Page 116 - Barra Cowboy Series 1866 Reviews

I like the lightness of the gun. The sights are great. I bought for my grandchild, it is a perfect fit for her, the pump very easy to pump. I am very pleased with this gun.

I can't think of anything.

Be safe with children, teach them gun safety. They do have quite a pop.

Got the item for my daughter for Christmas it's beautiful love the wood work on it. It shoot great as well easy to aim light weight just what we needed for our daughter to learn how to shoot.

Very accurate. I love the octagon barrel very different

I would like to see that gold plastic in metal

Very accurate gun for the price

Looks cool. Good inexpensive gun.

The way the pellets are to be loaded into the gun. The way to pump up. On mine, it seems I need to cock the gun before it will allow pumping.

Loading the pellet sucks. Takes way to long. Very difficult to simply drop the pellet in. Need to use a stick or something similar to get the pellet straight. Most of the time the pellet drops into the area of the b-b's. Not a good design.

Interesting looks, easy to pump up, selectability of power levels.

Improve trigger, have a dovetail or some method to easily mount a scope, that doesn't detract too much from the looks.

Difficult to load pellets, may need a tweezer to load pellet if you have large fingers. Have to be careful to keep pellet from getting into BB feed hole, just don't pull cocking bolt back past the feed hole.

Pretty gun. Nice to be abble to shoot Pellets or BB's with the same Rifle !

Faux Wood is not so nice.

Very good replica of Henry Golden Boy

Very hard for me to put pellets in the gun! My fingers are very large.

Shoots very hard but I don't care for the very long pump handle, awkward.

It's light and quiet

The finish on the brass, finger prints everywhere

I bought this because it looks so much like a Henry rifle. A light weight rifle and easy to pump. I' m a 5' 2" woman and I cannot use a break barrel because I don't have the strength. Very accurate with tight groupings in the bullseye!

Nothing, for the price an amazing, accurate rifle.

A great deal and easy and fun to use. Can pump 3 times to hit target at 20 feet in a homemade garage range. Can't wait to go to the airgun range when they open back up after the COVID-19 pandemic passes. Want to pump it 10 times to shoot it 50 feet!

Interesting multi-pump. Compared the Barra to my Henry .22 and realized some of the dimensions we're similar. Was able to use some spare rimfire components on the Barra. Most notably the cantalever scope mount can be fitted directly behind the rear sight. You will have to clip off the last two notches of the sight ramp and drill & tap the metal barrel shroud. Number 2 blue thread lock the two screws and you have a rock solid Weaver rail for optics if you so choose. A lite weight 3-9x32 Simmons scope fits and works well. Eliminated the hollow stock with some filler and applied Talon grip tape to the slippery butt pad. Adding a Beartooth cheek riser provides a good sight alignment for the Simmons scope. An Uncle Mike's .22 barrel band allowed for installation of a sling and covered the fore grip with Realtree Edge camo wrap which matches the cheek riser. Even the hammer extension fit perfectly w/o modification. Did I go overboard on this? Sure I did but it's been a great project!

Think I've remedied most of the things that I wanted changed.

This was a nice project that kept me busy during our quarintine . Probably wouldn't have attempted this had it not been for the fact that 95 percent of the parts were already on hand. The scope does improve accuracy. It consistently one holes RWS Superdomes at 30 feet.

Look and feels very realistic. Shoots very good, and is very hard hitting for for a .177 cal. Shoots over 700 FPS with 8.0 gn lead pellets.

Better bolt for cocking the rifle, and a loading port in the side of the receiver.

It maybe just mine but the magnet tip on the bolt broke off, but still works well. There is a little piece of magnet still there. I do not shoot BBS anyway.

Great looking bb rifle, weight feels good, action works great accurate shooter

Would gladly pay more for this gun with a metal receiver

Just be safe when using this rifle

A lot of fun. Accurate at about 10-12 yards. 15 is a little sketchy, but I'm not the best shot. Ive only shot pellets through this and they are great. Havent tried BBs, and I'm not sure if I will since the barrel is rifled. Super easy to pump. You want something that is super light, super fun, and you can pump all day, then buy this.

The loading of pellets. It's not too difficult, especially since you can drop them in place most of the time, but a kid would have a much easier time. I've had a few fall back where the BBs go, but they fall right out if you hold the rifle upside down. And it is all plastic. Feels sturdy, but there should definitely be more metal.

It's just a cheap, fun, plinker

You know i had no real idea what this rifle would look like or feel like until i received it. Wow! On the one hand the rifle had somewhat of a toy look until you pick it up and the weight immediately changes the perspective one has. I have a toy gun from my kids youth that was pretty common as a souvenir toy gun. Looks just like this one only much smaller. Anyway i have been shooting it daily and find that it is a really sweet little rifle. Everything on it except the barrel and the pumping mechanism is plastic. How long it will last before something plastic cracks or breaks remains to be seen. But regardless of that fact this rifle is well worth the 80.00 dollars one will spend. It is very accurate and can out shoot me.The pumping action is amazingly easy all the way to 10 pumps and it appears to hold the point of aim regardless of whether it has been pumped 2 times or 10 times. Loading pellets was not a big problem. You get used to it.

Can't think of anything other then use more metal which is unlikely to occur.

It is possible to get a pellet stuck in the opening of the breech where the BB would feed into the receiver. I had one disappear into the interior thru that hole but it eventually ended up stuck up right in the hole that the BB would enter into the breech area. No big deal as i have no intention of shooting BB's thru this rifle.

This gun is very cool. It looks like my husbands gun but was perfect as the BB gun for our son.

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Has a good weight to it so it doesn't feel cheap or flimsy like the 760 or 880. Very easy to pump, I thought o had a leak at first because of how easy it is to pump even on the 10th stroke. Coming from a Crosman 1322 and Benjamin 392, this was a nice surprise.

Loading a pellet is absurdly difficult. I spend half the time trying to drop a pellet into the chamber. As much as I like this gun, it may not stick around for this reason.

If you have adult sized hands and plan on only running pellets through your rifle, I'd seriously reconsider getting this one. Loading chamber is deep and really difficult to align a pellet in properly.

Generally everything but the sights

The sights and Put a rail for a scope or red dot sight

Nice gun worth the money wish it had a rail for a red dot

Fun and accurate for short distances. Eliminates the extra steps involved with co2 and maintenance. Yes, you still have to lubricate and clean.

I would prefer a different less shinny appearance. But, this isn't a downside.

If you want a little higher velocity then this is a great choice. It makes this choice a few feet more accurate than the older BB guns, given you are using a longer lever to build the pressure needed to reach the 30 or so for that.

Very accurate. Octagon metal barrel. Adjustable sights. Easy pump. Overall looks like the real thing. Good customer service.

Brass receiver. I would gladly paid more for the gun if it had a brass receiver and wood for stock instead of plastic. The gold colored plastic receiver can be easily scratched. Make sure you use a very soft cloth. It does pickup finger prints. Gun is made by Bear River and has a Barra website. Bear River in my opinion makes good quality air guns and this one seems to one of them. The Barra website only shows this gun, but I am hoping they will make more reproductions of rifles.

Bolt needs to be worked a few times to make it easier to pull back. Instructions in current manual state to pull up and back, but it only pulls back. Also instructions state the safety is next to the trigger, but it is actually the hammer. Manual states to use a light motor oil to oil parts of gun, which is a little unusual, since most air guns I own state to use a synthetic oil.

Everything about it(it is a dandy!)

Nothing

Better get one while they are available!