Crosman 2240 Co2 pistol picatinny rail upgrade!

I own a pair of the .22cal/5.5mm  Crosman  2240 Co2 Pistols, and this is a Co2 pistol worth owning more than one of.

The Crosman 2240 is the Co2 pistol that helped spark my interest in the earlier Co2 and pneumatic air pistols that Crosman and Benjamin created and sold from the 1940's thru the present day.

I also own a pristine & rare variant of the Crosman model 150 .22 caliber Co2 pistol that is considered to be the Grand-Daddy of today's model 2240.
Mine was made around 1955 and is branded : Hawthorne Montgomery Ward Co. "M-150".

Anyways, up until now, to mount an optic on my 2240 pistol, I have a few of Crosman's dovetail barrel mounts + various ' dovetail to picatinny/Weaver rail ' adapters that work ok, but since they are clamped to the barrel, I have to sight then in everytime I take the pistol out shooting.
I could buy a steel breach that has a dovetail groove which is an expensive upgrade, and I have done ok with the barrel mounted rail plus a picatinny riser/adapter to attach optics that only cost me $20 for the mount & adapter.

I was browsing through eBay and looking at what airgun   products were available and I saw a nifty picatinny/Weaver rail that someone designed and manufacturered with a 3D printer.
I took a chance, and ordered one a couple of days ago.

This Rail cost me $30 plus $11 shipping, which is still considerably less than the steel breach upgrade.

It took a couple of weeks, but the dual rail arrived.

I installed the 3d printed dual picatinny rail on to one of my Crosman 2240 Co2 pistols, and it is awesome looking!
I am going to have fun with this Co2 pistol this summer, especially with one of my high power gun lights attached to the under rail!

Umarex 'Legends' P08 Luger 4.5mm Co2 pistol

I borrowed the next two  photographs from Tom Gaylord's 'Airgun Blog' & the two after that are from the " replica AirGun dot CA" AirGun review blog:

Here are two patent drawings of the original Luger :

I won an eBay auction for a new Umarex Legends P08 Luger Co2 4.5mm BB pistol for $110 CDN including shipping.
I only saved about ten dollars, but it was still kind of fun, and now I finally bought a Luger.
It should arrive in the next week or two since it is coming to me from New Hampshire, USA.

Vintage Japanese 'Model Gun' & AirSoft Guns photographs & Advertising

IZH-Baikal Airguns

This last air pistol is the IZH-Baikal MP-651k 4.5mm  Co2 pistol/carbine kit.
It is a dual ammo Co2 pistol, chambered for pellets/lead roundball or steel BB's.

Daisy "SoftAir" Replica Airguns?

Briefly, during the mid-80's, Daisy and a subsidiary manufacturer in Japan designed and manufactured a series of ultra-realistic "SoftAir" guns that were chambered for 6mm plastic ball ammo, not unlike the airsoft ammunition of today.
These Replica Airguns were perfectly designed for indoor target practice since they were rather accurate from 15 feet, and had a low muzzle velocity around 200 fps.
Unfortunately, I have heard that there were some incidents of Police shooting youths or children because they mistook these Daisy "SoftAir" guns for the real thing, and Daisy halted their production and importation, to avoid potential legal trouble.

This means the Daisy "SoftAir" series are very, very collectable, and their prices are many times their original cost.

Here is a pair of review articles by Trevor Adams in New Zealand from the late 80's: