Practical Accuracy out to 50 yds - Crosman 362

[@precisionrodentcontrol_PRC]

I’d recommend a good barrel cleaning with PatchWorm or something similar, no brass brushes. I loosened my barrel band grub screw, pumped it 8 times, snugged down the grub screw, think it helped. Mine loves H&N Terminators, 8 pumps, out to 30 yards, shoots dime groups at 25. I’ll probably upgrade with AA’s 362 RP valve combo this winter. Great video! Glad to see you getting her dialed in!

[@BoggWeasel]

Outstanding, shooting off hand. Off hand shooting shows if you're a rifleman or just a man with a rifle. Benching is ok for precision testing of sights and ammo but off hand is where the real shooting skills comes in to play. 😁👍👍👍👍👍

[@airgunsofalaska]

I totally agree! I remember in one of Hickok45’s videos he mentioned that and why he shoots the guns the way he does. He talked about shooting from a bench and how if you really, really wanted to know how accurate that particular rifle could be you’d really need to clamp in down in a vice or something similar. I know I’m more accurate and consistent offhand shooting pneumatics over springers or gas ram guns. PCP’s are also much easier to shoot offhand than springers.

[@BoggWeasel]

@@airgunsofalaska I used to shoot BPCR silhouette off hand, open sights, out to 400 yards. I had two Remington Rolling blocks, one in 30-30 and one in 7mm and sometimes I used my trap door Springfield in 45-70 . Great fun, lots of noise and smoke and the smell of gunpowder. Unfortunately, I had to give it all up because of health reasons and it's back to where I started all those years ago with air guns. except now I'm putting together a small collection of replica pistols, a horribly addictive ( for me) hobby .I was never into pistols at all, but I can't use my rifles where I live because of city codes and restrictions but I can shoot indoors. Range space is only 5 meter, definitely too short for rifle and that's how air pistol shooting started. Hickock has been on my "subs" list for years,, great channel and a real genuine guy. I like the old skool historical pieces he likes to show off. telling you all about them whilst popping targets. 😁

[@airgunsofalaska]

@@BoggWeasel 400 yds with open sights is bananas!🍌 🍌 I started reading an article about that sport. Pretty neat!

[@BoggWeasel]

@@airgunsofalaska Ain't it though. It's been described as the hardest shooting sport in which to get a perfect score of 40 (10x each chickens, pig, turkey, rams ). I used to cast my own bullets and make reloads and all my guns were pre 1892 originals, sad day when I let them go......

[@timesup4688]

Try JBS match Diablo, they're made in the Czech Republic. I'm using jumbo heavy diablo's 18.13 grains out of my 22 air rifle and it's pretty accurate at thirty yards. It's always a good idea to examine each pallet to make sure there's no damage to the skirt or or to the dome

[@airgunsofalaska]

I think I got a tin of those for Christmas. 👍 I’ve not yet tried them.

[@Cerrone1881]

JSB Hades are by far the most accurate in my 362.

[@marcnissen578]

Mine is like that also

[@trevorjameson3213]

Man you might try some of the Sig Venom roundnose pellets. They are a quality pellet, close to the quality of RWS or JSB I think. Anyway I don't know how well the Sigs would do in your Crosman, but in my 880 they shoot incredibly tight groups. Or maybe try some RWS R10 Match, I've had great luck with those too.

[@airgunsofalaska]

I just looked for some Sig Venoms on Amazon. I’ve got some Crosman Premier round nose heavy pellets to try out. I was really surprised by how much some pellets cost. The Remingtons in my video were less than $4 for a tin. I just found that I’d ordered them off Amazon in ‘16. Now I can’t find them anywhere in stock in the US. Lots of places in the UK have them but I don’t want to spend that kind of $. I like ordering from Amazon for free shipping. Because I’m in Alaska, most companies screw us over on shipping costs. Maybe I can find an RWS sampler pack?

[@e.k.5107]

Great vidéo !👍

[@airgunsofalaska]

@@e.k.5107 thanks!

