06-30-2017, 07:17 PM
I just sent an email asking Crosman for a new barrel. I felt kind of funny doing so like I was asking a favor but really it is them that owe me a decent product. Now that I am sensitive to the issue I see more posts from others who also feel that Crosman basically put this product out on the market with issues that they must have known about and that they must have opted to just deal with the complaints as they came up. How could it be otherwise? It is clear that others have had issues with bad barrels. One sentiment expressed more than once was how it seems that decent firearms are available for sometimes half the price of these not so decent air rifles. How can a gun, the heart of which is a barrel, regularly be sent out with a crappy barrel without the issue being known to the company? I can see an air rifle being more expensive than a powder burning fire arm because of the powerplant, but what is the excuse for the crappy barrels?
My last line was that I am game to keep trying barrels until I get a good one. Let's see what their response to that will be. Some months ago they had offered to refund my money. I foolishly did not act on that. New barrels would almost certainly cost them less so you would think they would be game too but if they have no confidence that they can produce one they might want to just buy me out. At this point they might just tell me to take a hike. That would make me a pissed off former customer.
Weirdly this evening I was getting some really good groups, the best I have seen yet, and yet a couple of times I swear I missed the entire 6" target from 20 yards. I did some testing with various pellet brands and the tightest fitting ones had the greatest energy. I tried shooting a couple of the pellets that I had pushed through manually. They were looser in the barrel because of whatever swaging and wear took place in the previous trip down the barrel and they were so wild that they nearly missed the pellet trap altogether. So snugger=better. Makes sense that a barrel so loose the pellets slide out by themselves would be the source of the poor accuracy.
My last line was that I am game to keep trying barrels until I get a good one. Let's see what their response to that will be. Some months ago they had offered to refund my money. I foolishly did not act on that. New barrels would almost certainly cost them less so you would think they would be game too but if they have no confidence that they can produce one they might want to just buy me out. At this point they might just tell me to take a hike. That would make me a pissed off former customer.
Weirdly this evening I was getting some really good groups, the best I have seen yet, and yet a couple of times I swear I missed the entire 6" target from 20 yards. I did some testing with various pellet brands and the tightest fitting ones had the greatest energy. I tried shooting a couple of the pellets that I had pushed through manually. They were looser in the barrel because of whatever swaging and wear took place in the previous trip down the barrel and they were so wild that they nearly missed the pellet trap altogether. So snugger=better. Makes sense that a barrel so loose the pellets slide out by themselves would be the source of the poor accuracy.