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PCP - HPA - C02 Gate => Crosman Discovery Forum => : January 31, 2008, 05:11:35 PM
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Came home from school expecting a box, but nope, it hadn't arrived yet. So I sat on my porch waiting to see the brown truck come up the hill. Eventually, at about 4:40 it arrived. The box was gigantic. Seriously, it was as tall as me, and I'm 5'11". After getting through the first box, I found a flashy benjamin sheridan box. It had multi color diagrams pointing out all the key features. And it was branded with the '1500 fps' claim. Well I quickly, but gently, opened up the box and pulled out the styrafoam mold and unveiled the beautiful super streak. It did, in fact, come with the 4-16x40 scope premounted. But there was a ton of mystery goo around the base of the mounts so I had to take that off to remove the goo and clean the rails. All the scopes accesories came in a plastic bag, the cleaning cloth, extra battery, instructions and mildot chart, and the flip up caps were already mounted. The rifle looked very sleek right out of the box.
This is my first wood stocked rifle so I don't have anything to put the stock up against, but I would give it a 7/10. It feels lice and looks good, but there are definitely scratch marks and some minor dings. The checkering, imo, is well done. The finish looks nice, but again this is coming from a complete amateur. I tried to take a picture of some of the scratch marks on the stock. There are more of those around the corners of the stock, but you can't notice them unless you are looking for them. The butt pad is a comfortable ventilated rubber piece with horizontal treads on the back. The cheek piece is higher than my gamo shadow, but it is comfortable for use with the scope.
I took apart the rifle after inspecting the stock. I am new to this aspect of air rifles too, so all I can say is it looked similar to my gamo shadow. There was the same layout of cocking lever, and some other lever thing that attaches to the trigger block. The trigger also looked of that of my gamo. More on the trigger later. Thats about all I have to say about the action.
After I put the rifle back together, and remounted the stock, I went outside to fire off a few rounds. I don't have anything to clean barrels with, so I couldn't clean it. The first shot dieseled and so did the next few. The dieseling was over within a dozen shots, but the firing cycle was very rough.
I'm tired now, but I will give a much more detailed report later. Here are some pictures. Parting note, the breech seal is very, pecuilar (sp). It looks like someone molded super glue into an 'O' shape and stuck it on the breech. And the trigger pull is terrible. And a picture of the gunrack I built a few days ago.
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Thanks for sharing Josh.. It sure has purdy wood on her. Keep us informed and by all means get a GRT-III trigger for her...:)
Gene
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Congratulations Josh,
I look forward to your review of this new baby ! She looks sweet !
I wish you the best of luck with her..
Bill
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She's a sweetheart Josh and I'm a sucker for a T-hole stock.:) Very interested in the fps#'s if you got a chrony and please keep us updated on her performence. Nice gunrack also and if you want to keep the barrel's of you babies cozy go down to the craft/hobby store and grab some of the felt with the adhesive backing for the barrel notch's. I used the black hobby foam myself on my gunrack, cut to fit and a touch of glue. It will keep the barrel's from getting scratched from rubbing against the wood, just a idea. :) Ed
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Big and nice isin't it Josh?
And it feels dam good. I held one of these the other day at a Sporting goods store. I'm really impressed with it's fit and finish.
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hello guys new to the forum,
i also recently purchased a benjamin super streak only i bought it from dicks sporting goods and they name it the elite power master. same gun. i know some of you guys mentioned the chronograph numbers on the .177 .after shooting several hundred rounds out of my rifle i shot several different pellets through the chronograph.these numbers are only the highs and not averages.beeman silver bear 7.1 grains........1152 fps , gamo 7.7 gr....1096 fps , rws meister 8.2 gr....1047 fps , crosman premair hollow point 7.9 gr....1082 fps , crosman premair destroyer 7.9....1062 fps , crosman lead free....1442 fps , gamo raptor pba gold....1259fps, this air rifle is very accurate and the only thing i would change is the trigger which i am doing to the grt 111 .this gun pretty much keeps up with my gamo hunter extreme.