crosman nightstalker tk review

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Average Ratings

Accuracy	7/10
Handling	7.6/10
Value for Money	5.5/10
Reviewer Rating	6/10
Overall Rating	7.4/10

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By CenturionKX1230 on 15th Aug 2007

CenturionKX1230's Ratings

Accuracy	5/10
Handling	8/10
Value for money	1/10
Overall value	2/10
CenturionKX1230's recommendation

Good Points

As mentioned in earlier review

Bad Points

As mentioned in earlier review

General Comments

This is an update on my earlier review of this weapon.
Having returned my first NightStalker to Crosman and after some extensive haggling receiving a brand new one, plus a couple of AirSource capsule as well as a couple tins of pellets, I decided to test the newly received specimen, which performed even worse than the first one.
It did not fire semi-automatic and had to be re-cocked after each shot, no matter how carefully I handled the AirSource Capsules.
The trigger pressure, required to squeeze off a round was horrendous and more often than not, the trigger failed to return in the forward position.
Loading a clip was an unpleasant and difficult task and often the pellets would fall out of the clip due to the required forceful action required. This eventually resulted in one of the pellets getting into the internals of the rifle and getting stuck in a place that was impossible to reach without taking the weapon completely apart, which I do not recommend to the average user.
By now fully knowing and certainly not caring to use it ever again, I decided to take it apart. The offending pellet was dislodged and removed and upon inspection of the trigger mechanism assembly and the clip advancing mechanism, I found that several parts did not have the casting remnants properly removed and were obviously forced in place at the time of assembly, which caused the obnoxious trigger behavior and difficult clip insertion. Some of the springs in the internals were made out of plastic. I corrected this by carefully cleaning and cutting the parts to what they were supposed to be to begin with and replacing the plastic springs with proper metal ones. I managed to piece the weapon together again and 'lo and behold', it actually worked. After about a 1000 pellets, however, its seals started to leak and by then I had thoroughly enough of this product.

Buyer beware of the Crosman NightStalker. Now that I have inspected its internals in detail of its distinctly inferior quality, very shoddy manufacture and essentially flawed design, I stripped it of whatever parts were potentially salvageable and threw away the rest so as to cleanse my living environment of this horrific feat of malfeasance by Crosman.
Eventually I purchased a tried and true Crossman 1077 repeater (see my review on the 1077) and have to admit that this is for less than half the price a much more enjoyable, reliable and accurate product.

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