Hey all,I'm having a problem. The rifle is a Crosman Nitro 177, typical bigbox rig with the included Centerpoint 4x. I can hit a one inch spinner at 25 yards pretty much 5 out of 6 times without too much difficulty off of the backyard table. I'm not doing anything complicated, just using it as intended for plinking off of a rest. Keeping 5 out of 6 shots inside 3/4 of an inch, with the sixth shot not too far out is pretty easy and likely the odd shot is my fault.I can shoot like this almost effortlessly and then...I can't hit a darn thing. I'll switch to the two inch spinner and I can't even hit that 2 out of 10 shots. Then I'll bring out a paper target and it will be shooting within an inch or so, at this point my confidence is out the door and I'm not shooting my best, but the group will be two inches high. I'll rezero it, everything will be fine, I am back in ''can't miss'' mode, and then the cycle repeats the next time I get the rifle out. 20 minutes of effortless good shooting followed by complete fail, followed by verifying lost zero, (although it could have shifted low, it seems to move vertically more than anything else) rezero and back to success.Initially, the scope was shifting. There were obvious rub marks on the scope's finish. I remounted the scope with liberal amounts of blue loctite and tightened the screws VERY tight. Since then, the scope does not appear to have shifted. The screws haven't loosened and the visual references I have seem to indicate that the scope has remained locked down for 500 or so shots.So, l'm thinking the scope is no good? I had a Gamo 1000 with iron sights and while the group size was bigger, it never wandered off it's point of impact. Frankly, now that I have this rifle, I hate the Gamo and it's stiff cocking and big TWANG. This nitro is much easier to shoot well with and much more accurate as a result, except for the zero issue I'm having.Is there a $50.00 or under scope that should solve this problem? Is there a way to verify the scope is the problem? Please, no $300.00 scope suggestions. I don't need features like 12x, ao, sidewheel, etc. 4x, better visual clarity than the slightly blurry cp I'm dealing with, and NOT LOOSING IT'S ZERO are the features I'm interested in.Thanks in advance.
These get good reviews and aren't bank breakers.
Quote from: scp52 on May 14, 2017, 09:56:10 AMThese get good reviews and aren't bank breakers. I believe that's the one that another member mentioned in a thread of mine from yesterday- I'm going to give it a try. The optics on so many scopes these days seems like I'm looking through a scratched distorted plastic lens. Just awful visual clarity.