Crosman 600

[Grizzlypeg]

Just got this vintage C02 pistol and thought I'd share a picture. It's a 22 calibre semi-automatic pellet pistol. Fires 10-11 shots as fast as you can pull the trigger in true semi-auto fashion. A marvel of 1950's engineering. Nice crisp light trigger and very accurate. All metal, aside from the grips. I doubt they make them like this anymore, at least not under a grand.

 

[IanC]

Thanks for posting, Its always great to see one in such good condition being appreciated.
Ive had a few but never seem to be able to hold onto one very long they are very easy to sell.
IanC

PS as blackacres mentioned find wadcutter pellets. The ones i used are the crosman bulk pack ones which used to be called copperheads which came in a blister pack. Also the tins of crosman flats work the best too. and they are also the cheapest.

 

[blackacres]

I owned a 600 for a number of years (plus a number of vintage air rifles/pistols) which I recently sold, as I'm shooting more powder burning pistols now!

The 600 was only made for two years, 1969 - 70 if I recall. Crosman spent a lot of time building the 600 as they are quite complex, and probably more time repairing them under warranty, as they are "finiky", causing to Crosman stop production!

The pistol holds 10 .22 pellets and as the OP mentioned it shoots in true semi automatic mode, not like most of todays repeating pistols, which are basically SA/DA revolvers within a semi auto pistol look a like enclosure.

The 600 will not operate well, or at all using domed Diabolo pellets (which I think are in the tin shown in the photo), the domed heads will interlock and this will cause the loading gate to jam up. Flat head target pellets will feed much better. Crosman produced some horrible .22 flat nosed pellets when this gun was made and they created a lot of the FTF issues customers complained about. I fed mine with RWS Meisterkugeln .22 flat nose pellets, but other flat nosed will feed well.

As the semi auto mechanism is operated using the C02 powerlet, the 600's just devour C02 gas, I would get 25 - 30 rounds maximum per powerlet.

Great little C02 pistol, fairly accurate, you'll have a blast shooting it, thanks for sharing.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

It seems to like these Crosman hollow points. Here is a 10 shot group at 10 meters. I aimed at 6 oclock on the target so they are probably low for that reason.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

I tried the other pellets, and I'm not sure what went wrong. There's a tight group of 5 and then 5 off to the right. I'm not sure in what order it all occured as I stayed back and fired all 10 before looking at the target.

 

[leonardj]

The 600 was only made for two years, 1969 - 70 if I recall. Crosman spent a lot of time building the 600 as they are quite complex, and probably more time repairing them under warranty, as they are "finiky", causing to Crosman stop production!

I think you may be confusing the 600 with the 451.

The Crosman 600 was produced from 1960 to 1970, and based upon the Crosman service bulletins that I have here, presented no particular problem for Crosman.

The 451 on the other hand, was only built for less than a year, from late 1969 to early 1970. It was the gun that created some headaches for Crosman, particularly with the hammers breaking. It was the 451 that was discontinued due to all it's problems. It is also the 451 that was known as being the "world's most complex CO2 pistol" back then.

Three full magazines per powerlet is pretty much the standard rule with these guns, so, yes - they do like to expend your CO2.

Of the many 600s that I have worked on, I found that the RWS Meisters tended to cause jamming problems in many guns, whereas, the H&N match were found to function flawlessly with every single 600 I tried them in.
I know that some folks have had some luck with feeding domed pellets, just as grizzlypeg has, but I have found that they also tend to produce some of the nastiest jams.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

I tried JSB Jumbo Heavy's, another domed pellet and they wouldn't feed at all. I think they lock onto each other in a column and won't move laterally into the feed arm. I'm a long way off from the 3/4" at 25 feet they claim, but then again I'm holding the gun.

When I get my dueling tree built, this gun is going to be a riot.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

Not much selection of pellets here in the City. I'll have to go back to Wholesale Sports and see if they have some wadcutters. Canadian Tire and Walmart didn't. I see Cabellas carries Gamo Wadcutters, but I've never heard anyone rave about them. Anyone know if Gamo pellets are any good?

 

[Grizzlypeg]

It's feeding the Crosman hollow point domes like a champ. Got the sights adjusted to where I like them. Just need to improve my zen. The weird part is that I "thought" I was concentrating on the left right sight picture, even light on both sides of the front post, better than ever, and it appears the only thing I was doing right was the elevation.

 

[rugerjack]

600

My 2 600's don't really like anything but H&N sport but will take the daisy match if nothing else is available but you have to keep your finger on the loading port so they don't kick out and jam. D&L supplies my 600 habit with the H&N pellets ,Gamo match are accurate, RWS not so good but once again finger on the loading port for both Crosman just don't work for mine period terrible. You have to get the flip up targets that reset then start buying CO2 bulk lots of fun.
jack

 

[super7]

My 600 is very reliable with the crosman premiers as well. I've tried the cheap daisy pellets from walmart but they seem to be a bit too soft to work well.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

I'm still enjoying it. Ripping off 10 fast rounds at some steel targets in the garage is a blast, and 33 shots cost you about a buck for C02 and pellets. Good cheap fun. I found Daisy wadcutters that cost 1 cent a piece and they shoot fine for ringing steel flip ups.