Crosman Legacy 1000 Reviews

Great gun. Accurate and very powerful! Shot through 8 pieces of cardboard with a bb! People complained on here, but I really like it and it is very durable and heavy weight.

Pumping is a bit hard.

Better with scope

the fiber optics. trigger ok. accurate. fun little plinker. bb mag is nice. the reservoir holds a lot.

not much, got what i paid for

it lives on bb's. several thousand through it so far. the only trouble was the barrel band cracked after thousands of rounds. still shoots great.

large bb resevervoir , fairly accurate , able to put on safe at any time , able to pump without cocking , fiber optic sights

pellet loading is horrible , need a mag system like m417

feels very toy like , lots of flex while pumping , daisy 901 is way better gun imho

Accurate with lead pellets like Crosman Premier Hollow Points and Meisterkugeln 7.0 gr wadcutters.

Make it easier to pump. Make it easier to cock.

From a rest, with BBs the best I could do was 2 and half inch groups from 30 feet. With pellets quarter inch five shot groups. This gun beats you up over time. It is an effort to pump. My fingers got numb from cocking the gun after awhile. There are better multi pump options available. Crosman M4-177 or Daisy 880. Both are fun to shoot and accurate.

Very light rifle ... Accurate and Fun to plink with !!!

Nothing

Great rifle

Very high quality, especially for price. Good accuracy even with kit scope. Light weight is great for small shooters like me, but gun still feels very durable.

Pumping action is firm. Agree with other reviews that pellets are hard to load; highly recommend Crosman brand pellet loader (which works pretty well).

Powerful and lightweight beginner or everyday gun.

Good price . Excellent build quality . Good weight and handling . Accurate with iron sights (didn't try scope)

Easier loading! In my opinion, this airgun was designed to shoot BBs, with pellets a secondary option. Loading it with individual pellets isn't impossible, but it's more difficult than with any other .177 caliber variable pump pneumatic air rifle or pistol I own (and as far as I know, I have all but maybe two or three of any I've found online in about twenty years). After nearly two weeks of regular use, I still am unable to reliably load & shoot one pellet. I can slide-push a pellet to a spot where it rolls into the breech aligned correctly ~65% of the time, vs ~95% with my other airguns, with a tweezer needed to remove and reload backwards-facing and other mis-aligned pellets. When target shooting, I often end up using a tweezer for every pellet. This would be worse outdoors. If it did happen outside, I have a tweezer in my pocket knife that could help, but in my opinion, it just should be simpler. This is the first and only airgun I've ever purchased for which I have this complaint.

The Legacy 1000 is accurate. The front sight is fixed but functional. The adjustable rear sight is of low quality but also functional, pretty much the same as that on other entry-level airguns. Surprisingly (to me), the rifle I received is less powerful than my Winchester 1977xs (about the same as Daisy 880), so it's more difficult to pump than it should be, IMO. I have no chronograph, but each rifle, with Gamo Magnum pellets, was fired four times into four targets across the same 25 slice cardboard trap, the Winchester 1977xs with 3, 6, 9 & 10 pumps & the Crosman with 3, 6, 9 & 12 pumps. The 1977xs shot further in with 3 pumps and through all 25 slices with 6 pumps (went through the 25th but stuck in place), 9 pumps & 10 pumps, while the Legacy 1000 penetrated less with 3 & 6 pumps and through all twenty five only with 9 & 12. The 1977xs pumps up much easier but shoots a good bit harder than my Legacy 1000, so pumping should be as easy or easier or the speed much higher (again, IMO).

Easy to charge . Decent trigger . Good weight . Nice looking . Generally comparable to other entry-level airguns in price and performance

Very difficult to load. Rear sight assembly is awful: to achieve accuracy, mine ended up as high as it could go and so far to the right it was awkward to center the front 'square' in the rear cutout. I read a lot about exceptional power and accuracy in the reviews (my main reason for purchase), but it seemed no more powerful than my other variable pumpers (Crosman, Winchester, Daisy, Umarex and Benjamin). This cost a bit more than my Winchester 1977XS a few months ago, but I discovered I like the 77XS far more. The 77XS seems just as powerful, is just as easy to pump up and the sights allow me to be MUCH more accurate. The worst was loading pellets. A full half of everything I dropped in the feeder ended up backwards or needing adjustment. Unlike every other pumper I own, I could not 'place' pellets in the breech, they had to be dropped. Eventually resorted to tweezers for EVERY pellet! I expected this to surpass my 77XS in performance, so I was very disappointed. Returned for refund.

I'll never complain about loading pellets in my other air rifles again! ;-) I put out about 300 shots today, using a tweezer for every pellet in the Legacy 1000 and putting pellets in my 77XS with my fingers. I muffed ONE pellet in the 77XS and had to adjust it with tweezers, compared to every pellet in the Legacy. Pumping already uses up enough time between shots, so the extra time to load the Crosman is a huge drawback. It was no more accurate than my other air rifles, and I didn't much care for the front sight fiber-optic in the large plastic square. I found it much easier to aim and be accurate with my 77XS than with this rifle, even after many hundreds of rounds and a week of practice. The trigger was slightly better than that on the Winchester, which I fully expected to be replaced as my best .177 plinker/shooter by this air rifle. Not even close -- I like the Winchester much more. Better than Daisy, Umarex and Crosman, close but not quite equal to 77XS. Good but not quite great.

nice , powerful

more metal

hard to beat for the price

Nothing. Assembled in USA with junk chinese parts.

EVERYTHING!!

Don't buy this piece of junk.

I like that it's a pump rifle and holds alot of bb's. Light weight, so pretty much anyone can take it anywhere.

I don't like the front sight tip. I prefer it just black tip.

