I picked this Benjamin 3030 CO2 BB “rifle” (since it isn’t rifled) up on Gunbroker. I was always intrigued by the design and the advertised ability to “drive steel bb's clear through both sides of a 5 gal. steel pail at close range”. Why I’d want to do that isn’t the issue.
The rifle, rusty and dirty.
The wood looks like it could use a refinish.
The metal is pitted so I’m not sure what I’ll do. Probably paint it.
It cocks similarly to the Crosman 700/707 which it seems to share a similar mechanism with.
That’s the end of the 8 gram CO2 bulb sitting inside the cap.
Remove the stock screw.
Simple trigger.
An old rusty CO2 cartridge.
The cartridge seals here below the neck.
All that debris makes for a gritty trigger.
Two pins retain the trigger and spring.
Rear sight.
Removed.
More to come...
5 comments:
Have you done anything more to the 30/30? just picked one up and anxious to see how it shoots. Is this a 22 or a 177? did they come in both? Did you lengthen the cartridge magazine or get 8 gram cartridges. albert yoepatties@yahoo.com
I got it working, but lost interest in getting it to be less of a gas hog. (there are a bunch of posts showing reassembly, BTW). Mostly I ran out of 8gr. carts and I've been too cheap to buy more.
well I got my carts, and it dumps the whole cartridge
in 1 shot..
If you would like to sell the 3030 I would be interested...njmark53@yahoo.com...have a parts gun i wore out as a kid...bty just before the rifle wore out it would only shoot full auto...bb feed tube completely wore away...
I bought a model 30/30 in early 2025 for thirty bucks as/is from an airgun dealer online and after disassembly, clean and lube, it gets 20-25 full power shots then one low power shot before empty. I bought thirty thousand BBs and one hundred CO2s ive now shot up everything in sight and still have sixty or so CO2s left about twenty five thousand BBs left. Most fun airgun I own!
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