Crossman 760 Air Rifle

[Dr. Cheese]

I bought my Cossman back in June because of a marauding Raccoon, but as usual, but I ended up just putting the garbage can in the garage rather than putting a pellet in the coon's head. Instead, I have lately gotten in contact with my inner kid, shooting stuff on the side of my house next to an empty lot. I never get a chance to get out far enough into the woods to shoot a .22 anymore, so shooting my air rifle is a pretty cool way to spend some time. My 9 year old is proving she can hit a few things too.

[hover]

You'll shoot your eye out kid.

[bjabass]

Man I miss my old pellet gun. I just had a cheap single shot break down type but had a blast with it. They will make a marksman out of you. I remember the old pellet boxes we got at the Western Auto store...50 pellets. You could get 500 BB's for the same price but just not the same. Used to put the LEAD pellets in my mouth thinking the wet pellet sealed the bore a little better...there would be heads exploding at the FDA nowadays but we didn't know it would kill us. Might still, it was only....uh....45 years ago.

Thanks for passing on the raccoon. They got enough trouble staying alive crossing roads.

[DblG]

Too funny you brought this up now. My 9 year old son found my Crosman 760 in the garage this spring & had been bugging me to let him shoot it. I hadn't shot it in years, and being the too over-protective parent I put it off for awhile but relented mid-summer. I taught him all the safety rules, how to operate the gun, how to aim... He wears safety glasses and only shoots at targets, and is only allowed to shoot when his mother or me are home. It was an awesome parenting experience!

As for shooting it at living things, I'm confidant he won't because the kid gets mad if I kill a bug! I reinforced it anyways by telling him the story of when I was 12 and how I shot a bird in the fields. I felt so bad I cried myself to sleep that night. Needless to say I never got into hunting. Lol

[Horny Toad]

I had a 760 when I was a kid. Had tons o' fun with that little rifle.

[spade2you]

Originally Posted by hover

You'll shoot your eye out kid.

Dammit. I wanted to say that.

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by DblG

Too funny you brought this up now. My 9 year old son found my Crosman 760 in the garage this spring & had been bugging me to let him shoot it. I hadn't shot it in years, and being the too over-protective parent I put it off for awhile but relented mid-summer. I taught him all the safety rules, how to operate the gun, how to aim... He wears safety glasses and only shoots at targets, and is only allowed to shoot when his mother or me are home. It was an awesome parenting experience!

As for shooting it at living things, I'm confidant he won't because the kid gets mad if I kill a bug! I reinforced it anyways by telling him the story of when I was 12 and how I shot a bird in the fields. I felt so bad I cried myself to sleep that night. Needless to say I never got into hunting. Lol

I've got to get some pellets. I came up shooting BB pistols. I still have a Crossman that looks like a 45. I may take it out have the kids shoot it too.

[boing]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I still have a Crossman that looks like a 45.

I remember that one. No power, no accuracy, and for a scrawny little kid with chicken arms, a royal PITA to rack the slide back. And die cast, like they all used to be back in the day.

I did hell and back with old Daisy 880. Bought a new one a few years ago. Mostly plastic, now.

(...and get off my lawn!)

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by boing

I remember that one. No power, no accuracy, and for a scrawny little kid with chicken arms, a royal PITA to rack the slide back. And die cast, like they all used to be back in the day.

I did hell and back with old Daisy 880. Bought a new one a few years ago. Mostly plastic, now.

(...and get off my lawn!)

That is true, no power and no accuracy. The BB comes ou so slow, you can see it losing power before it hits the target. My first BB Pistol was some sort of Daisy pump action, but it died on me over thirty years ago. I enjoyed it, however.

The 760 is like a full choke 12 gauge compared to that .45 lookalike.

[Joe Gress]

Still have my 760 from my early teens in my room. It gets pulled out usually when we've been partying for a while, and we have a ton of cans lying around.

[ShredderMaximus]

I have an old .22 Benjamin Franklin Model 347 that a neighbor gave to me when I was still in Elementary School, and for a pellet gun it definitely packed quite a punch! And after goin through a few tins of pellets I was a certified sharpshooter, shooting all kinds of crap. (Its the one pictured on the bottom, this was the only decent pic I could find online, looks like a real gun, bolt action and everything)


Then one day I was brought in by my ex-stepmoms parents to deal with a woodpecker that had been wreaking havoc on their house, a task I happily accepted. After a bit of searching/waiting, I finally found the culprit and brought him down in one shot through the heart, and it was a huge sucker, at least 15in. tall. After going and examining my kill, a heavy wave of sadness and remorse swept over me, and I realized that it was because I killed a completely harmless animal for no reason at all, and from that day forth vowed never to use my (mad) pellet gun skillz for killing again, except for potato bugs, I HATE potato bugs.

