Crosman Legacy 1000 – One Hundred Year Edition.
This report covers:
- Velocity per pump stroke
- Average velocity on the same number of pumps
- Discharge
- RWS Superdomes
- Crosman Premier 10.5-grain domes
- Now with BBs
- Five-pump test
- Loading and feeding
- Pump effort
- Trigger pull
- Summary
Today we look at the velocity of the Crosman Legacy 1000, One-Hundred Year Edition multi-pump pneumatic rifle. Since I have a lot of tests in the mill, I put both pellets and BBs into this one. Lots to cover so let’s begin.
Velocity per pump stroke
In this test I will test a single pellet with differing numbers of pumps strokes. The manual says the Crosman Legacy 1000 should be pumped no less than three nor more than twelve times, so those will be parameters of the test. I will show each shot.
I chose the Crosman Premier 7.9-grain dome for this test. Crosman no longer makes such a pellet, but I presume their 7.9-grain hollowpoint is closest to its performance because it is domed.
Pumps……….Vel.
3……………….463
4……………….542
5……………….581
6……………….616
7……………….659
8……………….682
9……………….704
10……………..716
11……………..734 no air left after shot
12……………..742 no air left after shot
At the highest average velocity this pellet developed 9.66 foot pounds/13.10 joules of energy at the muzzle. I tested for air remaining after shooting on 11 and 12 pumps strokes and there was none.
Average velocity on the same number of pumps
Now, let’s pick a number of pump strokes, say five, and test the same Premier 7.9-grain domes for a string of 10 shots.
Shot………..Vel.
1…………….596
2…………….600
3…………….595
4…………….597
5…………….601
6…………….596
7…………….599
8…………….597
9…………….592
10…………..597
The average for this string of ten shots fired on five pump strokes is 597 f.p.s. The extreme variation is 9 f.p.s. Therefore this Crosman Legacy 1000 is pretty consistent.
At the end of this string I pumped the Legacy 1000 12 times and shot one of the same pellets that, in the first test, went out at 742 f.p.s. This time the velocity was 738 f.p.s. That’s more evidence of consistency.
Discharge
The discharge sound for 5 pumps was 98.9 dB. For 12 pumps it was 117.5 dB.
Five pumps of air.
Twelve pumps of air.
RWS Superdomes
Next to be tested were 8.3-grain RWS Superdomes. I tested them on five pump strokes. The average for 10 shots was 595 f.p.s. The spread was 10 f.p.s., from 589 to 599 f.p.s. I will mention that Superdomes loaded a little hard.
After that test I pumped the rifle 12 times and sent the same Superdome out at 744 f.p.s. At that speed this pellet develops 10.2 foot-pounds/13.83 joules.
Crosman Premier 10.5-grain domes
I did the same five-pump test for Crosman Premier 10.5-grain domes.
Shot………..Vel.
1…………….530
2…………….534
3…………….536
4…………….530
5…………….534
6…………….531
7…………….534
8…………….526
9…………….529
10…………..534
The average for this string is 532 f.p.s. The extreme spread is 10 f.p.s. — from 526 to 536 f.p.s.
The maximum velocity on 12 pumps 659 f.p.s. At that velocity this pellet develops 10.13 foot pounds.
Now with BBs
I only tested one BB in the rifle — a Crosman Black Widow. I tested the ease of loading the upper spring-loaded mag from the larger internal mag and, as reader shootski reminded us, it’s a matter of twisting and shouting! It works as advertised. But it’s also possible and even easy to load BBs singly.
Once again I did the velocity per pump stroke test. Here is what that gave.
Pumps……….Vel.
3……………….513
4……………….572
5……………….618
6……………….654
7……………….677
8……………….717
9……………….734
10……………..716
11……………..745 no air left after shot
12……………..760 no air left after shot
Five-pump test
I next tested Black Widow BBs with five pumps of air and got the following results.
Shot………..Vel.
1…………….624
2…………….624
3…………….625
4…………….623
5…………….628
6…………….622
7…………….640
8…………….623
9…………….634
10…………..633
The average for this string is 628 f.p.s. I then pumped the rifle 12 times and the BB went out at 673 f.p.s.
Loading and feeding
I did find loading pellets into the rifle as easy as I imagined. But, as was mentioned, a few did get turned around.
The pellets loaded easily.
The “secret” to loading this rifle with pellets, if there is one, is to hold the rifle nearly level and canted slightly toward the rifle’s left side. Place a pellet on the edge of the loading port and let it roll into the channel.
I did find that Premier pellets of both weights loaded easily. RWS Superdomes loaded hard, with a click as the bolt pushed them into the breech.
Pump effort
I tested the effort needed to pump the rifle for all pumps from 3 to 12. I used a bathroom scale and pumped the rifle slowly and deliberately
Pumps………Effort (lbs.)
3……………….23
4……………….24
5……………….25
6……………….25
7……………….25
8……………….27
9……………….26
10……………..26
11……………..26
12……………..26
Trigger pull
The single-stage trigger pull is the same no matter how many pumps have been made. The trigger on the test rifle breaks at 5 pounds 14 ounces.
Summary
Now we know what to expect from the Legacy 1000. I’ll test it for accuracy next and I’ll use the open sights that came on the rifle. If I see some potential I may mount a scope or dot sight, as well.