I've never viewed your channel before, so I settled down this evening, for a highly intellectual, and serious, description of some ballistic engineering. Anyone who describes an object as a, "Rear sight slidey thing," is spot on level with my understanding! I immediately subscribed, thank you, young sir!
Have one....99 euros....and then bought the steel breech-block and a comp and fitted some aftermarket custom grips...a gentleman in Madrid charged me 30 euros and they are gorgeous!!! Have a Benjamin Marauder pistol and removed all the plastic and fitted some walnut grips he made....stunning gun! The 2240 is my ONLY CO2 gun that doesn't loose ANY gas...ever! Trigger needs customising....the Marauder has a beautiful trigger so it can be done! Cool Sir!!!
Crosman made some great pistols. I've had 2240, but got fed up of buying CO2 for it. Went for a 1377 pump pistol and love it. Currently being converted into a PCP as I'm getting too old for the pumping malarkey 🤔
Huge fan of these, so many add ons and bling options. I've one with a side lever ten shot magazine and others with brass or stainless steel tubes and barrel sleeves. eBay a good place to start, but there used it before a couple of great Facebook groups also
Very nice👍 Love what you did to improve the shot cycle. I put a 2250 barrel on mine along with a longer 2260 main tube. Added a “bulk fill” adapter on the end which allowed me to fill the main tube with CO2 and eliminate the need for CO2 cartridges. Happy shooting!
For me it was a multipump 1377 pistol i spend hundreds converting into a backpacker with a flat top piston loads of brass bits, a williams diopter sight and a brass muzzle with sight pin, 16inch .22 barrel, brilliant little thing it is. Hits like a damn train for something that looks and feels like a toy.
I modded up my 2240 with parts from the UK, but one of my best mods was a lighter hammer spring (cut down a stock spring). I made mine into a 10.5" barrel "target" style pistol and get 70+ super consistent shots @ 460 fps with JSB Express 14.3gr (6.7 ft/lb) on a single CO2 cartridge. (I'm in New Zealand so I can go over 6 ft/lb for air pistol.) The stock hammer spring is quite wasteful on gas, and my cut down spring just needs 2 shots to pierce the CO2 cartridge but is otherwise perfect.
I paid £70 exactly for mine about 2014. I then went to Hawaii in 2016. In a Walmart at the airgun section. $27. Yes $27, and they were still making a profit. Both Crosman, and Walmart.
Here in the nordics, they go for around 200 US$… Sadly, most US stuff is just not worth getting here. Unless you want to spend $150 for a red ryder etc.^^
I remember you saying you were going to hang out for that model, I got the standard one and went down the steel breech and silencer adapter route......6ish FPE and super accurate.
I had one 20 years ago and swapped it for an 1890s Yoman officers sword and then sold the sword for £400 on eBay. a lovely little pistol, but never really shot it when i had it
I had one until recently it was modded and reached over 15flbs back in summe on a hot day with a heated co2. I swapped it for a walther lgu and couldnt be happier😊
Very cool video on the 2240. I never owned one but my friend did, and it was very accurate for a cheaper air pistol. I especially like your child-like enthusiasm and sense of humor. Being American, your pronunciation of “France” really cracked me up. Sounds like my mother from Chicago, with the extra long A-sound. “Fraaance”. 🤣 Also, the “Wears the soap?…Yes it does…” thing was hilarious. (Not sure how many Americans would get that, but whatever) We are made fun of for good reason. Really liked your whole presentation and detailed disassembly and subscribed because you left us hanging on all the other improvements on this iconic air pistol. Can’t wait to see your next episode as you have fun with your new toy. Aloha from Hawaii and Seattle. 🤙🏼
@ , Thank you back. Being American and not very proud of that, especially now that the moron in chief has been reinstalled. We’re really screwed here and not many in the States have figured it out yet. But being American, I’ve owned and fired countless rifles and pistols of the powder actuated variety. Something you guys in the UK can’t do since you have sensible gun laws and no school shootings every single day. I’m 61 man, and have really bad arthritic hips. I haven’t gone to the shooting range for a couple years now. Never been a “gun-nut” but nobody was from my era. It’s gotten so extreme and militia oriented, I want no part of this new scene. I just wanted peace and to be the best marksman without losing an eye as a kid with a Daisy BB gun. I’m 61 and still have both eyes of varying degrees of clarity but I’m still a great shot. So I went with airguns just to still hit the bullseye without all the negative connotations of a real gun. It’s a growing sport that grew without me paying attention to pellet guns, but I’m back now. Super fun and actually way more involved mechanically, than firearms. Super fun to tweak and get dialed in, and the accuracy now is astounding. It’s fun and non-lethal. It’s marksmanship and a harmless hobby. Albeit an expensive one if you go nuts with it, but I’m still just trying to hit that bullseye. So you’re obviously doing the same thing in 6 yard tournaments there in bloody old England. Very cool and lots of us are basically doing the same thing here, we just have less restrictions on FPS or FPE. Which is good on your side of the pond and I believe should be the same here, but you know America, there’s no laws that aren’t breakable with no consequences attached. Here’s the cool thing I discovered about air-rifles. Breaking the speed of sound makes no sense for accuracy as the pellet wobbles and curves as that barrier is broken. Let’s add that to the list of reasons why to keep it under control and just have fun. You can be an extreme marksman but not harm another living soul like I am, and still have great fun shooting a rifle or pistol. I’m really getting into this now and a channel like yours is, really more my speed. You’re not all that serious about it, and at the same time, you are. That’s how I am. I’m a mechanic. I take things apart. Put them back together and improve on their performance. If everything was built perfectly and lasted forever, I’d have nothing interesting to do. Sorry for the long-winded reply, I can’t help that I’m full-blooded Irish. Love your channel man. Keep up the great stuff. Really fun to watch.
