Crossman Ratcatcher

[Navaja]

*This is a review for the standard model*

The Ratcatcher is undoubtedly one of the best low cost rifles on the market. It comes included with a decent 4x15 scope including mounts, and lense caps, which I found easily ajustable, and very well suited to the rifle. It is avalible only in 22., and is designed predominatly for small vermin control, Rabbit's etc. Out the box the rifle is very lightweight, and easy to handle. The safety is excellently placed, which is important given the rifle shoots at around 11.5ft. As for construction the gun itself is composed of metal with a tough matte black finish, with the stock, grip, and foregrip made from thick textured impact resistance plastic, with the stock skeletonized.

Handling: Even before barrel is settled the gun is very accurate, I tend to shoot at around 25 yards in the garden, and more like 30 at the local range using RWS domeheaded pellets, I'm not sure how it would fair at longer distences, but from other reviews I've read things sound positive. The bolt action is easy to use, and well lubed out the box, however it does occasionally need a couple of pushes to get the pellet in.

Well, I hope you found this helpfull, any qustions welcome.

[humperdingle]

I thought it was 8-10 ft lbs?

[Navaja]

I thought it was 8-10 ft lbs? Nope, it was making 11.5ft consistenly on a C.G reading, I'm pretty sure the box said 12ft, I'll try and find it.

[bedlam]

straight from the box at 11.5!!!!!!!

[Lazurus]

if they 11.5 out of the box I will have to get one. How about a chrony string to show?;)

Stuart

[bullcelt]

was the weather not RED HOT this day.;)

[springboy]

The most i've out of mine is about 8 ft1b at a push with crosman accupels

[mattinlondon]

Well unless they have improved them one hell of alot in 2 years I had a real dud!!

I reckon you may get 11.5 out of them if you pop the CO2 bottle in the oven for 10 minutes at gas mark 4

:D

[The Ratcatcher]

*This is a review for the standard model*

The Ratcatcher is undoubtedly one of the best low cost rifles on the market. It comes included with a decent 4x15 scope including mounts, and lense caps, which I found easily ajustable, and very well suited to the rifle. It is avalible only in 22., and is designed predominatly for small vermin control, Rabbit's etc. Out the box the rifle is very lightweight, and easy to handle. The safety is excellently placed, which is important given the rifle shoots at around 11.5ft. As for construction the gun itself is composed of metal with a tough matte black finish, with the stock, grip, and foregrip made from thick textured impact resistance plastic, with the stock skeletonized.

Handling: Even before barrel is settled the gun is very accurate, I tend to shoot at around 25 yards in the garden, and more like 30 at the local range using RWS domeheaded pellets, I'm not sure how it would fair at longer distences, but from other reviews I've read things sound positive. The bolt action is easy to use, and well lubed out the box, however it does occasionally need a couple of pushes to get the pellet in.

Well, I hope you found this helpfull, any qustions welcome.
Absoultely no chance it is pushing that power out. A Standard one will be doing short of 8ft lbs and a king ratcatcher around 9ft lbs. Chrono it and put the figures on here if you can.

[psycho]

i have a fully customised one with a crooked barn 12g air system
longer pin a 20" recrowned barrel delron springs rj machine breech different seals, barral shroud, trigger conversion
cost over £200 for custom parts alone to put out 11.3 lb did you put the correct grain value into the crono
its an ongoing project all i need now is a paul wilson stock (lives in the next village) a bit of blueing and crome-ing and it will be finished

[slips]

Well unless they have improved them one hell of alot in 2 years I had a real dud!!

I reckon you may get 11.5 out of them if you pop the CO2 bottle in the oven for 10 minutes at gas mark 4

:D

pmsl :D :D :D :D :D :D

[slips]

New chrono needed, methinks....:D :D :D :D :D :D

[<Hamish-Mac>]

iv gotta agree wiv springboy, they just arent 11 ft lbs :D

[Andy Goloskof]

iv gotta agree wiv springboy, they just arent 11 ft lbs :D

Yup! Spent a lot of time and money on two of ours, and then some more and struggling to exceed 11.2 on a warm day. Youngest nephew can still take out pigeons at silly distances...

