Page 7 - Crosman Vigilante Reviews

It is highly accurate with the Crosman premier hollow point pellets it also shoots good with the Gamo Red fire pellets, the pistol is lightweight but has enough weight to have a feel to it I get plenty shots on a single co2 cartridge.

Make the shroud metal so it will add more weight to the barrel to make it a little less wobbly, but other than that maybe some wood grips but that's it.

Keep your distance limited. But have fun and shoot save.

It works. Wonderful indoor target practice for both air and fire arms. Now if you are a serious shooter go on to the next review, for I am seriously out of practice shooting. Yeah, I had various little gripes and grumbles. But records of 25 ft indoor scores from a couple of years ago - Daggone. Did no better then with my Gamo competition target pistol (Air Venturi now), having a 5 lb lighter trigger and at 5 time$ the co$t. Might be I need shoot a bit more before rating any pistol. Shot 50 pellets through this one.

Only my own shooting skills.

Do actually read the instructions, mainly about how the safety works and perforating a CO2 cylinder. When one punctures the cylinder there is no HISS of escaping gas. Operate the action with deliberation, it can skip a chamber now & again.

Fairly accurate. I was also able to re-use the magazines from a previous gun.

Keep one side of handle screwed in vs. removable.

Excellent single action trigger, great fully adjustable sights, excellent accuracy (better groups so far then from my competition Springfield XDM 5.25 9mm) from 5 yards, great look and weight - all for $50!

For 50 bucks... nothing

One unnecessary visit in a restaurant could buy you years of fun.

The Rails and Accuracy.

Actually nothing.

Great all around. Put a red dot on the top rail, and a laser on the bottom and have a blast !!!

Perfect airgun and that price! Accurate even to 15 metres without laser, red dot or scope. Have even taken it further and was very impressed, add a sight aid and it goes from being a great gun to an amazing gun. Very accurate, excellent velocity. Can't go wrong. My favourite CO2 handgun to date. Even performed surprisingly well in the cold, when I first bought and tested it was unusually cold at around 0c and still gave 80 good shots per cartridge - even through and through holes in ravioli cans.

A little flimsy and plasticy in the grip area, some light rubber coating or similar would have added a bit more heft and solidity. Would have paid a few bucks more for that also. But for this price. Wouldn't change anything else.

Takes almost all the pellets I fed it well, preferred a few over some others, but everything shot through with a minimum of decent results. It especially liked the Crosman Premier pointed (not super pointed) at 7.4 grains. Had the feeling you could go heavier with even better results. I recommend as with any new airgun to buy a decent cleaning rod kit and give it a nice cleaning followed by oiling after shooting a cartridge worth of shots. Would even do it before. Usually lots of factory gunk and even rust left in the barrel right from the factory. Can be even more if its sat in the shelf a while. Enjoy shooting this fine revolver!

Gun is accurate and fun to shoot

The plastic grips and would like to see the gun have a little more weight to it

Get extra clips and fill them up and go have fun

Looks great, quick load, for my wife to scare off critters. Everything.

Nothing

I was pretty happy to see this come in the mail today. I had one of the older ones without the barrel upgrades which I sold a few years ago. So this was like having an old friend return. I'm liking the way they restyled the barrel to accept optics and lasers although I may never use them. This came with some of those excite lead bb's which I was eager to try. The gun is fairly accurate ringing a steel target I'd usually use with an AR15.

With this one I can't think of anything I might do differently. Maybe make the top rail more of a picatinny rail.

An old and decent gun with a nice barrel upgrade.

I really enjoyed using it. I'm even thinking about buying another one.

If it came with extra pellet and BB holders

I can't say enough good things about this Crosman Vigilante, I own 2 of them, One is the older 357 mag, before it was designated the "Vigilante" Super accurate with a cheap Red/green dot sight, affordable to buy and add extra mag wheel cylinders, east to operate, opens like a Scholfield. Shoots heavy wadcutter pellets best, dead on out to 30 yards, will punch a hole in a steel soup can inside or 25 yards on a straight on shot.

Maybe make a super Vigilante with twin CO2s, perhaps in 22 cal....?