When I get a seal kit for mine, I'm going to drill a hole in the underside of the CO2 tube, to make removing stuck CO2 bulbs easier. My Zasbar has a slot underneath, pop a screw driver in, and gently push the bulb out, no banging and messing about with magnets to pull the empty bulbs out !!
As they come they are good cheap plinking guns I had one years ago but it is so easy to get sucked in and buy all of the upgrades changing the cheap plastic parts for metal etc when its finished you look at it and think for the amount of money I spent on it why did I just not buy a quality well made gun to start with then if you decide to sell it later you stand a good chance of getting your money back but with the crosman unless you find a mug its money down the drain.
The spring firm a lighter cut down fits fine, and that the thinner version of bathroom chain with the balls in it you get on a keychain works for the bb... 😊
You can also get a side mounted magazine for the 2240, 9 shot iirc. I have one on my 2250xl and it works well. Might be handy when you are recovering from your surgery
I bought mine in Ross on Wye about 13 years ago, but I need a seal kit for it, leaks . Living in Spain, I can't find a seal kit for it, I guess I should go the USA route, order a few kits !!
Yup. Them Americans.. Always getting (or already having) the good stuff... And thus it is always so badass when I see some co2 replica pistol not really getting there everywhere (as the Umarex Glock 17 dual-ammo, which also got out as a threaded barrel version) - or maybe as a limited bunch.. I personally never gotten myself into these Crosman pistols though, as I know I'd be putting cash on extra parts. I do enjoy my Crosman DPMS SBR though..
Never seen that type of box on a 2240 before. The new base models now come in a cardboard box that is styled after their new pellet tins from what I have seen. If you have not heard the Chinese 2240s seem to have valve issues and a fair few comments have come up about them leaking. Either through a damage or incorrectly installed o ring, or due to bad machining or a bad fit of the valve stem to valve fit. Crosman sends a replacement no questions asked. The hammer, cocking slots, etc have also been reported as quite roughly machined from a few other posts. Not sure if that rear slot will fit anything else, but I know it is made for their LPA Mim rear sight. That price seems about right for the 2240 XL, the base model is about half of that. If you like the old c02 pistols as well, check out the Smith & Wesson 78G or 79G (177 and 22 respectively). I wish suppressors were legal here, the 2240 is quite loud without one, really not suitable for backyard or indoor plinking.
Never had one but I do have a custom SMK xs78 make by PorkyYorky. It is bulk fill and a work of art. I must get a 2240xl as they are so cheap (at the beginning :) ) My brother had one and he sunk hundreds of pounds into it.
Fancy reviewing this. Just when I thought I had got the 2240 out of my system. The only one I am left with has an 18 inch barrel and GMAC multi shot breech. Sadly no longer available, hence the reason I kept it. THESE THINGS ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE PISTOLS IN THE WORLD. Good fun though.
It's odd how in the U.S. suppressors (Moderators) you need to register it with the FBI yet they're the freest when it comes to owning guns, but the UK has some of the most strict laws and they've banned lots of guns but suppressors are ok, then here in Canada suppressors are outright banned, male it make sense!
Almost Lugerish. I think thats part of the attraction. Disattraction.. ? CO2. Still want one. Good one Nick Keith I d ike one of those moderators please.
