The firm was based in Fairport, New York, a suburb of Rochester (from the print on the bottom of free vintage targets available as a pdf on the company's website).

In 1960 it was acquired by Bangor Punta Corp.[1] In 1970, the company moved to a small town in the finger lakes region, East Bloomfield.

By 2015, Benjamin was positioned as Crosman Corporation's adult hunting and high performance line and Sheridan had its name on one model: the Cowboy, a youth-oriented lever action.

[3] Originally developed and the trademark owned by Crosman Corporation[citation needed] and introduced to the market in 1954, the Powerlet CO2 cartridge has become the dominant source of power for inexpensive, rapid fire air guns from many manufacturers.

Because liquid CO2 needs to vaporize to gaseous form to be usable, latent heat is absorbed every time a shot is discharged, cooling the canister.

When discharging repeatedly, the temperature within the Powerlet canister can drop low enough to affect the vapor-liquid equilibrium and reduce the vapor pressure significantly.

This causes a problem due to the rapid-fire nature of many competitive paintball skirmishes, so the high-pressure air (HPA, or "N2") systems are more commonly used.

- 766 American Classic 1-3 Includes Variants* Crosman has manufactured and sold the Benjamin-Sheridan and Sheridan model airguns for many years.

These models are still made to the higher quality standards of the originals, with wood stocks and primarily brass and steel components.