Some tips
1) shoot Crosman 7.4 gr wadcutter pellets, cheap 1250 milk carton $8 at Walmart, best, most accurate.
2) Only use Umarex quality CO2s, the Daisy and Crosman are weak and dirty with soot
3) Use the clear Gamo air gun oil,Pelgun red dye crap sucks
4) a cheap Red/Green dot sight, $14-$20, it must have the narrow, straight tube not to cover the break button
5) I shoot my Vigilante without the grips, so my hand keeps the CO2 warmer and stronger
6) Buy a FOAMACTION Rifle and Pistol Shooting Block Bench Rest and weight it with a heavy bolt or fishing weight and seal it with Hot Melt Glue so it doesn't blow over.
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7) It's a personal choice, I paint all my realistic looking Air Guns with an Orange muzzle. I live in an Urban Setting, surrounded by Democrats
Here's a pic of my Vigilante, Hope this helped...

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this gun is inexpensive. I bought it from a deal on Amazon with a holster and 3 pellet magazines. and one BB mag. the rear sight are adjustable and its double actoin should you want to go that route

its a finished product

Price, you cant beat it. Its real fun to shoot not sure if it would actually kill a rat which is why I purchased the Vigilante. Accuracy not really there it maybe me Im still getting used to action.

The barrel was to short left a gap between breach and mag a lot of blow out. Shimed the barrel to close the gap. Im sure this improved the FPS.

Other than the poor fitting barrel this gun is great just know that for the money your getting a well built gun.

I got this last year for Christmas and i have put about 750 bbs and 500 pellets, I like the gamo red fire, the gamo tomohawk pellets i get 1.00" to 1.75" groups at 7 yards, It is so far my first and only co2 airgun and my second favorite airgun next to my daisy powerline 880 shadow with a winchester 4x32 AO rifle scope, which likes the same pellets. Any ways i love my crosman vigilante you could possibly kill a rabbit with a head shot 5-10 yards but i have so far only used as a plinker great job crosman.

Nothing except make it in .22 as well

You should buy this gun and that it is kind of loud when you first put in a co2 cartridge

Well balanced, easy to load both co2 and pellets. Single action let-off is not bad. Bought this to replace my aging 357. The Vigilante is better. You can't go wrong with a $49 purchase!

Demark the sights with front post green and rear notch red. I did it by painting with Testor's model paints. Made a big difference for acquiring bull's eye on targets!

If you shoot BB's you'll wreck the rifling. They'll also bounce back at you with the same fps you shot at. Lead won't do that.

I'm a newbie at airgunning and co2 shooting so my review isn't techy, gun is well balanced and accurate at a distance of 21- 33 feet using pellets, I do mostly bench shooting at my age. I also use the green dot scope from PA.

Plastic grips, I don't know what to change to, trigger could be lighter on DA, otherwise, it's fun to shoot.

I liked the inter changeable mags and the weight.

I would like to see the same only in the Dan Wesson style. I really like his weight and the use of cartridges that look so real.

nope

Built well and strong.

Miss fire a lot , May have co2 leaks , Co2 does not last long.

Fun and great for the money.

This gun us very accurate out to about 10 meters, shoots dime size holes at 20 feet shoots about 445 average with 7 grain miesterkuglens for about first 35 to 40 shots then gets about another 20 or so. Very fun gun to shoot.

Not much here to complain about for the price

Great gun for plinking in the back yard or play target games in the garage just as accurate as my 586 pellet pistol just not nearly as smooth

Good little revolver, especially in Single Action. Easy and quick to reload (with additional clips), does well with 8 to 12 grain pellets. Trigger is excellent in Single Action shooting. Accurate enough for plinking out to about 20 yards.

Make the grips a little better interlocking to reduce wiggle.

This is a great revolver, best shot single action (if you want to hit anything). It is a bit to easy to go through more pellets than you can afford in a day, same for CO2.

This is definitely a Plinker, not accurate enough for target shooting in my experience.

Because this has a rifled barrel I only shoot lead pellets out of it, I do not like using BB's in anything with a rifled barrel.