It's nice, but you could have got a 2300T (.177 target) once you had spent all that money on shipping etc. it has a much better trigger also so you won't need to buy the adjustable trigger springs for the 2240 It comes with open sights as well, and a moderator adapter for it is only an extra fiver
Debur the steel breech so you don't maim your right hand(like I did). The Chinese QC is awful. Crosman should move their 2240 manufacturing back to USA. Parts are a hit and miss on fitting. It's now junk.
I've never viewed your channel before, so I settled down this evening, for a highly intellectual, and serious, description of some ballistic engineering. Anyone who describes an object as a, "Rear sight slidey thing," is spot on level with my understanding! I immediately subscribed, thank you, young sir!
Have one....99 euros....and then bought the steel breech-block and a comp and fitted some aftermarket custom grips...a gentleman in Madrid charged me 30 euros and they are gorgeous!!! Have a Benjamin Marauder pistol and removed all the plastic and fitted some walnut grips he made....stunning gun! The 2240 is my ONLY CO2 gun that doesn't loose ANY gas...ever! Trigger needs customising....the Marauder has a beautiful trigger so it can be done! Cool Sir!!!
Crosman made some great pistols. I've had 2240, but got fed up of buying CO2 for it. Went for a 1377 pump pistol and love it. Currently being converted into a PCP as I'm getting too old for the pumping malarkey 🤔
1377 is my second favorite, 1701P is a work of art. 1/4" and smaller sometimes groups out to 20y.
Huge fan of these, so many add ons and bling options. I've one with a side lever ten shot magazine and others with brass or stainless steel tubes and barrel sleeves. eBay a good place to start, but there used it before a couple of great Facebook groups also
Very nice👍 Love what you did to improve the shot cycle.
I put a 2250 barrel on mine along with a longer 2260 main tube. Added a “bulk fill” adapter on the end which allowed me to fill the main tube with CO2 and eliminate the need for CO2 cartridges. Happy shooting!
Good luck with the op Nick & hope you make a speedy recovery.
Great vid Nick, I have a mint, boxed Benjamin EB22. Fantastic little air pistol.
Yep, we've all had Crosman a 2240 & spent ridiculous amounts of money on "binging them up" & losing a small fortune in the process😅
I have several videos 📹 on the 2240XL etc I'm sure you'll enjoy
For me it was a multipump 1377 pistol i spend hundreds converting into a backpacker with a flat top piston loads of brass bits, a williams diopter sight and a brass muzzle with sight pin, 16inch .22 barrel, brilliant little thing it is. Hits like a damn train for something that looks and feels like a toy.
@@geetee7154 Speak for ya self buddy
I modded up my 2240 with parts from the UK, but one of my best mods was a lighter hammer spring (cut down a stock spring). I made mine into a 10.5" barrel "target" style pistol and get 70+ super consistent shots @ 460 fps with JSB Express 14.3gr (6.7 ft/lb) on a single CO2 cartridge. (I'm in New Zealand so I can go over 6 ft/lb for air pistol.) The stock hammer spring is quite wasteful on gas, and my cut down spring just needs 2 shots to pierce the CO2 cartridge but is otherwise perfect.
Great fun video. I was half expecting you to get Bumslide on you spectacles at one point! Off to dig out my old Tempest!
The Webley Tempest is an all-time great! Ok, the Senior was better made, but the Tempest was in my mum’s Gratton catalogue😁
I paid £70 exactly for mine about 2014. I then went to Hawaii in 2016. In a Walmart at the airgun section. $27. Yes $27, and they were still making a profit. Both Crosman, and Walmart.
Here in the nordics, they go for around 200 US$… Sadly, most US stuff is just not worth getting here. Unless you want to spend $150 for a red ryder etc.^^
I remember you saying you were going to hang out for that model, I got the standard one and went down the steel breech and silencer adapter route......6ish FPE and super accurate.
I have several videos 📹 on the 2240XL etc I'm sure you'll enjoy
I had one 20 years ago and swapped it for an 1890s Yoman officers sword and then sold the sword for £400 on eBay. a lovely little pistol, but never really shot it when i had it
I had one until recently it was modded and reached over 15flbs back in summe on a hot day with a heated co2. I swapped it for a walther lgu and couldnt be happier😊
I like the look of that! Might need to have a look for one of them,
I notices the grips have been changed to grip panels used on the PCP pistol version, instead of the old black plastic ones with different contouring.
If it makes you feel any better, lots of American airgunners are jealous of the good stuff you can only get in Europe.😂
Nice One Nick,thank you,
When are you taking your old mate sitting on the shelf back to UK ? ❤
I have several videos 📹 on the Crosman 2240XL I'm sure you all will enjoy.
