Tweet
Thought I'd post up a couple of pics of my recent target practice with the Crossman GI 1911 BB Pistol. I bought the thing back in May, shot it once and packed it away because I just got busy over the summer and honestly forgot about it. So, it's been months since I've shot anything and the other night I pulled it out and went to the basement. Man I'm rusty!! There's no pics of that target practice, lol! Then the other day I saw a post USMC referenced (I think Clarence originally posted it) about trigger control and taking a long time to pull the trigger. Basically challenging yourself to see how long you can take to pull it. That and I saw a post about finger placement on the trigger on FB (don't remember who). Armed with that knowledge and some more BB's I tried again last night. slowing down the trigger pull time seemed to help but my shots were going off to the right even though I swear my sight picture was dead on. Then I changed the position of my finger on the trigger and combined that with a slow pull. Amazing results! Much more accurate!
As for the gun itself, it's really growing on me! It's all metal construction so it feels more like the real thing than a BB gun. Also, it has a blowback feature which provides a bit of recoil when firing. Not bad for $70 by any means! It also gets quite a bit from one CO2 cartridge. I get around 100 rounds from one cartridge. It also seems to retain a quite high FPS for CO2 blowback pistols. The review on Pyramid Air shows about 400 FPS but I did find one review where the guy was consistently getting 425-430 FPS until the cartridge started to run low but in his test it never went below 390 FPS. Here's a link to the gun if anyone's interested.
http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Crosma...BB_Pistol/3095
Also, here's the link to the other review with the high FPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYRLpYlMzQ
Now for the photos! I ran out of paper targets so just strung up a few old beer cans (which is more fun to shoot IMO) and this is the result of about 50 rounds at 10 yards. I entertained the thought of trying to saw the can in two but it was getting late, lol! I'm by no means a sharp shooter but I think this is pretty good for being out of practice and using a BB gun with no rifling in the barrel.
What say you Avid Arms?
Can_Front.jpg
Front of the can.
Can_Back.jpg
Back of the can.
As for the gun itself, it's really growing on me! It's all metal construction so it feels more like the real thing than a BB gun. Also, it has a blowback feature which provides a bit of recoil when firing. Not bad for $70 by any means! It also gets quite a bit from one CO2 cartridge. I get around 100 rounds from one cartridge. It also seems to retain a quite high FPS for CO2 blowback pistols. The review on Pyramid Air shows about 400 FPS but I did find one review where the guy was consistently getting 425-430 FPS until the cartridge started to run low but in his test it never went below 390 FPS. Here's a link to the gun if anyone's interested.
http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Crosma...BB_Pistol/3095
Also, here's the link to the other review with the high FPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYRLpYlMzQ
Now for the photos! I ran out of paper targets so just strung up a few old beer cans (which is more fun to shoot IMO) and this is the result of about 50 rounds at 10 yards. I entertained the thought of trying to saw the can in two but it was getting late, lol! I'm by no means a sharp shooter but I think this is pretty good for being out of practice and using a BB gun with no rifling in the barrel.
What say you Avid Arms?
Can_Front.jpg
Front of the can.
Can_Back.jpg
Back of the can.
Comment