Finally found my 760 Powermaster!

[Guest]

Yup, you read right. My wife was all too happy to help my partly crippled behind to search my side of The Closet Of Lost Gold for some more hidden treasures in it's dusty antechambers. It's a variant one, dated June 1968 by the "68" on the pump tube end cap. The original box is missing, but we did​ find it in this one. I'm sure my son will love getting it back. In complete and original condition, it fired a couple times on 5-8 pumps before quitting on me again. So it'll get a mac1 seal kit with the updated piston. I'll also be modifying a Weaver/Picatinny rail to mount the 4x32 Centerpoint scope I have extra from the Optimus .22 I bought my son. I took these pics while unboxing it for the first time in decades! *PS- The other rifle seen in the pics is the Crosman Optimus .22 I bought my youngest son for his birthday. Was just giving it it's first bath!

 

[crittahitta]

All metal and wood. I have the same one from when I was a kid. Not as good of shape though. I was rough with mine. I had it resealed at crosman a long long time ago but it only lasted about a week or two. Now i keep that and my first rocker safety sheridan (also dead) in the basement just to remind me of when i was a kid.

 

[Guest]

Nice story. Mac1 has seal kits with piston upgrade I'm getting for mine. Going to do a partial restoration as well. I bought it @ age 13 with newspaper route money I'd saved up. I was already taught to shoot the " spoils of war" dad brought back from WWII. Besides theory and proper care and maintenance. And speaking of The Closet Of Lost Gold, here's a video homage to In Search Of I did about all I've found in there- 

 

[Jeffhalfrack]

Nice collections! ,,,,how about a how to video on the reseal of the 760? Or a run down just found one of my 760's too thanks JeffW 

 

[Guest]

I will indeed do a restomod video for the 760! I did a series of videos for the 160 Pellgun, variant one on my Youtube channel (unionrdr's channel). Came out beautiful! I'll also be making a butt plate for the 760 from scratch I'll show as well. Gonna be along the lines of the butt plate on an 1892 Winchester. I'll start that one next month when I can afford the seal/piston upgrade kit from mac1. It'll be great to get her shooting again. And hopefully...more power! R-R-R!

 

[Guest]

Sorry y'all have to wait so long, but bills are breaking my back. I'll do the restoration video asap...

 

[Jonah]

You can find rebuild videos on Youtube for the 760.

 

[Guest]

Mine will be more in-depth, as bluing and custom butt plate shaping will be involved. Also, last Saturday a fellow member of GTA.org sent me-free-another 760! This model, a 760-D Pumpmaster built April 1998. I cleaned it up with Birchwood/Casey cleaner-degreaser and rubbed it with Rem-Oil. Looks a lil better now. Needs rust removal/rebluing though. Added my old 70's Weaver DualX 3-6x18 scope to it, as factory sights are wanting. Front press-on one is loose. Otherwise, shoots well. This member's friend's friend fished it out of a trashcan, then they passed it along between each other. He then passed it to me. Felt so sorry for the poor thing. Treated like a common mutt! But, what's more lovable, more loyal...than the mutt?! Forlorn, forgotten, unloved, ...shunned. No more! It's barrel is about 1 1/2 inches shorter than the 760 v1's. See second pic.

 

[Guest]

Well, after shooting my three lightest tins of pellets at Gamo targets, only some 3 yards in the man cave, here's the results of some target plinkin' through the Weaver scope and holdin' over pretty serious.
Beeman silver bear, 7.1gr;

H&N sniper light, 7.5gr;

​JSB exact express, 7.87gr;

 

[jamieinmd]

I just picked up two Sheridan Blue Streaks. One pre 72, the other 79. 

 

[Guest]

Well, I got the rifled 761xl NOS barrel from Mike Baker last Monday. The mac1 seal/piston kit came yesterday. Barrel is in VGC, and the seal kit has a nice-size bottle of their secret sauce as well!

 

[Guest]

Sun finally peeked a couple hours ago! now when camera battery charges, I can start filming the 760 V1 Powermaster restoration. I'll be cleaning, polishing and bluing the NOS 761xl barrel first. Then, when that's cured and ready, I'll start taking the rifle apart on video.

 

[Jeffhalfrack]

Nice I've been waiting for this thanks jeffw

 

[Guest]

Here ya go!; 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltip3mlbusw

 

[Guest]

And here's a pic of the NOS 761xl barrel so far after first cleaning, polishing before first coat of Perma-Blue;

​Will need t buy more Perma-Blue, cleaner/degreaser and rust/bluing remover before I can continue though. Gotta shoot video along the way and finish the new barrel before mac1 kit install.

 

[Guest]

I've since filmed restoration video parts 2 and 3. Sorry I took so long, but had to wait to get paid, pay bills, get parts and supplies. So here are the next two installments;

And part 3;

​I hope y'all get something from these videos. More to come, and I need to do something special for the next video, my 50th installment of Airgun Shooter?...

 

[Guest]

Well, so much for the B/C Super Blue. What junk, it left oil-on-water chemical marks, thin, uneven no matter how hard I tried finish. Gotta find a couple bottles of Perma-Blue. That worked better for about a dollar more per bottle. So this will be the 3rd time around trying to get the polished barrel and front/rear sights blued properly.
​I even cleaned and rearranged the area around my desk yesterday, while waiting for our son to get off work to go shopping @ Walmart. I of course wound up in the air gun isle. Joe and Kenny oughta love this! As usual, I couldn't find any .22-.25 cleaning jags or .243-.25 patches. So I turned to the other side of the isle on my broke-back buggy to look at the scopes. Hanging on the $21.97 rack was a couple Simmons 4x32 scopes that are about the same as the Centerpoint 4x32's I couldn't find in a days search of the internet. Seems there's a game afoot, since Crosman was the only sight that had any. And there price of only a week ago of $41.99 is now up to $49.99! I said to myself, funk that and waited until we went to Walmart to shop. The Simmons scope wound up costing $29.97 by the cash register's reckoning. Still better than the $49.99 Crosman wanted for virtually the same scope. Saved 20 bucks. Here's a couple pics for your air rifle pic fix...

​And, for comparison purposes, my Crosman 160 Pellgun with the Centerpoint 4x32 mounted;

 

[Guest]

I also have the 2 1/2 inch Picatinny mounts to put on top of the receiver to mount the scope.

And the cross-sectional view;

​I'm wondering if these Hawke 1" Weaver lowrider rings will work with these AR15 Picatinny rails?

 

[Guest]

The restoration/modification is coming along rather slowly. But here are parts 4 and 5 of the resto on the 760 v1;

And the latest, part 5;

​I'm going to move away from the cosmetics for the next ones and get the rifle apart and start on the internal upgrades and modifications. That should speed things up some?

 

[AK47MAN]

I had the 760 and the 760 Powermaster back around 1972-73. It was a good beginners
rifle but nothing collectible. Smooth bore and not accurate back then...And now...After 
they both went belly-up in less than a year; I bought a Benjamin pump 177cal. Now that
gun was awesome AND collectible...!! I also bought a Benjamin 1967 model 312 that a
friend of mine found in his attic of a house he bought...Gave him twenty dollars...(1987)
and sent it off to Benjamin in Racine, WI. Total refurb. Back then it was fifty bucks...
It is like new and I still shoot it....Weekly....