I’ve been playing with a .25 caliber Beeman model 1332 Raider for the last week. After a day of walking the woods hunting I noticed the POI had shifted. I tightened all the screws and re-zeroed. Two days later I noticed the the POI was off again. Not much but enough to cause a miss on a squirrel at thirty yards. Not happy I replaced the heavy scope with a lighter one and found some lower, heavy duty magnum springer rings in my box. I hunted hard for two days but never got an opportunity to shoot at game. This morning I had the opportunity to take some test shots out to 75 yards. The first pellet hit four inches to the left. I cranked on some azimuth to the scope and tried again. Dead center that time. Now this may be the result of indifferent zeroing the last time I adjusted the scope. I was zeroing at 20 yards with a correction for elevation to 35 yards (1/2 mil high at 20 yards) so I may have inadvertently biased the scope to the left and not realized it until I stretched the range out to 75 yards. I took my time and zeroed the gun at 75 yards with 20.06gr H&N FTT. I’m going to drag it around hunting for a couple more days but I suspect that the synthetic receiver is not securely enough attached to support a scope without shifting.
Are there any other Beeman Raider owners here? Has anyone else experienced wandering zero after scoping this gun?
Are there any other Beeman Raider owners here? Has anyone else experienced wandering zero after scoping this gun?