Crosman Airguns: Co2 & Pneumatic Arms

"Crosman Arms" was the first AirGun manufacturer's products that I handled & learned to shoot way back when I was a 11 or 12 year old Boy Scout.

When I was 18 or 19 years old I bought a Crosman 357-6 Co2 revolver + a full metal rifled 8" barrel from a Canadian Tire store near me.

It wasn't until I was in my late 30's that I discovered the 1322 Medalist .22 cal. multi-pump pneumatic pellet pistol, and started to learn about the history of modern Air rifles & Air pistols.

This one of my pair of Crosman model 2240's.
The 2240 is directly descended from the Crosman model 150 that was introduced in the mid-1950's, and was the first Air pistol design that used the 12 gram Co2 cartridge, or as Crosman originally named it: "Golden Powerlet"🔫

Around 5 years ago I was looking at Mt. Marvin's website "AirGun Oldies" and he had this pristine Crosman model 150 variant for sale!
It was made by Crosman and branded : Hawthorne Montgomery Ward M-150
Mr. Marvin told me that in over 35 years of buying & selling AirGun Oldies, he has never seen a model 150 so close to brand new condition.
The sale included a 5-pack box of Crosman Golden Powerlets Co2, with 3 powerlets remaining, and a Crosman "spam" style tin of .22 cal. "Super-Pells" with less than 50 pellets gone!
It seemed as though this air pistol was purchased as a shooter's kit from the Montgomery Ward's department store as a gift, around 1955-57, and may have only been used once, and then packed away for over 60 years, until Mr. Marvin bought it at an Estate sale in 2014.
I had to understandably replace the Co2 cap O-ring, and installed a modern urethane O-ring, and it has held gas and shot as  hard as the day it was made ever since🔫

Today, some of Crosman's AirGuns are made for them in Taiwan and other Foreign Countries and not in the USA, like their entire product line used to be during the Crosman Golden Age, which ended by 1980.
The select-fire ready,  PFAM9B is made in Taiwan by KWC and it is an ultra realistic replica of the Taurus PT-92 ...it's a fun and exciting Co2 pistol to own and shoot.

KWC make some of the most realistic "blowback" action Co2 air pistol replicas available today, and the PFAM9B is the latest version of their Taurus PT-92 replica.
In the past, this air pistol has been available from different brands/companies, like GSG, Swiss Arms as well as KWC's own house brand.

This is the Crosman PFM16, which I think is  made by WinGun for Crosman...like the KWC replicas, this co2 pistol has been and still is available from different companies with different outer finishes and branding.
Blackwater, Swiss Arms and Gamo(Red Alert) have their own versions of this Beretta M-84 lookalike Co2 pistol.
WinGun also released this AirGun as the WG-321(I think that's the correct model#)
The Crosman PFM16 is a full metal, very durable & reliable Co2 pistol that consistently shoots 5 grain steel BB's around 400-425 fps and has comfortable, rubber-like grips, and a metal drop-free magazine.

I think that WinGun also made the C-21 Co2 pistol for Crosman, a well as the Beretta-ish C-31.
The Crosman C-21 resembles an H&K P-30 and this AirGun comes with a match style muzzle break & fake barrel extension.
This is a Co2 pistol that has a power rating up to 495 fps, and my chronograph tests record velocities above 500 fps on a regular basis.



Here is a page from the company catalog back during Crosman's "Golden Age" of AirGuns🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

I own two of the Co2 guns on this catalog page, the Single Action Six co2 revolver & the Model 150🔫

Crosman model 38T .177cal. Co2 Pellet Revolver (1980)

The Crosman GI model 1911BB is a full metal, Colt/Browning M1911 replica air pistol that looks sharp and shoots great🔫

Here is my Crosman TrapMaster 1100 .380cal. Co2 Air Shotgun and the proprietary .380gage ammunition Crosman made for it.

Crosman made this Co2 Air Shotgun between 1968-71.

My Crosman TrapMaster 1100 Co2 Air Shotgun

This Colt Single Action Army 1873 replica airgun is an early version of Crosman's SA6, a .22cal Co2 revolver. My SA6 needs to be re-sealed.

...and lastly, it's  my customized Crosman 2240 that I named : G.K.ARMS "2240 Custom" 🔫

I found a person online who designed & 3D printed the nylon reinforced polymer Dual picatinny rail which enables the mounting of a pistol sight/optic and a gun light🔫

"G.K.ARMS" TTD-22 Custom

This is my first Custom Co2 pistol which for fun, I have named : 'G.K ARMS' TTD-22 Custom, which stands for : "Tactical Tack Driver .22 caliber"

I have a pair of stock Crosman 2240's and after shooting them for 7 or 8 years, I finally bit the bullet and spent a few weeks browsing online and found inspiration on eBay.
I was able to buy a slick 3D printed ABS polymer dual picatinny/Weaver rail, an O-LIGHT 450 lumen compact pistol light and a micro red/green dot sight.
I also put the new style grips taken from a P1322 multi-pump pneumatic air pistol. I think the new grip design looks more appropriate for this pistol than the grips it came with.

It's pretty easy to turn a $100 Co2 pistol into a $300 Co2 pistol!

I think the pistol looks great now, and I can't wait for the weather to warm up a bit so I can take it out for some early morning, or late night target practice/plinking 😎

This optic + light set up might be the ideal rig for inner city plinking.
Here in Canada, municipal "no discharge" by-laws make it difficult to enjoy your target pistols unless you have access to private land, outside of these "no discharge" areas.