Crosman 357/ 6 Review

Overall Rating

10 Shot rotary magazine, which fires pellets. Spare magazines are cheap.
Double and Single Action, and it is very smooth using the Single Action trigger.
Excellent sights, and good accuracy.
Looks realistic, and has much metal construction making it heavier (more realistic) than some other CO2 pistols.
Very powerful.
Good safety.

This is my 4th air pistol, and 2nd CO2 pistol. I am very impressed with its performance, and with its construction. It has heaps of power initially, it can break bottle after bottle at 10 metres, at ~50 shots the power drop is very noticable. At this stage onwards the pellets bounce off tin cans and will no longer break bottles, but it can still be used to shoot aluminium cans to maybe 80 shots. At the extreme where the gun jams as there isn't even enough power to push pellet out of the magazine and into the barrel is around the range of 80 - 110 shots. Therefore I change CO2 after 70 shots on that gun. It seems to be very accurate and has excellent sights. This gun can use Single or Double Action on the trigger. Single Action means you pull the hammer back first, then pull the trigger to shoot. Doing it this way is very smooth, and it is how I use the gun. But obviously it is slower. Double Action is where you pull the trigger and the hammer moves back by itself and then it clicks forward and fires the pistol. This allows you to fire the pistol off quickly as semi auto, just keep pulling the trigger. The rotary 10 shot mags hold a good number of pellets, and are easy to change, and spare magazines are cheap to buy. The fact that this gun has a lot of metal construction means it is heavy which makes it more realistic and more sturdy, but also the area around the CO2 Cartridge is metal, so the heat from your hand is drawn into the handle and to the CO2, helping keep the internal CO2 pressure high.
I recommend this pistol to anyone wanting a more powerful CO2 pellet gun, but if you are after a cheap to run CO2 BB gun I'd recommend to Gamo PX-107 or V-3.

Members' Comments onCommissarHunt's Review

• boondocksaint on 17th Aug 2007

  Do you have the px-107 and the v-3 because from what I've heard i would never buy nor even recommend one to somebody. Although maybe you got a good one.

• CommissarHunt on 20th Aug 2007

  Yes I do, but my PX-107 stopped working after ~2,500 shots, needed warranty repair. Seems OK now, but hardly go out as its winter, and I've lost interest. BTW my Walther PPK/S only lasted about 1,200 shots until it blew its internal seal.

• bmwm31997 on 18th Jan 2009

  i think Id recomend a daisy powerline 15xt its much cheaper and lasted me 2 years