New to me Crosman 160

[RickH]

Evening everyone,

Friday I was able to pick up a beautifully restored Crosman 160 in .22. It uses two 12 mg co2 cartridges. It’s been modified to use 10 round Marauder magazines and has a single shot block as well. I’m told it’s grouping sub moa at 25 yards with three different pellet weights. It came with a Bushnell AR 2-7 32mm sidefocus scope and a nice padded case. It’s a great looking rifle and absolutely hits my interest in classics. I hope to step out tomorrow and give it a go. Sorry about the crappy photo. At the $300-ish price I’m pretty sure I stole it. I wonder if I can split a card with it. We’ll see.

Rick H.

 

[rwsmike]

I had many crosman 160s and I actually had a ted williams 160 that I was told all TW versions had barrels made by Remington which wasn't far from crosman factory.

 

[rwsmike]

Forgot to say yours looks great

 

[marflow 777]

after digging around it looks like Archer sold the breech and with the scope and bag and mags it was a good deal for sure
but is it a model 160 anymore sort of and sort of not
interesting Hybred
https://www.airgundepot.com/air-venturi-qb-78-repeater-upgrade-kit-22-caliber.html

 

[KWK]

Crosman was really retarded for not putting scope grooves on theirs. Not even a butt plate on half their co2 rifles. Cheap. I used the barrel screw hole to hold a front base and epoxied the rear base (made them) to accommodate 11mm rings on my 160 3rd. Still on there over 25 years later. At least the gun has a good trigger. I have one or two with the Mossberg sight too. I have so many 160, 400, 150, mk1 and 2, 600's, 622. I don't even know.

 

[Treefrog]

Nice rifle! Congrats.

I'd love to see how well it shoots.

J~

 

[rwsmike]

The ted William model had scope grooves

 

[KWK]

Yeah, have some. And their 180 version is way cool.

 

[WECSOG]

Nice! I love the old Crosman co2 rifles. My first airgun was a 180. I don't have any of the vintage ones right now, but I do have a QB78 and a QB79 which are 160 clones.

 

[RickH]

I got to shoot it today, finally. Took a minute to figure the magazine loading procedure and at first I was doing it backwards but I figured it. Shooting at 15 meters and about 25 yards I got consistent 1/8-3/8” groups at both distances. I was shooting without any stabilizing other than my arms and suspect it could do better from a bench. Using a pair of 12g cartridges I got about 50 consistent shots before power started dropping off. About the same as my match rifle. Overall I’m extremely pleased with this old rifle.

Rick H.

 

[Septicdeath]

Nice rifle

 

[AirNGasman]

I've owned about a dozen 160s. Have serious doubts about Remington barrels, especially considering vintage Crosman barrels shoot lights-out. The only 160 I still own is this Sears & Roebuck Ted Williams Match Rifle model-

As documented in the photo and my writings, TW embarrassed many-a .177 TX200, HW97, and Whiscombe in NRA Silhouette competitions in the 1980s and 90s. It has factory scope grooves... that are so shallow as to be practically worthless. So I hawked scope mounts for decades to scope several otherwise unscopeable vintage Crosman models.

Ted came to me in rougher cosmetic condition than I usually consider buying; but after refinish of the wood and metalwork it proved itself beyond anyone's liveliest imagination. Even mine!

I found it pretty hilarious how few competitors expressed the slightest curiosity about the fifty year old .22 Co2 rifle that sold brand new for $21.95; before OR after it kicked their butts. Now find it hilarious how many contemporary airgunners discount all Co2 guns as nothing more than kid toys.

Partly to prove it no fluke, a couple decades later I converted a $19.95 .177 Crosman 187 Co2 rifle into a regulated HPA-bottle pistol to embarrass more 'performance at ANY price', superfluously-armed competitors in field target competitions.

Long stretching airgun accuracy testing beyond usual bounds, I'm sure some folks don't/won't believe the truth about vintage Crosman accuracy capabilities. My Ted Williams 160 consistently averages 7/8" five-shot groups at 50 yards. The 187 pistol consistently averages .67" five-shot groups at fifty yards. No brag or speculation; well-documented FACT.

LOVE them vintage Crosmans!