[Navaja]

New chrono needed, methinks....:D :D :D :D :D :D Never had mine checked!, most I've heard of came out at around 11.5ft, I'm starting to feel like theres some kind of conspiracy behind these rifles!.

[mavericks]

I shot a rabbit that my friend had already shot. He missed the head and the rabbit was still allive. I shot it in the side went right through to the heart at 35yds. So even the 8.5lb that it was running at can kill a rabbit at 35yds. Iknow for a fact that the ratcacther without serious mods just wont do 11.5lb.

[niko]

I shot a rabbit that my friend had already shot. He missed the head and the rabbit was still allive. I shot it in the side went right through to the heart at 35yds. So even the 8.5lb that it was running at can kill a rabbit at 35yds. Iknow for a fact that the ratcacther without serious mods just wont do 11.5lb.

please dont tell me your taking engine room shots with an air rifle

[Darren Petts]

*This is a review for the standard model*

The Ratcatcher is undoubtedly one of the best low cost rifles on the market. It comes included with a decent 4x15 scope including mounts, and lense caps, which I found easily ajustable, and very well suited to the rifle. It is avalible only in 22., and is designed predominatly for small vermin control, Rabbit's etc. Out the box the rifle is very lightweight, and easy to handle. The safety is excellently placed, which is important given the rifle shoots at around 11.5ft. As for construction the gun itself is composed of metal with a tough matte black finish, with the stock, grip, and foregrip made from thick textured impact resistance plastic, with the stock skeletonized.

Handling: Even before barrel is settled the gun is very accurate, I tend to shoot at around 25 yards in the garden, and more like 30 at the local range using RWS domeheaded pellets, I'm not sure how it would fair at longer distences, but from other reviews I've read things sound positive. The bolt action is easy to use, and well lubed out the box, however it does occasionally need a couple of pushes to get the pellet in.

Well, I hope you found this helpfull, any qustions welcome.

You are having a laugh aren't you.?

"a decent 4x15 scope including mounts" - you are either registered blind or ought to be. The plastic disposable scope is of almost no use whatsoever. It's optically a Christmas cracker reject with plastic lenses and comes complete with flexible mounts that attach to pro-blox that simply fail to actually grab the barrel.

"11.5 ft/lb" - :D - try 8

"the gun itself is composed of metal with a tough matte black finish" - should read "the gun itself is composed of cheese that won't hold a thread beyond the one use the manufacturer subjects it to on assembly with a finish that couldn't be cheaper"

"however it does occasionally need a couple of pushes to get the pellet in." - translates as "there is a pitifully small cheese like bolt that holds the plastic breech to the monkey metal receiver that is directly in the way of loading a pellet, consequently the pellet catches on this when you attempt to return the bolt. Dripping some hard wax over this bolt head will improve this action no end"

Ratties are cheap and cheerful guns that are so riddled with manufacturing compromises that you can improve them no end with some time and money. They make good projects for this reason. They cost around £45 in the USA which is their true worth.

[The Ratcatcher]

I shot a rabbit that my friend had already shot. He missed the head and the rabbit was still allive. I shot it in the side went right through to the heart at 35yds. So even the 8.5lb that it was running at can kill a rabbit at 35yds. Iknow for a fact that the ratcacther without serious mods just wont do 11.5lb.
To be honest your friend shouldn`t be shooting live quarry if he missed the head and especially with such an underpowered gun at that distance, its just not fair on the bunnies.

[humperdingle]

Anyway... are they not called "RATCATCHER" and not "RABBITCATCHER" for a reason? i.e. not powerful enough for the humane dispatch of anything larger than a dirty, stinkin' rat?