Bought one about two months ago for £99 new . Did the usual mods plus i got shoulder stock grips which makes it very accurate with RWS Hobbies .
That’ll be a standard 2240. I have one of those due in the next few days for a comparison video👍
Very cool video on the 2240. I never owned one but my friend did, and it was very accurate for a cheaper air pistol. I especially like your child-like enthusiasm and sense of humor. Being American, your pronunciation of “France” really cracked me up. Sounds like my mother from Chicago, with the extra long A-sound. “Fraaance”. 🤣 Also, the “Wears the soap?…Yes it does…” thing was hilarious.
(Not sure how many Americans would get that, but whatever) We are made fun of for good reason.
Really liked your whole presentation and detailed disassembly and subscribed because you left us hanging on all the other improvements on this iconic air pistol. Can’t wait to see your next episode as you have fun with your new toy.
Aloha from Hawaii and Seattle. 🤙🏼
Thankyou😂
@ , Thank you back. Being American and not very proud of that, especially now that the moron in chief has been reinstalled. We’re really screwed here and not many in the States have figured it out yet. But being American, I’ve owned and fired countless rifles and pistols of the powder actuated variety. Something you guys in the UK can’t do since you have sensible gun laws and no school shootings every single day. I’m 61 man, and have really bad arthritic hips. I haven’t gone to the shooting range for a couple years now.
Never been a “gun-nut” but nobody was from my era. It’s gotten so extreme and militia oriented, I want no part of this new scene. I just wanted peace and to be the best marksman without losing an eye as a kid with a Daisy BB gun. I’m 61 and still have both eyes of varying degrees of clarity but I’m still a great shot. So I went with airguns just to still hit the bullseye without all the negative connotations of a real gun. It’s a growing sport that grew without me paying attention to pellet guns, but I’m back now. Super fun and actually way more involved mechanically, than firearms. Super fun to tweak and get dialed in, and the accuracy now is astounding. It’s fun and non-lethal. It’s marksmanship and a harmless hobby. Albeit an expensive one if you go nuts with it, but I’m still just trying to hit that bullseye.
So you’re obviously doing the same thing in 6 yard tournaments there in bloody old England. Very cool and lots of us are basically doing the same thing here, we just have less restrictions on FPS or FPE. Which is good on your side of the pond and I believe should be the same here, but you know America, there’s no laws that aren’t breakable with no consequences attached.
Here’s the cool thing I discovered about air-rifles. Breaking the speed of sound makes no sense for accuracy as the pellet wobbles and curves as that barrier is broken. Let’s add that to the list of reasons why to keep it under control and just have fun. You can be an extreme marksman but not harm another living soul like I am, and still have great fun shooting a rifle or pistol. I’m really getting into this now and a channel like yours is, really more my speed. You’re not all that serious about it, and at the same time, you are. That’s how I am. I’m a mechanic. I take things apart. Put them back together and improve on their performance. If everything was built perfectly and lasted forever, I’d have nothing interesting to do.
Sorry for the long-winded reply, I can’t help that I’m full-blooded Irish. Love your channel man. Keep up the great stuff. Really fun to watch.
When I get a seal kit for mine, I'm going to drill a hole in the underside of the CO2 tube, to make removing stuck CO2 bulbs easier.
My Zasbar has a slot underneath, pop a screw driver in, and gently push the bulb out, no banging and messing about with magnets to pull the empty bulbs out !!
Zasbar? Never heard of those? Pics/link please😁
As they come they are good cheap plinking guns I had one years ago but it is so easy to get sucked in and buy all of the upgrades changing the cheap plastic parts for metal etc when its finished you look at it and think for the amount of money I spent on it why did I just not buy a quality well made gun to start with then if you decide to sell it later you stand a good chance of getting your money back but with the crosman unless you find a mug its money down the drain.
SD Customs was good for Crosman parts. Sadly they stopped selling their parts years ago.
The spring firm a lighter cut down fits fine, and that the thinner version of bathroom chain with the balls in it you get on a keychain works for the bb... 😊
You can also get a side mounted magazine for the 2240, 9 shot iirc.
I have one on my 2250xl and it works well.
Might be handy when you are recovering from your surgery
I almost pissed my f-ing pants with the crack on the Scotch
That was fun I haven’t had trouble getting bits in England.So glad you explained that bit of ugly can go it’s as good as gone.
Only if you have the steel breech!
@@tbtairrifletuning1520bought in Blighty no worries. First job done when I got it.