I really enjoy the selection this company offers and delivery is quick. I strongly recommend this company to everyone!

Incredibly easy to use, super powerful, very accurate.

Pump action can take a lot out of you, but its worth it!

The pump action can wear you out, but the power your projectiles will receive is well worth the effort! Awesome weapon! Thank you Crosman!

Inexpensive and accurate.

Wood instead of plastic.

This Legacy has approximately 200 pellets thru it, and has made a 1-3/8" group at 10 yds using JSB Match Exact 7.33 gr, and the iron sights. The shot sound is backyard friendly at 10 pumps, 510 fps, which produced the best accuracy. 4.23 fpe. The sights are plenty sufficient, with elevation and windage adjustability. On the 10th pump the effort is around an easy15 lbs, the lever being a long 10- 3/4". The pump should receive Pellgun oil often enough to feel the lubrication during pumping. The single-stage .steel. trigger is excellent- around a few pounds pull and smooth if we'll lubed. The stock is substantial in strength. The cross-bolt safety is in the right place, but makes an audible click when positioned, even if slowly using a thumb and finger. The rifle is somewhat muzzle heavy, but the gun is so light overall it puts some weight where it's needed when aiming. Cocking the bolt back isn't the easiest, but shouldn't be a problem. It's a fine and recommended gun for the price

Bigger loading opening. Smooth the safety cam.

The open sights allow getting on target quickly. Carry or mount a soft poker for aligning the pellet in the chamber. Lube it a lot. It's price is low and it's performance is fine.

I freely admit that this was a nostalgia purchase, but it was on sale and what can I say? Plus, its rated for two more pumps - 12 instead of 10.

Well, it's all plastic, and I always consider wood nicer, but at this price point, I'm not complaining. I would like to see the buttstock filled with an expanding foam so that hollow sound disappears.

Good beginning gun for kids. Variable pressure available so it can be used in a basement with minimum pumps. Loading port is difficult for big fingers. I solved that by using lead round ball ammo (Gamo). Its sized to take the rifling so the magnet isn't needed. Just drop one in the port and close the bolt.

I'm very familiar of the 2100/AM77 so no surprises with Legacy 1000. I like the look, size, weight of the rifle and with this one the accuracy right out of the box (after looking it over, making sure all is secure, bbl cleaned, etc.) after adjusted the sights and soon mounting a 3 MOA dot size red-dot sight. I am getting a cluster of several shots at 50' that are slightly bigger than a navy bean. I like accuracy.

I would try to get way closer to that 10 FPE mark at max (12 pumps) if I were making a point, a big deal of it in advertising. The one I got even after a tiny amount of proper oiling with the correct oil (silicone AG oil) only achieved 8.4 FPE on 12 pumps with 8.64 grain 4.52 mm H & N FTT pellets. I tested a number of pellets several times. One time several years ago I had a unmodded new out of the box Remington AM77 that actually did produce 10 FPE on 10 pumps - to be exact 10.4 FPE and that was with CPLs 7.9 grain. So it is possible without mods/tuning. Just quality control rather than luck will get a 10 FPE or so gun into many buyers hands.

Don't be afraid of plastic. Don't hold pistol grip of shoulder stock to pump - especially to several or 12 max pumps. Don't do that super fast wild little boy style pumping. Even with compact scope or red-dot sight you can still grab in that area and with other hand do smooth full pump strokes all the way out and all the way back to compression tube. So many cheat like push ups and don't get air in on a stroke or 2. To heck with BBs - use those in your Red Ryder! Easy on the oil/lube and in the right locations. With a little practice loading will become much easier (pellets). Don't leave this gun out in the Sun on a table or whatever all day! Store with a couple of pumps in gun - but not cocked nor loaded.

Variable power is great.

Loading of pellets is awkward. It's hard to get them in oriented the right way.

Price is very reasonable. 8-pumps is all you need instead of the 10 or 12 that other rifles require. Velocity is very good and the fiber optic sights are decent.

It would be great is the stock was adjustable or had an option of two interchangeable lengths so adults and kids can share with comfort.

We have a chronograph. With the Crosman Premier HP pellet and the chrono 10-feet from the muzzle we get 812 fps with 8-pumps, 634 fps with 5-pumps and 485 fps with 3 pumps. My two 12-year old boys can pump this themselves but struggle with pump # 7 and #8 when they pump that much. We have a 4X20 scope on it. The rifle shoots nickel sized groups at 15-yards with 5-pumps. At 25 yards it really does best with 8-pumps and will group about 1.25". While some may think this is a little light on Ft/lbs for rabbit hunting, we have taken many out to 25 yard with head shots. We keep the squirrel shooting to 15 (maybe 20) yards max because the groups open too much for a consistent head shot on a squirrel further out. The rifle is very quiet, the noise from pumping is louder than the report. We've shot over 500 pellets in 9 months and it still works very consistently. We have not tried BB's.

love this rifle I put a leapers accushot mount + good scope an this thing shoots way better than expected

too soon hav to shoot it more

being something new hav to see how long it last without a problem

The gun is very accurate mine loves the 7.9 CROSMAN PELLETS I use this gun for small game hunting I no longer shoot a 22 rifle I love this gun I also have 2 break barrel rifles the advantage of this gun is there is no reverse recoil {easy on scopes}

I had the same problem a lot of people have The supports between the receiver halves break I fixed mine by drilling through with a small bit and installing small screws with washers and lock nuts PROBLEM SOLVED. I think a few small things could be done to this gun as far as build quality of course price would go up - and it would be the perfect air gun for small game hunting

I love this gun-cant be beat for the price I have worked with guns and done maintenance work all my life this is a great gun for the price if u are able to fix a few minor issues on it