from H&N, 2 from JSB, Predator Polymags and Benjamin Domes. The Daystate branded stuff is nothing more than rebranded H&N and JSB. Heck, Weihrauch even has their own although again, they're just rebranded H&N and only AoA had them. They're not going to bring back a new entry level rifle or a PCP in the caliber because none of them see a market for it or profit to be made considering the very small following.
Most even shooting .20 anymore either bought one of the very few still being made or had guns custom made.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Airforce offers the Talon and Condor in .20...

https://www.airforceairguns.com/AirForce-Airguns-Talon-Air-Rifle-p/u20042.htm

https://www.airforceairguns.com/AirForce-Airguns-Condor-Air-Rifle-p/u20432.htm

[mthalman]

Yes this is an old thread. However, I would very much would love a cheaper option then the Walther .20cal barrels. Especially now that Crosman introduced the 362, I don't understand why they just don't market the .20cal. If they took a Bob Beeman approach to marketing the 5mm (maybe) they would re-energize the caliber?  I would take anyday a .20cal over .22 and definitely over .177. Just a perfect caliber and if heavily marketed so pellet manufacturers produced a wide range of size/shapes/weights that would be the only caliber I would buy, especially for mid-powered AGs. So a long story short: a big yes for .20cal barrels...

[Back_Roads]

 Yup it is like Benjamin / Crosman put the Sheridan most likely in the same place Jimmy Hoffa may be stashed 

[ev-in-az]

Count me in for 2 or 3.

[SteveP-52]

Yes this is an old thread. However, I would very much would love a cheaper option then the Walther .20cal barrels. Especially now that Crosman introduced the 362, I don't understand why they just don't market the .20cal. If they took a Bob Beeman approach to marketing the 5mm (maybe) they would re-energize the caliber?  I would take any day a .20cal over .22 and definitely over .177. Just a perfect caliber and if heavily marketed so pellet manufacturers produced a wide range of size/shapes/weights that would be the only caliber I would buy, especially for mid-powered AGs. So a long story short: a big yes for .20cal barrels...

A good many share your thoughts. Sadly, the air gun makers don't and why only a few companies still do. They see more profit in .177, .22, PCP. Pellet makers won't because they don't see a huge demand
let alone gun makers bringing a new rifle or 2 or even 3 to market to even consider bringing a new pellet or even 2 back.
It's what 19Sheridan57 was trying to do with his email campaign to get companies to consider the idea of bringing a new entry level .20 caliber to market and as he already stated, Crosman never even bothered to reply to his email and while other companies at least had the decency to, it was basically a nicely worded "Oh h3ll no"...lol.
While I may well be wrong, Webley & Scott with Hatsan building the rifles, was the last company to offer an entry level .20. They stopped building those a few years ago and the last seller to have any was a seller on Amazon who was selling off his last stock for $99.99 each. I have 4 of them and by most accounts from the shooters who actually bought one, they were hidden little gems that were silly accurate, plenty of power and would easily shoot all of the few pellets in .20 still being made.

The rest is already spelled out here which leaves you either hunting for older .20 cal rifles or custom building what you might want using LW barrels for it.

[anti-squirrel]

Airforce offers the Talon and Condor in .20...

https://www.airforceairguns.com/AirForce-Airguns-Talon-Air-Rifle-p/u20042.htm

https://www.airforceairguns.com/AirForce-Airguns-Condor-Air-Rifle-p/u20432.htm

And EdGun offers the Leshiy in .20.

In fact, you can buy the barrels from Airgun Heaven:  https://airgunheaven.com/en/airgun-rifles?f%5B0%5D=field_type_luchtbuks%3A3144&f%5B1%5D=field_product%253Afield_size%3A107.  250mm is under $120, 350mm is under $170.

These aren't overly expensive in the era of $6 coffee and $10 burgers.