The lowly MSP....poor pumper.

[fpgt72]

If you are an old fart like me....you likely started on a multi pump, or MSP....Daisy 880, crosman 766, Sheridan.....you name it, we likely all started our gun journey here, and not with the red ryder.....if you came of age in the late 60's early 70's. Mine was a Crosman 766. Not sure what happened to it likely my mother tossed it st sometime.

Anyway....I still have a large soft spot in my heart for the MSP, and have a few....5 I think....and would love to find a 22x, it would fit in nice with my 2200 Magnums...I have two, one chrome one in the black.

Anyhoo anyone still have a love for the pumpers, I sure do, but due to some health issues pumping is hard for me....but I sure do enjoy them.

They seem to get the short end of the stick....but I have found even the new 2100 to be very acceptable. I did about 5 shots (about all I could do) and found it to be very good at 25 yards....and over the chrono at 550-ish fps with JSB heavy (what mine likes).

I think much of the issue with these unloved guns are the garbage pellets they get fed. Like any air rifle....really any rifle, the ammo makes a great deal of difference.

So anyone have love of the lowly MSP....we all know the benji's 39x series are good guns, anyone....anyone....Bueller.....Bueller?

 

[JohnL57]

Sure-my first real airgun was a Crosman 101?

It was in rough shape but shot well. Mine was the rarer .177 caliber. I passed it on a year or two back to my friend who was responsible for giving me my first bb gun back in 1970.
I now have a 1322 which I shoot quite a bit, as well as a couple Sheridans which I don't shoot much.

Before

After
This one was rescued from a trash can, my son and I rebuilt it and re-stocked it

 

[Chachoze]

Well if I could find large enough ammo to fit my 22cal Benji 392 I probably would love it more....I'm thinking I am going to have order some of that older style British 5.60 pellets they used back in the day but it doesn't look like any easy way of getting it... that is without paying through the nose for shipping.

 

[JohnL57]

Chachoze, Have you tried RWS superdomes?

 

[Chachoze]

I believe so, in my experience RWS pellets tend to be on the small side on head diameter. The bore seems exceptionally large, I can insert the head of a jsb into the muzzle where it should contact the rifling and feel slop between the head and rifling. Even pushing one through from the breech shows little in the way of rifling marks.

Someone once mentioned Eunjin pellets being on the larger side but they seem to heavy for a standard pumper.

 

[fpgt72]

One of my crosmans really love JSB heavy pellets.

Has anyone tried the NXG, this is I think one of the newest MSP rifles out on the market....at around $50 I really want to give one a go.....no one really gives these low end rifles a fair shake, might be interesting to see how they do.