Crosman 362 Any fans?

mikeystew said:
Here is the the difference, stock 362 on the bottom, the bolt that came with the steel breech is on the top, and it's the same as the 1322.

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I did some tests. Dispite being longer, I did not see a improvement. But actually a decrease in power. I even put a new o ring.

The stock steel breach probe ( stubby) shot a few fps faster.
 
Pretty sure I hate this 362. It has been nothing but frustrating. Super inconsistent accuracy, the plastic barrel band stripped so easily it's not even funny, had to thread a bigger one. I can hear air hissing for a good 5 seconds after each pump, not sure if it's hissing into the valve or past the piston.
Decided to strip it down completely today, cleaned everything up, re-crowned the muzzle, put the steel breech on and mounted the scope again just to see if I could get a half decent grouping with the scope since the iron sights groupings have been ok sometimes, most of the time not.
Tightened everything up, shot about 10 groups with 5 different pellets. Everything grouped poorly, averaging about 1" at 10m. Totally unacceptable through a scope. Put the plastic breech back on, just as bad with irons again.
Tried pushing a pellet down the barrel to see if I could detect anything off.. barrel hardly grabs the pellet at all, nearly falls right through.

It's a piece of crap. Sorry crosman fans. I'm a Crosman fan as well but the 362 I got is a lemon and there is nothing I can do about it now. I've had it apart too many times to send it back. Wishing I had of spent a bit more on the seneca dragonfly or even a diana chaser rifle kit.

Buyer beware. If you care about consistent accuracy, this may not be the gun for you. My 1322 is 10x the gun this will ever be.
And what's more annoying is I'm stuck with it. I hate wasting money.
 
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Did you get anything in the valve or nick the piston seal when you had it apart? Airguns you need to be careful when taking it apart not to nick the seals.

Pellets are not all equal some have undersized heads so they're looser down the barrel. If you are not an airgun person some stuff can seem like its crap.

But if you got a leak you'll have poor accuracy.
 
OkayShooter said:
Did you get anything in the valve or nick the piston seal when you had it apart? Airguns you need to be careful when taking it apart not to nick the seals.

Pellets are not all equal some have undersized heads so they're looser down the barrel. If you are not an airgun person some stuff can seem like its crap.

But if you got a leak you'll have poor accuracy.
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The valve holds air fine, I can put a single pump in and it holds for days. I think a bit of compressed air gets trapped between the piston and valve and then leaks out past the piston or the outer o-ring on the valve. It's been doing this hissing thing since before i took it apart, I only noticed it last week. Very noticeable past 3 or 4 pumps, it'll hiss for 3-5 sec and then stops. It's one of the reasons I took it completely apart today, to see if the o-rings and seals were OK.
I've even made a spacer out of fiberglass and JB weld to go between the barrel and tube and lashed it down with electrical tape to stabilize the barrel.. still shoots a 1" pattern at 10m on a good day, and a little worse without the spacer.

I really only wanted this gun because it has enough power to hunt with it if necessary, but its not accurate enough for small game past 5-10 yards. My 1322 can hunt just fine within those distances and shoots ragged one hole groups at 10m.

I'll admit, I'm not an airgun aficionado, but I've owned numerous 13XX guns over the years, airsoft, break barrels and Co2 pistols. I know enough to know a decent airgun should group accurately within reason. This thing is just hobbled together cheap parts and a lot of plastic, and it shows. My 1911 blowback airsoft pistol is more accurate at 10m. Not even joking.
 
johNTO said:
mikeystew.....that sucks.
You probably saved me some aggravation and money. I'm going to stick with my 1322.....
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I'm absolutely putting this thing in the closet to forget about and going back to the 1322 myself. I like it so much, it's why I figured this one would likely be decent too. Was hoping for a 1322 on steroids kinda thing.. But it's a FAR cry from the 2400 or 1322. Those guns can shoot. And accuracy is the name of the game. How does the saying go.. only accurate guns are interesting...
 
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So a quick update, I spent a couple more hrs farting around with it this morning. Sucker for punishment.
I reinstalled the barrel spacer, which is just a crude JB weld blob job with a piece of fiberglass mesh embedded in it. Wrapped it in a few tight wraps of electrical tape to act as a support band, and then completely removed the front barrel band grub screw so the barrel floats through it. Now the barrel gets all its support from my JB weld spacer.

It is absolutely drilling 200ml mini-pop cans at 30m consistently with every shot now, using anything from 5-8 pumps and the premier hollow points. And its grouping consistently under half inch at 10m with all the pellets I have. It also raised the POI by around 2" at 10m. This is with the peep sight and plastic breech even.

I think the front band screw was to blame for the poor accuracy. Because even with the spacer in before it shot like crap with that band screw In place.

Very strange. But I'm going to stop messing with it now.

Here is the ugly spacer. I'll probably refine it a bit and file off some of the blob contours. I might not. It's a cheap gun, I don't care what it looks like really.

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I've put another 500 rds or so through this thing over the last week and can confidently say, I love this gun with the modifications. Bloody accurate, and can't seem to miss with it. Absolutely worth doing the dodgy looking support with JB weld and ditching that band screw. It's so consistently accurate now its almost unreal, 1 inch groups at 30m with the crappy plastic sights all day long.
 
Well the plastic beech offers no barrel support and then you add a long barrel it becomes a diving board, or droops. Something you don't see with the shorter 13xx. Steel breech does improve the rigidity.

Honestly they should did a band like the 2289G.

I'm sure someone 3D prints a barrel spacer. As the factory 2260 ones are hard to find now.
 
They're coming out with a limited edition 362 with wood stock, metal breech with brass bolt and trigger. Saw it posted by wingman on YouTube yesterday. Curious what the price will be.. looks fantastic.
 
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