[@Sanctified_Leather]

Try the .22 cal 19.0 Grain ultra heavy Crosman pellets.

[@airgunsofalaska]

Those are the ones that I received recently in the mail. I’m hoping to try them this weekend depending on weather conditions. They weren’t too bad in price. 👍

[@jasonnealey8325]

Are you aware that if you change magnification it changes the point of impact . I think for all 2nd focal plane scopes it changes the POI . Not certain about 1st focal plane , I think it stays same regardless of scope zoom .

[@airgunsofalaska]

I’d never heard of that until very recently when I watched an American Airgunner show and they discussed it. I’d need to watch that episode again as I didn’t understand the phenomenon very well, nor do I remember what did what. I do recall the one guy saying the steps to follow when adjusting the scope.

[@jasonnealey8325]

@@airgunsofalaska just zero in and shoot at same magnification and no issues , soon as you said you changed the zoom , I figured you would aim same place and miss . I think I saw same show you watched .

[@MONKEY-vi7hx]

Less pumps more pumps? Is this a duff barrel try the othe shorter one?

[@klip9859]

Wow nice shooting looks like you ended up with a band tine of pellets

[@petergalante584]

Mine does fairly well with the CPHPs. I have a 4x Bushnell on it and I can hit my metal Budweiser bottle hanging at 65ish yds almost every single time. My N.O.E. cast pellets at 19.6 grs do just as well.

[@airgunsofalaska]

Right on! 👍

[@trentbever1370]

Can you share a link to that scope. I just got my 362 and it groups sweet. The factory sight is just not as "tight" as I would like it.

[@AIRSTREAMRIFLES]

Dang Remington pellets not so bad you can find them online bud

[@airgunsofalaska]

Where? I’m not going to ship them from the UK. I’ve done Google searches and .22 cal Remington Express are out of stock or unavailable here in the USA.

[@AIRSTREAMRIFLES]

@@airgunsofalaska sorry that was 177 not .22

[@airgunsofalaska]

@@AIRSTREAMRIFLES yeah, unfortunately .177 is all I can find as well. So weird what can be out of stock or unavailable these days.

[@AIRSTREAMRIFLES]

@@airgunsofalaska yeah it’s insane these past years use to get any brand any weight any caliber now what you see is what you get but good thing they make so many different ammo to choose don’t make it feel left out

[@jdjohn4360]

RWS Superdome for now good price too about 7 bucks. Best I have used so far , the wadcutter type shows up best on paper and on the splash targets . Shoot on bro.

[@Richard-nq7dk]

Steel breech mod will secure your barrel and has 3/8 or 11mm dovetail

[@airgunsofalaska]

In this video I’d already modified my 362 with a steel breech.

[@LowkeyAirgunner]

Funny how the big brand pellet did the worst group! Maybe all they would need is a bit more speed... _[it seems like high power pcp ammo]_

[@airgunsofalaska]

😀 That might be? The results of that testing turned out pretty interesting to me. I should have noted in the video that all shots were done at full power but that’s only around 680 FPS or so.

[@tomcatt998]

Expect accuracy while shooting off hand ??

[@airgunsofalaska]

Hence the title “practical accuracy“

[@Alex-oy6wb]

Is that the Winchester 4x32? If so, how is it? See it in Amazon for $43

[@airgunsofalaska]

I just checked and it was a 2-7x32AO Winchester scope. I’m sure I ordered if off Amazon at some point. I don’t have any complaints about it but I’ve gone to higher magnification scopes since I bought it.

[@Alex-oy6wb]

@@airgunsofalaska thanks for sharing

[@alphakeshik1479]

I have had good results with the H&N Barracuda Hunter Extremes

[@airgunsofalaska]

Winter is a difficult time to shoot outdoors for me with the darkness and wind. But I’m planning to try out different pellets this spring. I’ll have to see if Amazon carries the Barracudas.

