Crosman No more 2240?

[Sawney Bean]

Amen to that
If it was such a good pistol to begin with why did it open up another industry for the upgraded parts.
Yes it was a basic pistol and very cheap but by the time you finished buying this and that from the modified parts bin the only thing original was probably the handle frame lol.
The barrels were very accurate to be fair and maybe the best part.
You could spend an absolute fortune on these things and still be more frustrated after adding the new parts that you would spend more money buying someone else's parts to correct the one before .
You may have well just bought the hw44 and saved some money lol.
Yep they watched us suckers coming from miles away
I have the Chinese add on to convert it to hpa so only thing original is trigger frame/ breech / and barrel the original trigger needs to be modified .
And to be fair its very good for just over £120 uk .
And the drop block version with new unstamped tube with tube to face of the valve gmac custom style which costs twice as much.
And the bog standard version which I wish I would of stopped with in the first place lol and saved a small fortune
The words run away spring to mind every time I hear the crosman name lol.
I rest my case with the man above avator

I've thought they were very long in the tooth for ages now. 25 years ago, they were the bees knees. They were modular and the only product that was really competing with them were the QB rifles which were themselves a Crosman knockoff. Crosman never really stepped up it's game though. They should have been marketing all of the upgrades themselves and selling anodized aluminum parts in different colors, adjustable triggers, threaded barrels, different grips, etc... Just look at what the Taiwanese have managed to do with fake wood. They have plastic now that looks just like real wood even up close. The polymers are really good too, so why would you stick with cheap looking plastic on anything? They could sell good looking fake wood grips for $20 a set all day long. Same thing with their plastic breaches, cheap sights and barrels and microscopic breach screws, safety springs and ball bearings.

They should have been turning the 22xx/13xx/3xx series of guns into the AR15 of airguns and marketing it as an upgradeable platform rather than as a dirt cheap toy. Imagine what they could have done if they were the ones constantly coming out with performance upgrades for their guns and were sponsoring youtubers to show off their custom builds and the performance they were able to get out of them.

 

[jkingrph]

I have several, all what you could call semi custom. Some with aftermarket valve parts, all with either supersears or 1701p triggers installed, aluminum sideplates, and aftermarket wood grips. They were built up for myself, my son and grandson. Most of that was pre covid or during that period. At one point I was trying to get the 1701p grip assembly and actually had to call and order all the individual parts from Crosman, then I found some completed assemblies on ebay which was a lot simpler. I probably worked over about eight before I stopped. Only ever had one problem and that was a CO2 cart sticking in the tube which was a pain to get out. I'm thinking if I ever have that happen again I will cut an access port in the side of the tube so I can easily pry it out. I did find that by polishing the piercing needle to a mirror finish it seems to have eliminated the problem.

 

[Avator]

I don't think I could put a price on the hours of fun I had just tinkering with these guns.

 

[6gun]

I think they were a GREAT gun at the price point. Once you know of the aftermarket, it makes them insanely expensive for what they are, but you can build what you want. For a co2 can plinker or rabbit buster for the garden they were fine in stock form.

Im bored and taking my 12 inch barreled steel breech 2240 that ran co2 and was a standby for me and my buddies years back for shooting empties on dual sport rides and putting a chinesium bottle pcp lower conversion on it to be a short 22 to compliment my absolute unit of a 177 disco(headshot machine for squirrels)

The irony being ive got everything covered and my fx guns are "calculator guns" and they just hit what you want. They're too powerful. I can't be doing pesting squirrel favors with 70+fpe in 22.

The short of it is they're great because they could be all the gun they needed to be and easily brought up to spec to do so. I'm trying to build my crosman hoarde before the market is all chinesium different spec stuff. Also I have extreme nostalgia for them having started with a 1377 American classic rear crocker I still own. I think crosman is being spiked by daisy with the merger.

 

[Slantsigfan]

Late to the party, as usual. Didn’t know the Custom Shop closed and wondered why the 2240 was off Crosman’s website. Tired of my 12 year old mishandling the R8 so I decided these would be perfect. Whoops.

I have a 2240 that took the Custom Shop over 6 months to build during the quarantine. Decided to start fooling around with valves and had trouble sourcing some parts that got knocked off the workbench, into the great abyss.

Managed to pick up a clean 2260 with seals so now I’m off to double the purchase price with steel breech, trigger, valve, etc.

 

[WobblyHand]

Late as well, but managed to pick up a 2240 back when Amazon marked them down to $45. It was shipped in a cardboard box, rather than a plastic clam shell. A box is so much nicer than those plastic clam shells.

I made my own SSG and installed it. You get a decent amount of shots per cartridge, due to not burping out gas after the projectile has left the barrel. Need to get a steel breech for it, or something like that. The front sight is crooked, seems they installed the barrel off kilter. (Flat in the barrel was not installed level.). Not a big deal, but kind of annoying. Machined a moderator adapter to tone it down slightly, it's quite civil now.