Sheridan 2260MB CO2 Rifle air Rifle

Quite accurate out to 50 yards with iron sights.

Metal breech instead of plastic. 11mm scope rails machined into the breech. Very nice upgrade. Unfortunately there are no LPA MIM rear sights. Instead there is a stamped metal aperture with stepped plastic block for elevation adjustment.The rifle was shipped from Pyramid Air in a plain brown corrugated box. Foam inserts and manual were the only other items in the box. I was a little let down. I was expecting a special printed box since this was limited build model. Ah well, I would have woo'd over it for about five minutes, then toss it in the recycle bin. This plain box was packed in yet another plain corrugated box, which was in another plain corrugated box. Yes, triple boxed.Out of the box quality inspection.....Although the stock had an acceptable finish, on close inspection there were a couple of defects in the shaping of the stock. Too much wood was removed in some places. The fine finishing sanding didn't hide the defects. This left the stock asymmetrical from side to side, but the dark satin stain finish looked great. You couldn't tell there was a defect unless your were looking for it.The external surface of the barrel was beginning to rust, while the internal rifled surface appeared to be clean. I wiped the barrel down with a rag soaked in WD40. It looked great after that. I was glad to see a decent crowning at the muzzle.The bolt cocking operation was smooth.The finish on the gas tube was excellent.There was a plastic butt pad instead of a rubber one.The rear sight was rotated off axis, roughly 5 degrees, from the front sight. It was pretty bad. I physically rotated the rear sight until it lined up with the front sight. It was too easy to move and therefor probably not going to be reliable down the road. Since I have poor eyesight, I had already planned to install a scope. So I removed the front sight and the rear sight with a block of wood and a hammer. This revealed the source of the canted rear sight. It seems the flat on the barrel for the rear sight was machined off axis to the flat for the front sight.The rifle is well balanced, coming in around 3 pounds.I installed a Beileshi 6-24X50mm AOEG Optics Hunting Rifle Scope Red/Green Illuminated Crosshair Gun Scope With Flip Up Scope Covers using BKL 1 Rings, 3/8 or 11mm Dovetail, Offset. Why an overkill scope for a short range rifle? Because I wanted to. The additions increased the overall weight by 1 pound.I started 5 shot strings without cleaning the rifling in the barrel.The following pellets performed well, 0.7" groups at 15 yards.JSB Match Exact Jumbo Heavy Diabolo; 18.13grJSB Match Exact Jumbo Monster Diabolo; 25.39grJSB Match Exact Jumbo Diabolo; 18.13grJSB JSB Straton Jumbo; 15.89grThe following pellets performed very well, 0.5" groups at 15 yards.Benjamin Discovery Hollow Point; 14.3grCrosman Premier Ultra Magnum Domed; 14.3grCrosman Premier Hollow Point; 14.3grCrosman Powershot Red Flight Penetrators; 16.7grNone of the pellets listed produced a flyer during that test. I don't own a chrony, so I can't provide velocity results. I can tell you that all of the pellets punched large clean holes on both sides of a very stiff soup can that was strapped to a butcher-block board. The Powershot Penetrators and the Crosman Premier pellets were more affordable than the rest, so I am going to leave the scope zero'd for them. The heavier pellet groupings fell 0.25 to 1 inch below the bulls-eye.Crosman powerlets provided 38 to 40 well powered shots, and sharply dropped of until empty. In the tests I performed, all powerlets were empty before the 45th shot.I found the trigger to be a little rough, but ok enough to shoot tight groups. Perhaps the trigger will be more a factor for ranges farther than 15 yards. For now it's fine. And although the trigger and tigger guard are plastic, I don't see any reason to swap them out for metal parts....just yet.As for the report, I found it much quieter than I had expected. However, it is loud enough to draw neighborhood attention.All in all, I am happy with the form, fit, and function of this air rifle.There are a few mods for the Crosman 22xx family I find interesting. But for now, I am just going stock.I highly recommend this air rifle at its current offering under $160 including sales tax and shipping.

Great little gun make sure you have a good barrel cause if theres a problem thats where youll find it.