The Crosman Powermaster 760...Recapturing my youth !

That’s a very clean-looking example of the first variant. Made from ‘66-70.

The refinish was not poorly done. I wouldn’t get too obsessed with high power and BBs. It’s a good bet that best accuracy with BBs will be with a light charge, say 3-5 pumps. 

I have a couple of later, self-cocking models and usually shoot pellets with 6-10 pumps. These guns were never designed to be powerhouses.

Good looking gun!

I had the same gun as a kid. Wish I still had it. Combination of bad advice and ignorance on my part as a kid basically trashed it by mishap.

Great post. Brings back great memories. I still have mine from the late 70’s. It was a Christmas gift from 1979 if I remember correctly. It has the brown plastic stock. Internals need a rebuild as it won’t hold air.

I saw that one on the eBay auctions. I'd already had several bid on, so I stuck with what I had. Nice one though. I'd shoot pellets rather than BB's in it. Especially with the later or fancier models. Like the 760XL & 761XL that have a rifled barrel. BB's are very hard on rifling. Bes8ides, pellets hit harder and shoot a bit straighter. You'll find the build date on the front of the barrel band end cap. 2-3 numbers for month and year. Mine read, " 60" on it, which is Crosman's code for 6/70, or June 1970. They didn't get serial numbers until after July 1975. And the barrels from the 761XL that are rifled are a direct fit to the 70's 760's.

The wood used is light colored, with grain structure like maple to me. Minwax oil stain #224, Special Walnut, matches it very closely. Here's my 760 Powermaster variant one after I restomodded it;



It has some 3-4 coats of Tru-Oil over that. The stain on the forestock is original, save for a clean-up and 1 coat of Tru-Oil. All steel has been stripped, polished and reblued, including screws. Mac1 seal/piston upgrade kit, NOS 761XL barrel, MOE 2.5" picatinny rails custom mounted to mount the Simmons 4x32 scope on Hawke low-rise match rings. It shoots a bit better than before, but not by much. Still good enough to hunt rabbits and pesting.

The tone of the butt stock color is like peekaboo painting. It gets lighter or darker depending on viewing angle. I won many 760's on eBay auctions. Like this VGC 760-25 25th commemorative rifle in excellent condition for 25-30 bucks.



And this 761XL that's in need of a seal kit, but otherwise in restorable condition;



So that's 10 760's I have, including one 760-derived 66AB Powermaster

Thanks. I have a lot more to show out of the 10 I currently have. Among others. Here's another shot of the butt stock on the 760v1 that shows up a little darker;



And here's a 760 variant 4 built Jan/77 with period-correct Weaver V22-A Dual X scope;



And the 66AB Powermaster. Only needed a small handful of NOS parts from Mike Baker at; [email protected];



A rare rather different NOS 760-BRD built Nov/02 with Copperhead red dot laser sight;

The link keeps taking me to a Daisy 880? And yes, the 18 stands for Jan/68. **Found it. Bidding ended yesterday. Too bad too. A variant one in VGC too, externally.

Hi all, I am new but have lurked for some time. I still have my 760 in the attic. A friend's brother trashed it in 77 and got it, cleaned it up and got another year out of it before the seals failed. This motivates me to break it down and rebuild it. I am not sure of the year though. It has a wooden forend with a solid plastic stock. I will pull it out tonight and if I can not detirmine the date of manufacture will posts pics.

Sounds like a 3rd variant (wood forearm/croswood/styrene stock) ‘74-‘75

The dates are right. I will order a kit. Thank you.

Hi Folks. I have a version 3. This is confirmed. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get one of those rifled barrels from a 761XL for it? Please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Now a little bragging ....Just rebuilt mine for the 2nd time in the 28 years since my grandfather gave it to me. 671 fps average over 12 shots. I pumped it 13 times. I pump this many times because I did a small mod to it. I removed the 1/2" long aluminum slug from the valve and replaced it with a spring twice the length of the original. This gave me more volume but it took more pumps to compress it to the normal pressure. I have no (shooting) pressure built up until the 3rd pump hence 13 pumps and occasionally 1 or 2 more. It is very accurate at 112 feet using a scope. I bagged a 21 lb. wild tom a month ago at that approx. distance... shot it through the head.



I'm thinking it would be more accurate at an even greater range with that 761XL barrel on it, that is if I could find one. Oh well, here's hoping.



Bye for now,

Biznawich

P.S.- I live in New Mexico at approx. 5400 ft. alt.. No humidity most of the time just thin, cool, very dry air...this likely helps my old timers performance. It certainly helps mine and I'm over sixty.

Hey Biz, I did exactly the same mod, years back! Removed the alum spacer and added another spring...

I bought a rifled barrel from Bryan and Assoc, and chopped it. Rifled barrels for the old self-cockers are hard to find, anymore.

Good morning Skillet. Nice looking shorty. Did the chop affect the range/accuracy much?

Yeah I believe they're definitely hard to find. Would you happen to know if these barrels are available anywhere at all? Otherwise I'm going to try and have a gun shop push a button through it.



Thanks for any info. Skillet

Biz

Still shoots hard/accurate post chop.

Don’t know where to find a rifled barrel

Thanks Skillet. I haven't had any luck in my search in other arenas as well so....I think Ill buy a custom rifling button for $40 and hammer myself a rifled barrel

Biz

Look at the manual for the version of the rifle that has a rifled barrel. I'm pretty sure it gave the rate of twist? And I'd found two NOS 761XL barrels that a friend who repairs Crosman, Benjamin and others who bought out some inventory. A Cali shop owner died and he bought everything off Craig's list. He had two, so me and another Facebook group member scarfed them up. And I'd been searching everyday for 3 months a couple years ago!