Out-of-the-box review and testing of the Crosman Legacy 1,000 .177 air rifle, purchased in 2021

I've been meaning to get to videoing the Crosman Legacy 1,000 I bought at Walmart a couple of years ago. It's been behind a door, still sealed in the box all this time. I've been doing a lot of videoing on .22 caliber air rifles lately, primarily because I like their knock down power at 25 yards. So much more than my average .177 air rifle. So far, the most powerful .177 caliber I have is the Umarex Air Hawk, but mine isn't real reliable with certain types of pellets, and seems to have a breech that doesn't close tightly all the time. Still it shoots in the 900 fps. Then there's my old trusty Daisy 880. Very accurate, reliable, and fast. It's best speeds, however, are in the 700 fps category, which gives me about 7-8 ft/lbs. At 25 yards, it starts to lose knock down power.

The Legacy 1,000 is my best bet in an inexpensive pump air rifle to get me in the 800 to 950 fps range.

In the first part of the video, I take a look at the air rifle right out of the box. In the second part, I run it through numerous speed tests. Unfortunately, after shooting it just under 40 times, something happened, and I lost optimal performance. It went to shootng high 700's for lead pellets to mid 500's, and worse went from 800 fps on the Crosman Gold Flight penetrating round to the mid 500's.

I probably let this air rifle sit too long, and then broke it in too hard, so to say it it not a good air rifle is pre-mature and not fair. I suspect the o-ring slipped or cracked, hence only a loss of some power, not a total loss of power. I made the decision to go ahead and do this video, as it shows sometimes things don't work. Not blaming anybody. I hope to fix this soon, however, it will have to wait for work I am doing on my next big project, a "Super Drifter" starting with changing a .177 1377 to a .22 Drifter. Soon after that, I will replace the valve cylinder in the newly modified Drifter with the flat top valve cylinder/flat top piston combo. This will improve the speed of the Drifter, but will also supply me with a perfectly good Crosman valve cylinder, which, if I need to, can be used in the repairs of this Legacy. Once I get this Legacy repaired, and back up to speed, I will continue with speed tests, and then do some target shooting. Eventually, I plan to do some open-site comparison between this Legacy and my 1990 Daisy 880