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4950cycle · Member

I have noticed not to many people own 2260s. This might not be true but seems like it to me. Anyway, Does anyone know if this little plinker is worth owning ? Also, allow me to be lazy and ask you the typical volocity in .22 , in FL. type hot weather ? I would like to know this info. because I am trying to develope a reliable repeater mechanism for my .22 Disco. . This would give me an action/breach like the Disco. to experiment with. It is so much cheaper at $ 80 than a Disco. Any useful info or just general trivia about it would be greatly appreciated.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

You could also get a 2250 or 40. They all are exchangeable.

thepaladin · Senior Member

I own all three and while some people sneer at these little Crosman rifles I like them all. They rate the 2260 at 600 and it will do that with a medium weight lead pellet. They are all reliable and can easily be upgraded and modified. The plastic receivers can be replaced by steel they can be recrowned or you can buy already modified guns (Mountain Air or Crooked Barn). Mine are all scoped, I have walnut grips on my 2240 and pistol grips on my 2250. Your right they don't get talked about a lot, but I like them and they have all performed well for me for years.

AirGunEric · Site Admin

I have never figured out why the 2240 gets all the "press"- while the 2260 gets totally ignored. Seems to me that after most of the common mods people spend money on for their 2240- they end up with... a 2260!

Nothing seriously wrong with the 2260 in my opinion, anyways.

thepaladin · Senior Member

I think it's mostly the handgun thing. We end up tuning the 2240 to the point where you can 12 footpounds or more and slapping a scope and exotic wood grips on it, maybe a compensator, just because it looks so great. It's a weakness Embarassed

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But Like I said, I love my 2260 to, IO've just been in more of a springer mode lately. God willing I'm hoping to after squirrel with co2 this fall, i hope to get an RWS 850 on top of the co2s I already have. Like I said, I hope.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

Now there's a real good rifle, the Airmagnum 850. Mr. Green

4950cycle · Member

I think you fellas really gave me something to chew on about the 2260. And even better I liked what I heard/read. I havn't had a co2 gun in a hundred years. Back in the 70s they were real junk. Always blowing seals and made out of pot metal. I hope they got better over the years since ? Really don't know a darn thing about em anymore. Been messen with magnum springers and HPA guns. Was that 600 fps in .177 or .22 ? If .177 that would translate into about 500 in .22 wouldn't it Thepaladin ? And thanks for all the info guys Smile

4950cycle · Member

On the 2240 & 2250 Broomy, I'm not to much of a pistol fan. And like Eric said, after modding and such you end up with a 2260 anyway. There almost all the same thing you say though Question

23ib0d0n · Moderator

Or:
9mm 22xx shooting 120 fpe
A few months ago I built a 9mm 22xx to run on HPA. It uses a 25" TOW barrel and runs on 1100 psi of HPA. I wrote an article about it for Airgun Hobby Magazine a few months back. Using 3/16" ports, the gun topped out at ~ 85 fpe. That would soon change.

I discussed the project with my friend, J Woodcock, and he reccomended opening up the ports. Initially, he suggested opening them all the way up to .300". I couldn't see going that far (even though that may be a great size), and we compromised at opening them up to .250", up from the .1875" they were at. Using a leaky brass transfer port, we saw numbers just over 100 fpe using 99 grain slugs. There were a few issues to work out, including lapping of the barrel, and I left the gun with J.

I picked the gun up last week, and there were a few changes. J made a steel flow through bolt and a larger steel handle. He also made a custom striker, weighing twice as much as the stock striker. Also, the gun now is rear cocking and uses a rear cocking knob in steel, also made by J. J also spent a few hours lapping the barrel.

The lapping paid off, as this gun shoots quarter sized groups at 30 yards with a few different 9mm slugs. And, these soft cast slugs hit really hard, too.
Below are a few numbers I shot over the Chrony earlier this week:

1100 psi fill:

58 grain EunJin pellets...........855 fps.......94 fpe
77 grain EunJin pellets...........780 fps.......104 fpe
99 grain Soft cast Slugs..........712 fps.......111 fpe
130 grain Soft cast Slugs.........637 fps.......117 fpe
150 grain Soft cast Slugs.........603 fps.......121 fpe

This gun might be a gas hog by some standards, but I get 3 shots per fill on 1100 psi. That's plenty for me. Using the 130 grain semi-wadcutters, this gun shoots 1" high at 30 yards on the first shot, on zero for the second shot, and 1.25" low on the 3rd shot. That allows me to aim 1 mildot under for shot 1, on zero for shot 2, and 1 mildot over for shot 3 using the Centerpoint scope I received in the giveaway by Crosman. I really like the scope with this setup. With my 22ci Wevo bottle attached, this rig puts slugs into a bottle cap at 30 yards all day long (well, as long as it takes all day to shoot 20 shots). But it's more of a shooter with the air source off, and the Mildot scope makes it easy to hit home. With the scope adjusted as it is now, 150 grain slugs hit dead center on shot 1.

Hats off to J Woodcock for turning this gun into the beast that it is now. As much as I enjoyed the initial buildup, I enjoy it much more now after the finishing touches were added!

Tim Miller

Put all of these parts together and have:
~ ~ ~ ~ ^ ^ This links to: ^ ^ ~ ~ ~ http://www.network54.com/Forum/275684/thread/1199255834/9mm+22xx+shooting+120+fpe

Sumthin' with some smack Twisted Evil

4950cycle · Member

Now thats a nice Co2 rig. What kind of barrel/in what caliber Question

broommaster2000 · Moderator

And some specs would be cool. Mr. Green

thepaladin · Senior Member

All the "22" number guns are .22s. If your interested in ready made mods, take a look at Mountain Air's web sight. http://www.mountainaircustomairguns.com/ . I also have been mostly involved in Springers and I still like them, but I also like the co2 guns and find them all to (the Crosman guns) to be pretty good (espically for the money, these aren't $500 guns). I've had a lot of fun plinking, and converting them. They all also will work well fo squirrels and anything smaller, the 2260 will work fine for cotton tails. Just sight them in and get famerillar with them.

A lot of people don't care for Crosman, and I can understan that, all their stuff hasn't exactly been, "top notch". Still these little guns are pretty well made and lend themselves to all kinds of mods. I suppose it depends what your looking for. I don't plan to get into PCP guns any time soon, I don't need that extra power for what i do, so i like the CO2 stuff, espically the mods.

thepaladin · Senior Member

I appolagize for all the typos, I tend to get in a hurry sometines. Embarassed

4950cycle · Member

I have done the rompin stompin airgun power trip with My Talon and 350 .22s . Now I am going for the fun facter that I had when I was a kid plinking with differnt types of junky airguns. I did have one gem of that time. The Sheridan silver streak in that weirdo .20 cal. . Ther wasn't much thought about mail order then so I mostly shot modified .177 pellets for ammo. From what I can see about how versatil Crosman 22XX guns are, They are the Chevys of the airgun world. You can turn them into almost anything you want them to be.Eccept a Sub machine gun Laughing