Comments on: To Hell With the NFA: The Full Auto Crosman M1 Carbine Air Gun https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/ Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Tec's Dad https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-55865 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:25:26 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-55865 I bought one and it is a proven squirell deterent. We were feeding the spring song birds and inevitably the fluffy rats with bush tails showed up to try and eat everthing we put out. A couple of quick bursts and they tended to change their eating habits. The BBs at the velocity do not kill but they must bruise and scare the heck out of them. The carbine should obviously be put on paper firts with single shot and theh bursts. Will be surprised at its accuracy with a smooth bore.

]]> By: tsbhoa.p.jr https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54721 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:18:28 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54721 In reply to TDS.

or one thousand pumps with the fancy takes forever. you can run a scuba tank adapter that fits the cartridge, need dive shop, maybe welding supply to fill tank.
the .30 caliber and up stuff going well over 1000fps is amazing.

]]> By: tsbhoa.p.jr https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54717 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:06:53 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54717 can recommend the drozd (bumblebee) as solidly built. there’s a few on eeebey- their getting kind of spendy though. you can set them for semi, 3 rd burst and full. and the latter two have variable burst rates. striking fear into the hearts of chipgophers everywhere.
pyramid (and others) list half a dozen full auto pistols, i’d prolly go for the broomhandle mauser. way cheeper than the russian thing.

]]> By: tsbhoa.p.jr https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54711 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:45:18 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54711 “We don’t typically talk a whole lot about airguns at Shooting News Weekly…”
and that, quite simply, is a damn shame.
it ain’t called powder burning news weekly.
i have yet to run out of large pellet primers.

]]> By: Chris T in KY https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54671 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:32:26 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54671 I’ve been trying to decide which select fire BB gun to get now for years. There are so many. Long guns and hand guns. Thanks for the review.

]]> By: Harry Schell https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54520 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:32:53 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54520 Gosh, I’ve always wanted a carbine. The idea of getting close appeals, and CO2/BB’s are rather less than real ammo.

Full auto? In the backyard?? $120??? Yee haw. I gots to go see one…

]]> By: Andrew Cunningham https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54513 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:46:02 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54513 I had a full auto M1 “Annihilator” back in the 70s. It was powered by a can of freon rather than CO2. BBs didn’t come out very fast. Less than 400 fps if I had to guess. I had a CO2 pistol which was good for 450 fps and it struck harder than the auto. 400 fps is rather slow for an air gun. It would need at least 3 times that velocity to be reliable and competing with BBs rather than pellets is partly luck. Full auto BB guns can be fun but you need to manage expectations.

]]> By: Mike Strowbridge https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54510 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:23:15 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54510 My wife gave me a Crosman M1 last Christmas. I made her drive me to Walmart in September when I saw they had one and bought it and asked her to give it to me for Christmas. We have been together for over 40 years, and it is by far the best gift she ever got me. I love the sights. Its accurate and delivers hit after hit on a given target. While the full auto feature is the draw, I can testify that it is a great semi-auto BB Gun.

I probably should have shot the thing in September because it had a defect. One that I did not notice for a few weeks. The CO2 cap does not pierce the second cartridge, so it ends up using only one at a time. I get about half the shots that you get and that works out pretty well for me as I was complaining initially that it needed two cartridges to work. With just one cartridge, the full auto works flawlessly, and I get about 90 rounds out of it. After the first cartridge is depleted, I flip them around and shoot through the other one. It turns out that is a hack to save on CO2 for this gun.

Shooting The Crosman M1 in full auto makes you smile every time and holding this carbine in your hands feels so familiar. I was so pleased to see this article on Instapundit. Thank you so much.

]]> By: TDS https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54491 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:17:49 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54491 Pcps are crazy good now but you have to buy the special air compressor. You can hunt with them. And buy suppressors.

]]> By: hawkeye https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/air-guns/to-hell-with-the-nfa-the-full-auto-crosman-m1-carbine-air-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-54468 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:47:52 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=26119#comment-54468 I’m glad that you discovered the fun in having one of these. I have the DPMS version, super fun to shoot. Unless the laws change meaningfully, it’s the closest thing to a select fire SBR that I’ll ever own.

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