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by ShredderMaximus

I have an old .22 Benjamin Franklin Model 347 that a neighbor gave to me when I was still in Elementary School, and for a pellet gun it definitely packed quite a punch! And after goin through a few tins of pellets I was a certified sharpshooter, shooting all kinds of crap. (Its the one pictured on the bottom, this was the only decent pic I could find online, looks like a real gun, bolt action and everything)


Then one day I was brought in by my ex-stepmoms parents to deal with a woodpecker that had been wreaking havoc on their house, a task I happily accepted. After a bit of searching/waiting, I finally found the culprit and brought him down in one shot through the heart, and it was a huge sucker, at least 15in. tall. After going and examining my kill, a heavy wave of sadness and remorse swept over me, and I realized that it was because I killed a completely harmless animal for no reason at all, and from that day forth vowed never to use my (mad) pellet gun skillz for killing again, except for potato bugs, I HATE potato bugs.

It's sounds like you took out a Pileated Woodpecker. The second largest US woodpecker, second only to the likely extinct Ivory Bill Woodpecker. I know they say Ivory Bills became extinct in the USA in the late 1940s, but one used to come around my house in the early 1970s. It was huge, about 2 ft. tall! I remember that conservationists tried to stop log cutting in the big swamp about five miles from where I lived because they had recorded Ivory Bill calls. I begged my Mom to call the state conservation people and let them know about the Ivory Bill in out back yard, but she never called. I stopped seeing it around 1973.

That was way off topic, those are some nice air guns in that pic.

[pacojas]

yeah,... shooting birds sucks!!!

as a kid, i shot a bird in the back of it's head and the very next day a bird with a bloody wound on the back of his head landed in the exact spot of my supposed kill. i was sure it was a haunting.

@ Dr. Cheese
that raccoon will barely feel that BB if it's like the one's 'round here!

[ShredderMaximus]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

It's sounds like you took out a Pileated Woodpecker. The second largest US woodpecker, second only to the likely extinct Ivory Bill Woodpecker. I know they say Ivory Bills became extinct in the USA in the late 1940s, but one used to come around my house in the early 1970s. It was huge, about 2 ft. tall! I remember that conservationists tried to stop log cutting in the big swamp about five miles from where I lived because they had recorded Ivory Bill calls. I begged my Mom to call the state conservation people and let them know about the Ivory Bill in out back yard, but she never called. I stopped seeing it around 1973.

That was way off topic, those are some nice air guns in that pic.

After a quick google search, that definitely was my victim. I actually feel a little better now, even after all these years, to see its not endangered or anything.

And lol, when I was a kid there was always a part of me that wished I could have had the chance to scare off a robber or something with that air gun, though thankfully the opportunity never arose.

[Munjibunga]

I think I have one of those hiding in a closet around here.

[LAG]

I owned a Crosman 760 as a youngster back in the early 70's. Used to tramp the woods around the house and plink birds with it. Those are some fond memories. The rifle is long gone and so are the woods, built up with houses.

[ShredderMaximus]

I finally just looked up the Crossman 760 and realized I picked one up (or more my dad did for me) when I was a kid and spent some time out working for my pops, good times and very accurate.

Also my mom came out from California to visit a bit and brought me this:


My old Co2 powered Daisy Powerline 1200. I loved this friggin gun and forgot that I had it, but after she moved a few months ago it got dug up and thought I might like to have it again, though to an extent I have sorta grown out of bb guns.

Right now I'm trying to decide whether to sell it (though I have no idea what these go for) to put the money towards my amp or to just keep it since I would imagine is got some collectability value.

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Originally Posted by ShredderMaximus

I have an old .22 Benjamin Franklin Model 347 that a neighbor gave to me when I was still in Elementary School, and for a pellet gun it definitely packed quite a punch! And after goin through a few tins of pellets I was a certified sharpshooter, shooting all kinds of crap. (Its the one pictured on the bottom, this was the only decent pic I could find online, looks like a real gun, bolt action and everything)

It reminds me of the Sheridan pellet gun I had when I was a kid.

I enjoyed getting a really good, tight grouping of shots on a paper target.

[MX21]

I still have my Daisy single pump BB rifle that I got when I was 12. We lived in the country when I was 12 - 16 years old, so we shot literally tens of thousands of BBs there. I think there will be a copper mine there in the future. We bought the 5000 BB boxes and went through many of those. I got good enough to pick flying insects out of the air.

The Daisy rifle still works (after 35 years), but I've since upgraded to a RWS-48 .22 Pellet rifle and a modified Crosman 2240 pellet pistol for pest management. I've taken out many rats, a couple rabbits, and some rattlesnakes with those. And they're a lot of fun for target practice too.



MX

[Solarmist]

I had two of the 760's as a kid because the pump started failing on the first with as much use as it had. I would pump it up 10 times, and load 7 or 8 BB's for the scatter effect.

Cheese - if you must kill the raccoon; use a .22