Crosman AR Upper
Turn your AR lower into an air rifle
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| From Gun Porn |
Crosman® Corporation, long known for innovation and quality in products for the shooting sports, has introduced a new pre-charged pneumatic (PCP), modular, adaptive, competition sporting air rifle (MSR), the MAR177™.
According to Crosman Product Manager, Terry Neumaster, “The Crosman MAR177 PCP Rifle is designed to support match air rifle competitors, using the traditional service rifle of National Match series competitions. To better serve the requirements of elite competitors, we’ve partnered with two-time, National NRA High Power Rifle Champion, Dennis DeMille of Creedmoor Sports Inc.,” he said.
At $900, it’s a bit steep. That would buy a lot of ammo.
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:39 pm
And it’s still legally a firearm.
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Well, at least then it would make sense for NJ to regulate the result as a “firearm”… No, wait, not really.
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:06 pm
$900 really doesn’t buy that much match-grade ammo. OTOH, you can buy a tin of 500 match-grade pellets for about $12.
And shoot them indoors.
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:48 pm
How does this compare price-wise to a good quality 22LR adapter?
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Did you guys see the Crosman/Benjamin Rogue? .357 caliber PCP Rifle that produces the same energy as a .38 Special revolver? Crosman hit it out of the park this year!
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Maybe someone should build an upper that actually converts an ar-15 lower to an airsoft rifle. That way the batfae will actually have an airsoft rifle that really is a rifle…
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:44 pm
@Matt: Dang – just under 3/8″. NJ law classifies airguns throwing a projectile of less than 3/8″ and capable of causing harm as a firearm. If only I could get ahold of a .40 airgun…
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:10 pm
A 3/4″ group at 10 meters? For well less than $900 one can obtain a (now-disqualified) NCAA pumper with half that group size, and not have to run a tab at the dive shop. Considerable Rambo factor in play here.
Look, I understand why air is the future of Europe and all shooting games Europeans compete in. And of course, high schools will never have lead-spewing smallbore teams ever again. Our Moms have spoken, firmly if whinily.
But now is when America looks to its grownups to save a heritage of gunpowder and recoil. You want to shoot air, fine, shoot air: it’s a lovely and noble sport; turn right to the new building at the east end of Camp Perry. That odd sensation you’ll note on the rest of the line is the wind blowing, down from Point Pelee, up the LaCarpe Valley, usually both at once. That’s where you practice service rifle, out in the wind with the lead flying and the smoke blowing.
How about a nice AR15 Wii app? Would that be convenient enough?
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Crosman is on fire lately. I recently purchased a Benjamin Marauder in .25 and the rifle is an absolute hammer. Beautiful finish quality and wonderfully accurate. Game up to coyote sized is well within the capability of the Benjamin Marauder .25 cal. I don’t think I’d spend $900 on an upper but their other PCP air products are every bit as accurate as the pricey European rifles at 1/3rd the price.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Ian, there are plenty of large caliber airguns out there, including .45, .50, and above. they’ll set you back though.
January 24th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Remarkably hard to find via a web search though. And it looks like they’re all longarms; which doesn’t actually help all that much legally in NJ.
January 24th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I suppose I ought to clarify that. In NJ, longarms are just as illegal as handguns; but… (and this is a big one), the handgun clause reads “Any person who knowingly has in his possession any handgun … without first having obtained a permit to carry the same … is guilty…”; whereas the longarms clause reads “Any person who knowingly has in his possession any rifle or shotgun without having first obtained a firearms purchaser identification card … is guilty …”
The FID being shall-issue and required to purchase a longarm or handgun ammo (undefined) in-state. If I wanted to carry a longarm, I theoretically could under that clause without having to mess around with the odd clause in the handgun ban regarding “air gun … ejecting a bullet … smaller than 3/8s of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.” (That defines when an airgun is a handgun – which is why airsoft is presumptively legal, but a BB gun isn’t.)