I have a 2240 it cost me about £100 pounds (rat buster) I put a sllincer from the crossman rat catcher it fits perfectly
Oh dear, you paid a bit for that pistol. But I sure am looking forward to see what you do with it!
I bought mine in Ross on Wye about 13 years ago, but I need a seal kit for it, leaks . Living in Spain, I can't find a seal kit for it, I guess I should go the USA route, order a few kits !!
Yup. Them Americans.. Always getting (or already having) the good stuff... And thus it is always so badass when I see some co2 replica pistol not really getting there everywhere (as the Umarex Glock 17 dual-ammo, which also got out as a threaded barrel version) - or maybe as a limited bunch..
I personally never gotten myself into these Crosman pistols though, as I know I'd be putting cash on extra parts. I do enjoy my Crosman DPMS SBR though..
Are these available in the UK now?
No. Start a parliamentary petition!
Never seen that type of box on a 2240 before. The new base models now come in a cardboard box that is styled after their new pellet tins from what I have seen. If you have not heard the Chinese 2240s seem to have valve issues and a fair few comments have come up about them leaking. Either through a damage or incorrectly installed o ring, or due to bad machining or a bad fit of the valve stem to valve fit. Crosman sends a replacement no questions asked. The hammer, cocking slots, etc have also been reported as quite roughly machined from a few other posts.
Not sure if that rear slot will fit anything else, but I know it is made for their LPA Mim rear sight.
That price seems about right for the 2240 XL, the base model is about half of that. If you like the old c02 pistols as well, check out the Smith & Wesson 78G or 79G (177 and 22 respectively).
I wish suppressors were legal here, the 2240 is quite loud without one, really not suitable for backyard or indoor plinking.
Is Lothar barrel part of the XL kit?
I don’t think so?
Try an Artemis CP2. 2 barrels and stock extension to make from pistol to rifle
love the comments about America that is how we sound lol
Never had one but I do have a custom SMK xs78 make by PorkyYorky. It is bulk fill and a work of art. I must get a 2240xl as they are so cheap (at the beginning :) ) My brother had one and he sunk hundreds of pounds into it.
Fancy reviewing this. Just when I thought I had got the 2240 out of my system. The only one I am left with has an 18 inch barrel and GMAC multi shot breech. Sadly no longer available, hence the reason I kept it. THESE THINGS ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE PISTOLS IN THE WORLD. Good fun though.
Mine in a few months,co2 cyl seal fail ,,crosman airguns no quality at all
Good video thanks
Nice vid matey xden
looks good ..... thought you were in Spain !!
Hi Craig. Not until next month👍
I think my Zasbar is actually better than the Crosman, longer barrel, nice adjustable trigger.
It's odd how in the U.S. suppressors (Moderators) you need to register it with the FBI yet they're the freest when it comes to owning guns, but the UK has some of the most strict laws and they've banned lots of guns but suppressors are ok, then here in Canada suppressors are outright banned, male it make sense!
Almost Lugerish. I think thats part of the attraction. Disattraction.. ? CO2. Still want one. Good one Nick Keith I d ike one of those moderators please.
price was: .Canadian$169.999
How the hell did that get through customs ?
It's nice, but you could have got a 2300T (.177 target) once you had spent all that money on shipping etc. it has a much better trigger also so you won't need to buy the adjustable trigger springs for the 2240
It comes with open sights as well, and a moderator adapter for it is only an extra fiver
I could, but it was $85 more and has the short breech. What I really wanted was the 2300s, but they are $320~350 before shipping and import taxes!
whilst this isnt the same gun.... i bought the wife a 2250xl (longer barrel,quite a surprise on a warm day.....)but it cost £190 4 years ago.
This gun is very similar to the legendary Chinese rifle. QB-78. Just a copy, it fired using carbon dioxide in canisters.☝️
If the moderators come in black i'd buy at least 2 of them.
Thanks
Debur the steel breech so you don't maim your right hand(like I did). The Chinese QC is awful. Crosman should move their 2240 manufacturing back to USA. Parts are a hit and miss on fitting. It's now junk.
Liking your channel ❤ have 3 Crosmans love them just ordered a SMK Victory cp2 look great for the money check them out Respect from UK
Welcome to try my 2240 buddy, there’s very little original left from the base gun.
bonus stripdown video
I think this new model is manufactured in CHINA.
First Comment Win
😂
Sak £45 new by me
Hey! What’s this strange accent nonsense about?
Too much waffle!
I can’t argue with that!👍
Waste of money
But cheaper than the basic 2240 plus the extras👍