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re: Pellet Rifle?
Posted on 5/15/20 at 7:42 am to Drunken Crawfish
Posted on 5/15/20 at 7:42 am to Drunken Crawfish
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Spent about 2 hours trying to get it sighted in and that damn thing is jumping all over on me.
Don't discount that it might be whatever scope you are using too. Spring air rifles are notoriously hard on scopes especially ones not designed for the specific back-forward recoil pattern of an air rifle. My Ruger came with a cheap 4x scope. I tried to replace it with a nice Nikon center fire scope off my 308 and it would not hold zero one shot to the next. 5 shots later the Nikon was off and my cheap 4x was back on.
After a few shots look down the barrel and see if you see any whisps of smoke. Until all of the oil is burned out of the piston it's going to diesel. The extra kick from igniting the oils in the rifle gives it more punch and causes the velocity to be all over the place until all of it's burned off. It probably took over 100 rounds just to clear mine up of dieseling. When we were young and stupid we would squirt a little WD40 into the piston chamber forcing it to diesel which would cause the 22 pellet to actually go supersonic. Not good for your gun at all I don't suggest you do that.
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Posted on 5/15/20 at 8:03 am to DeoreDX
As a kid I got a crack barrel gamo that was something like 750fps .177 caliber and I was a death ray with that thing. It was great for squirrels. It had these little rubber damper things that clamped on the dovetail against the scope rings to help stop from beating the scope up. I remember it had pretty good open sights and at some point I just started using those and life was better without having to check the scope every few days
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:15 am to lsufan1971
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bird assassin with it.
What kind of birds y’all eating?
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:22 am to cubsfinger
Eurasian Collared Doves.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 11:18 am to AlxTgr
They are all over my backyard. There is a good chance I plant some sunflowers in the very back portion of my yard this fall
Posted on 5/15/20 at 2:28 pm to Drunken Crawfish
Should I just go ahead and shoot a couple of hundred rounds of cheap pellets through my gun before I worry about sighting it in?
Posted on 5/15/20 at 2:33 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Some say to. I did not have to with my newest one.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 2:46 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Break-in of air rifle
First thing I did when I got my air rifles was run a bore snake through it a few times. Then I used a bore sight just to get on paper. Then I put 50 pellets through it. Bore snake again. Another 50. Bore snake. I repeated that until I got to about 200 pellets through them. At around 100-150 I started honing in the scope.
Kind of a tedious process, but I had consistent accuracy after that.
First thing I did when I got my air rifles was run a bore snake through it a few times. Then I used a bore sight just to get on paper. Then I put 50 pellets through it. Bore snake again. Another 50. Bore snake. I repeated that until I got to about 200 pellets through them. At around 100-150 I started honing in the scope.
Kind of a tedious process, but I had consistent accuracy after that.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 3:30 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Should I just go ahead and shoot a couple of hundred rounds of cheap pellets through my gun before I worry about sighting it in?
Have you mentioned what the group size and shape is?
Mine was shooting silver dollars at 15 yards when I first got it and shrunk down to a dime at 15 yards after it broke in and I figured out the artillery hold. It was mostly vertical stringing for me. So lots of aluminum cans for targets at first until it broke in now I can shoot acorns. If you have a grape fruit sized shotgun pattern it's probably the scope.
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