Crossman 66 Powermaster

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Among my Dad’s Stuff when he passed there was a Box for a Crossman 66 Powermaster.

thinking “eh, not a Daisy” I tossed it into a closet pretty much in looked at.

Today cleaning out that closet I un boxed the 66. It is adult sized. Plastic Faux brown wood with some pressed in checkering with black forearm tip and buttplate with white line.

So I googled to find an Operator manual and found there were several different models by years.

only problem every manual shows a 66 Powermaster as having a clip to feed pellets in addition to its BB feed.

not only does Dad’s gun have no clip, it has no place to insert one.

now in small letters on the back side it says “MODEL 66-A” and has images of a Diablo pellet and a BB.

Google fails me when I change 66 to 66-A.

the out side if the box claims “Easy-pump power - to 720 FPS” while the manuals list the highest velocity as 680 FPS with a steel BB.

what the heck over?

sorry about lighting, best I can do at the moment
4979CCDC-76E8-4374-840E-775D3F87279D.jpeg Of course it had to be upside down!

-kBob
 
I have one of the same vintage that I scored at a pawn shop for $20. Perfect condition and a real tack driver as far as plastic lower tier bb rifles go.

I believe the manual was made to be generally used for either a 66 or a model 760 which I used to have several of as a teenager. The pellet clips in the 760 feed right into the receiver in a square cut on the top/middle. The 66 has a different cut and the clips can’t work.

Basically they cheaped out and only printed one manual between two functionally similar guns.

I haven’t chrono’d the 66 but it’s more powerful than a 760 Pumpmaster by a significant amount. I would guess 720 fps is about right
 
Thanks,

Well I now have an excuse to breakout the chronograph. I plan to try to get it to shoot either BBs or pellets (can't expect both) to POA and play with the number of pumps and the effects of time after pumping to shot.

-kBob
 
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