What do you feed your airgun?Found in a Crosman 1377

by Tom Gaylord

This report came from a reader, Darry Hartsock, who referred me to the man who actually wrote the report, did the work and took the picture.

Mark Orn is the Manager and Buyer of the Hunting and Fishing Department at Canfield's Sporting Good in Omaha, Nebraska. This is his story.

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This picture shows you can try to use a Swiss Army knife to clear the barrel of a Crosman pistol.

A customer purchased this pistol from us over a year ago. Brought it back saying that it wasn’t shooting and wanted another one. I asked if it was loaded he said he didn’t know.

I took the gun back to our pellet trap and tried to put a cleaning rod down the barrel. It only went down about two inches before stopping. Having pushed multiple pellets (16 in .22 caliber is my record) from airguns before, I told the customer that there was a pellet stuck half way down the barrel and that I could push it out for him. That was when he told me that he had let his 6-year-old cousin play with the gun while he and his friends cleaned other guns.

I told him how irresponsible it was to let kids “play with guns” and that airguns are guns. Every year people are hurt or killed by “just a BB gun”.

After 25 years selling them I have seen nails, coat hangers and wood dowels, but this was a first. I found a toothpick, ink pen, tweezers and 5 .177 pellets.


A lot of Swiss Army Knife went in after those five stuck pellets.

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Thanks for that report, Mark. You top anything I've ever seen in a barrel, though I have found several finishing nails and about five pellets dropped down the transfer port of a Hakim air rifle.