My latest Garage Find

[Eric300]

My lucky day! I found this at a garage sale for 20 bucks. Crosman Power Master 760. As far as I can tell, it's a First Variant manufactured between 1966-1970. Aluminum receiver, brass bolt, wood stock and fore end. For being somewhere between 50-56 years old, it's in real nice all original condition and still works like a champ! Holds pressure, no leaks, no surface rust, very minor booger marks on the wood, and pretty accurate ta'boot. It even still had BB's in it.

I used to have one when I was a kid. Other than maybe a Benjamin/Sherdan Blue/Silver Streak, this was THE pump air rifle to have. Lucky to still have both eyes after all the BB guns wars we used to have.

After some minor adjustments to the rear sight, I got it zeroed in at 12 yds. 7 pumps (10 max), .177 pellets, iron sights, off-hand.

It's going to make a dandy barn gun to help eradicate those pesky barn swallows, chickadees, chipmunks and any other vermin that attempt to take up residency in my barn and garage.

 

[Pef]

I think our skies would be dark with birds today were it not for those multi-pump pellet guns and 10 year old boys back in the 1970's....

 

[Farmer17]

I had one exactly like that as a kid and shot it for years but replaced it with a Sheridan blue streak .20 caliber that were far superior but many times more expensive. I loved loading three BBs in the Crossman, it got the job done!

 

[ralph7]

Of all the idiotic things I did as a kid, BB gun wars wasn't one of them...

 

[pmanton]

I still have one. Many many years ago my male Siamese cat was in our driveway being menaced by a much larger tom. I thought I'd do Russel a favor and put a BB on the Tom's butt with 2 pumps so it would sting but not penetrate.

Instead of helping poor Russel, the BB enraged the tom, who blamed his closest adversary and wiped the driveway with my cat.

 

[Empe]

My brother and I would spend hours in the winter down in our basement with my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun shooting at empty shot gun shells.
The BB's would hit the cement wall and frequently come flying back just past our heads . Of course we weren't wearing safety glasses . Who heard of doing such a thing back in " the day" . Amazingly neither one us lost an eye.

 

[kraynky]

I think our skies would be dark with birds today were it not for those multi-pump pellet guns and 10 year old boys back in the 1970's....

I resemble that remark! Proudly I might add. I can't begin to tell how many starlings, blackbirds,........ and even perhaps a few of "grandmother's song birds" that I eliminate back in the 70's.

My BB guns transitioned into pellet guns, into 22 LR rifles. I harvested my share of frog legs with my 22 as well. DELICIOUS Indeed!

 

[Dave Baird]

My Crossman took out thousands of flying grasshoppers and toy soldiers until a window broke. It was put away. My brother loaned it out and it never returned. OI'Vey

 

[Scharfschuetzer]

I had one too. I shot a lot of toy soldiers and no longer wanted model tanks with it.

 

[RGallaher]

BB gun wars, LOL! My parents wouldn't let me have a BB gun because, and I quote my mother, "you'll put an eye out!" So I borrowed a friend's and, as we were joking around about having a battle, my best friend shot me! And I shot him back. Then we both dove for cover and kept up a volley. After only a few rounds...I shot my best friend right in the eye! Fortunately, that was the last gun battle of any kind for me - 60 years ago!

 

[Valmet]

Very cool. Always enjoy running across old gems at a garage sale. Looks like you're enjoying it OP

 

[glenwolde]

My dump rat gun was a .20 Sheridan Blue Streak when I was a kid. As an adult I've used a break-barrel (aka a "springer") to dispatch some demon-spawn squirrels.

 

[Eric300]

Very cool. Always enjoy running across old gems at a garage sale. Looks like you're enjoying it OP

I just spent the last couple hours in the barn shooting bottle caps with BBs. I felt like a kid again! LOL

 

[SHOOT1SAM]

I'll give ya $60.00 + shipping right now!

Sam

 

[6string]

I had one like that! My dad got it for me for Christmas so I could practice at home after I started shooting smallbore rifle. We started with prone position and open sights. For that, the Crosman was reasonably comparable. Once I got to standing and receiver sights, I began to really wish I had something like a Feinwerkbau.

Concerning these tales of BB gun wars, if I had even thought about pointing that Crosman at another person, that would have been the end of guns in our household!

A few years later, my younger brother used to shoot squirrels with that Crosman. I had an afterschool job at the time. Imagine my surprise when, arriving at work, I found my brother had hung a grocery bag full of dead squirrels from the trailer hitch as a joke!

 

[Breakaway500]

Shot my 760 enough to completely wear it out.That's what the gunsmith said who sold me a S&W model 77A .22 pump. Still have it.

 

[Engine49guy]

Nice score,
I picked up a .177 Chicom side cocker about 26 years ago. Hadnt shot it in years but pulled it out of storage to reduce the the squirrels that have been stealing my avacados and Iguanas eating my starfruit....Still works just fine.
Wish I could use my Ruger .22s but I live in a neighborhood with houses behind me.

 

[eveled]

Over the years, I think I've had the most fun shooting pellet and bb guns. Nice find OP!

 

[CajunBass]

I had one, the cheaper version with the plastic stock though. I had it when I was home caring for my wife after her aneurysm. When things got to me, I'd step out on the porch and shoot cans for a while. A crossman 760 was one of the guns that helped me get through it.

Never had a BB "war" as a kid. When I got my first BB gun my mother sternly warned me. "Don't let me ever even hear of you shooting anything with it you're not supposed to shoot. Person, bird, dog, cat...you know what I mean." Indeed I did. I never so much as shot a starling with it. I did manage to shoot my kid sister once, but really did not know she had gone behind my target. Lost the gun for a month for that one. She still reminds me..."Well you shot me once."

I once fed one of my other sisters 150 baby aspirin, but that's another story.

 

[zeke]

Of all the idiotic things I did as a kid, BB gun wars wasn't one of them...

Well, it was just one of the causes for our multiple bb gun revocations when we were kids. Shooting out street lights was also verboten.