[@klip9859]

Check to make sure all the screws are tight

[@jimstewart5008]

It's hard to say a pellet is awful aside from being poor quality, it could be the pellet diameter, hard or soft lead, style, weight, and power of air rifle in use, I used to call different pellets garbage but found out over the years every barrel is different and sometimes a poor quality pellet will work remarkably well, especially with a pump gun you can shoot them at different speeds, a pellet might be all over the place at 500fps but at 600fps or 700 be deadly

[@airgunsofalaska]

Very good points. I wouldn’t be surprised to see better results if one was to put in the time and effort to find what they worked well in. But, for me, seems like Crosman Premiers work reasonably well in everything and I more often than not I just want to shoot and not have to test and experiment so many different things.

[@Relaxbadkneeadventures]

😉👍

[@hershelbutler6369]

Yea somthing isn't right a barrel cleaning idk cause maaaan mine is surprisingly accurate on my metal swingers quarter and half dollar size set out at 50yds

[@stanjenkins6039]

It's not really a fifty yard gun to begin with is it question mark

[@airgunsofalaska]

But until you try you don’t know. 😀👍

[@jimstewart5008]

Big difference between 50ft and 50 yards

[@airgunsofalaska]

Did I mess up something in a caption in the video? I’ve not watched it for a long time?

[@pezz_pezzer]

All the pellets you are using, except for the JSBs, are big box store average to low quality ammo. Never recommended for past 30 yards or so in any airgun. As many have mentioned in the comments you need to order a variety of H&N, JSB and their OEM brands make ammo for like Air Arms and FX. Just far better quality in regards to size and weight consistency which is the main problem with the pellets you are currently trying. My 100th Anniversary 362 likes the JSB Exact Jumbo Heavy 18.13 grain. Worse case I will put together a pellet sampler and send you some goodies. Great video and testing examples.

[@airgunsofalaska]

The problem is with me being in Alaska shipping costs for boutique pellets are cost prohibitive. I’ve gone through the process of filling my cart on Pyramid Air over $150 to get free shipping and whatever sales gimmick they had going on with including free pellets when you order X amount and shipping is always around $50+. You go to the small print and Pyramid and everyone else exclude Alaska, Hawaii and US Territories. It pisses me off the Pyramid and others don’t put the pellets in a flat rate box, it’s no different packing a flat rate box as a regular box and they mail out just the same. So I order my pellets from Amazon with free shipping but not the largest selection. The other thing I’ve noticed time and time again is often times these expensive boutique pellets don’t provide greatly improved results or often don’t do ANY better. I’ve now got numerous tins of JSB’s and they’ve not proven to be a wonder pellet. I have a feeling a guns barrel is by far the most important aspect as my German made guns shoot excellent no matter what the pellet. I’m not saying pellets don’t matter but I’ve found a guy could easily spend a small fortune on boutique pellets when he’d be better off buying a different gun that is happy shooting cheap, run of the mill pellets accurately. Thanks for checking out my channel! I’m planning to test the concept above in a future video(s) once my newest gun is finally shipped out and arrives.

[@ilijabosnjak76]

I would love to have that gun in.22 but my Nazi government (Canada) doesn’t let me,it’s over 500fps and I would need gun license which is pain in the arsenal to obtain,specially now when they want to ban everything..It sucks…

[@airgunsofalaska]

Damn! It’s just bananas that even pellet guns are restricted there.

[@ilijabosnjak76]

@@airgunsofalaska You my friend,are last bastion of freedom,did you notice every British colonies are banning citizens to poses and obtain guns,Australia,New Zealand and now Canada 🇨🇦,that’s not coincidence,that’s planned,take away arms from the people so they can’t defend themselves…

[@airgunsofalaska]

@@ilijabosnjak76 I have been noticing that and it’s so unfortunate. We’d be the exact same way and it’d likely have happened if we didn’t have the 2nd Amendment. Our country spends too little on mental health care so the fricking loons are killing innocent people and the remaining law abiding citizens are punished. Even though the US was a former colony of Britain our history and attitudes are very different than the UK or it’s former commonwealth countries. Hopefully we don’t lose our independent nature.