Crosman Crosman 160

[wrenchhead944]

Hi,
First post.
I have shot BB and pellet guns since the late 60's .
We , the wife and I shot 22 and shot gun competition in the 90's .
Life got in the way .
30 years later here we are.

I recently picked up a Crosman 160
It needs the safety switch replaced , the thumb tab is missing.
It is , from what I have found out so far , it is an early model .

The safety is in the rear "plug" I think it is called a thumb safety .

I was hoping someone on here might have one or could possibly steer me towards one .

Also, I am looking for manuals too.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time
Brian Thomas
Black Dog Vintage Racing

 

[Treefrog]

Welcome to the board. That's a cool rifle!

https://www.jgairguns.biz/ probably has the part that you need. Heather should be able to help you.

The china-made QB78 is a copy of the Crosman 160 and has a large following. There's a lot of info out there on modifications and improvements that can be made to that rifle. Mine is regulated so that it gets over ninety shots from a pair of cartridges.

Cheers,

J~

 

[AirNGasman]

Welcome to the forum, Brian.

I had to check out Black Dog Vintage Racing (COOL!) to see if you are my cousin Brian Thomas in Spur, Texas. You aren't.

But being the most highly-experienced Crosman 160 shooter alive (still), thought I'd share some 160 information. Sorry I don't know where you'll find a safety, spring and ball for your 1950's vintage, second-generation (of three) 160, but suffice to say cyberspace is a pretty big place; and occasionally a decent resource. Hopefully JG Airguns has a safety for it. Worst case scenario, you might have to locate a parts gun.

However I consider Crosman 160s well worthy of resurrecting, assuming the rifling isn't damaged. 1940s - 70's vintage Crosman barrels are capable of finer accuracy than most folks would imagine, and the same vintage Co2 Crosmans are capable of higher performance than many would believe (without proof).

My 160 was in rougher condition than I usually mess with, but being a Sears & Roebuck Ted Williams Match Rifle variant of your 160 I refinished the stock, added a rubber butt-pad, had the metalwork bead-blasted and blued, and used it to beat the best NRA Air Rifle Silhouette competition shooters weilding the finest European and British spring-piston rifles available in the late 1990's/Y2K to capture two NRA National Record certificates and a Texas State Champion title. She still shoots 3/4" groups at 50 yards.

Here are my testing notes-
View attachment TW Excerpt pdf.pdf

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[wrenchhead944]

Welcome to the board. That's a cool rifle!

https://www.jgairguns.biz/ probably has the part that you need. Heather should be able to help you.

The china-made QB78 is a copy of the Crosman 160 and has a large following. There's a lot of info out there on modifications and improvements that can be made to that rifle. Mine is regulated so that it gets over ninety shots from a pair of cartridges.

Cheers,

J~

Thanks for the info .

 

[wrenchhead944]

Welcome to the forum, Brian.

I had to check out Black Dog Vintage Racing (COOL!) to see if you are my cousin Brian Thomas in Spur, Texas. You aren't.

But being the most highly-experienced Crosman 160 shooter alive (still), thought I'd share some 160 information. Sorry I don't know where you'll find a safety, spring and ball for your 1950's vintage, second-generation (of three) 160, but suffice to say cyberspace is a pretty big place; and occasionally a decent resource. Hopefully JG Airguns has a safety for it. Worst case scenario, you might have to locate a parts gun.

However I consider Crosman 160s well worthy of resurrecting, assuming the rifling isn't damaged. 1940s - 70's vintage Crosman barrels are capable of finer accuracy than most folks would imagine, and the same vintage Co2 Crosmans are capable of higher performance than many would believe (without proof).

View attachment 555922

My 160 was in rougher condition than I usually mess with, but being a Sears & Roebuck Ted Williams Match Rifle variant of your 160 I refinished the stock, added a rubber butt-pad, had the metalwork bead-blasted and blued, and used it to beat the best NRA Air Rifle Silhouette competition shooters weilding the finest European and British spring-piston rifles available in the late 1990's/Y2K to capture two NRA National Record certificates and a Texas State Champion title. She still shoots 3/4" groups at 50 yards.

Here are my testing notes-
View attachment 555932

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Very cool 160. Nice work, great job shooting competition . Thanks for the info.