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Crosman Pumpmaster

There's really no point in shooting pellets out of a smoothbore rifle, IMO. Either give it a rifled barrel, or don't bother advertising it for pellets.

As a kid, I had a Pumpmaster and my brother had the 66 Powermaster. I always wondered why it was so much easier to hit the best pirds with his gun than mine. I attributed it to his having the cheapo 4X scope, where I had iron sights. Now I know better.
 
The 760 I have had since 1985 is the wood & metal anniversary 760....(has a rifled barrel).





Many years the 760 had a rifled barrel:


This was from a thread on another forum (post was from 2003)
Model 760 Powermaster
  • First variant. Wood stock and grooved wood forearm, brass bolt, smooth bore 1966-1970
  • Second variant with styrene stock & forearm & scope mount groove, brass bolt. Checkering on forearm 1971-1974
  • Third variant, self-cocking w/styrene stock & smooth wood forearm. 1974-1975
  • Fourth variant w/ABS stock & forearm. 1975-1977
  • Fifth variant w/manual cocking. Brass handle for bolt smooth bore 1977-1980
Model 760XL Powermaster brass finish on receiver and fancier plastic stock, rifled barrel 1978-1980
  • Sixth variant w/plastic bolt. metal receiver, rifled barrel 1980-1983
  • Seventh variant w/plastic receivers & w/welded sights. 1983-1991
Model 760/20 Pneumatic, BB repeater, .177 cal., single shot pellet. 20th year commemorative metal receiver, rifled barrel. 1985
Model 760B Pneumatic, BB repeater, .177 cal. single shot pellet. (Model 760 w/ black stock & forearm) rifled barrel 1988-present
  • Eighth variant w/shortened barrel w/pressed on sights. Rifled barrel 1991-present
  • Ninth variant w/fiber optic front sight and 5 shot manual clip. smooth bore 1991-present
Hi Ed!
 
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Im holding my 760 pump master I received as a kid and man does it look beautiful and by that pig ugly but you know only a face a mother would love and i do love it and to me it is beautiful every mark is a story and I had a hell of a lot of fun with this gun. Ill post pics of it later... 

Holly crap I think I can see riffling in mine... this makes me even happier... I just hope all those brad nails i shot out of it as a kid didn't mess it up to bad hahaha