Originally Posted by
Josie & John
Just imagine two shooters in the field. One armed with a Crosman and the other with a BSA. Quarry is sighted and the BSA shooter quietly cocks and loads his piece. Meanwhile the Crosman shooter says "Wait, I need to charge my rifle". Frantic movement follows as the Crosman goes clack, clack, clack, then a pellet is fumbled into the piece. The BSA shooter could have got a couple of shots off in the time the Crosman is prepared but sportingly waits for his pal to prepare. The noise and time elapsed results in the quarry disappearing from view and both shooters carry on empty handed...
The BSA was not just a hunting arm and was
the air rifle to use for target shooting as bell and match shooters will attest to. A single cocking stroke for target shooting is also to be prefered in this discipline too as a 30 shot course of fire requires the piece to be cocked 30 times. Whereas a multi pump has to be cocked many times that, resulting in shooter fatigue, especially towards the end of that course, when the rifle has already been cocked, perhaps over 100 times.
John
However, in real life, the Crosman owner would have pumped his rifle long before any quarry was sighted, and with the greater power of the pump up would have been able to shoot it at a longer range. Always assuming the Crosman was indeed as powerful as they were supposed to be (never shot a Crosman of this vintage so I don't know).
The rifles were different animals with different perceived purposes, saying "mines better than yours" is comparing apples with oranges.
But it never hurts to rib the Yanks a bit.
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.