To continue with the Anschutz theme
Crosman 6300/ Anschutz 333.
Purchased from David Enoch at the Midwest Airgun Show earlier this month.
I went through the standard ritual of teardown and refurb, refreshing and rejuvenating. The OG leather seal was in fantastic shape, the spring was straight and there was very little moly grease smeared around. A pleasant surprise, as usually one expects to find globs of gunk and copious amounts of whatever grease was used.
Once sorted, the sight set up needed addressed.
This unit, while serviceable, was not cutting it. My eyesight, and personal preference, requires the installation of some sort of peep sight. The Anschutz rear was drifted out of its transverse dovetail, and I started on a work around.
An 11mm Weihrauch diopter goes right on, and the Weihrauch stop pin engages the stop pin holes in the Anschutz receiver perfectly. The only rub with that set up is, you now have a diopter hanging off the rear of the receiver tube, and it ruined the lines of the rifle. I wanted a light sporter, not a half breed match rifle. For the same reason, I did not want to source another 6706 Anschutz sight for this rifle.
The work around for that situation is a Williams peep sight.
I happened to have a pair of these Williams sights laying in spare rear sight box. This one was purchased with the OEM set screws missing, so it was drilled and tapped for 10/32 brass set screws to return it to serviceable condition.
The one that I used was modified slightly.
The front set screw was removed, the hole was opened up with a .213 or #3 drill bit, and tapped for a 1/4-28 X 1/4 set screw.
The 1/4-28 screw engages the rearmost stop pin hole in the receiver nicely, and a small piece of shim stock was used under the rearmost OEM set screw to avoid marring the receiver.
End result is satisfaction with the sight line, and minute of squirrel head accuracy at 25 yds.
IMO, the 333 gives up very little to its big brother, the 335. I have not noticed any detriment associated with the lack of the locking barrel latch so far, and the accuracy is same same between the two rifles.
Again, this is my opinion, but the Crosman 6300/ Anschutz 333 rivals my infatuation with the Weihrauch 50 or 50S. It is a very easy rifle to shoot accurately, has the oomph for pesting at sensible range, and is light and lively in hand. If it came with a grooved forearm, I would declare it the equal of the HW.
