Howdy all:
I have two Drifter carbines and set one aside in a rifle case about eight or nine months back. It was moved to a closet and unfortunately, I pretty much forgot all about it until today, when my wife (who'd moved it to the closet and basement) mentioned it. She brought it back upstairs for me and I tried a few shots with it. Unfortunately, I was totally amazed that I could hardly figure out where my first round hit! This usually sweet little carbine was dead-on accurate when I put it in the case last year; what in the world happened? It's still giving me what seems to be the same resistance when I pump it up, so I have no idea. Since it had been awhile, I added a drop or two of Pellgunoil and tried again, finally determining my point of impact to be fine windage-wise, but now hitting a good two and a half to three inches low at thirty feet! I've put maybe twenty to thirty rounds through it since adding the oil, but it hasn't made any obvious difference so far. I'm more mechanically DEclined than inclined, so this is completely beyond me. Y'all have any ideas on what has maybe gone wrong, and what could be done, if anything, to bring it back to a state of being the pretty nice and accurate little pumper it used to be? I'm stumped.
Hmmm... I just noticed that my windage occasionally was off a smidge while trying to work the added oil back into the piston and found I could move the barrel a tiny bit side to side (it's definitely the barrel and not the front sight apparatus), probably no more than a millimeter, if that, but it's noticeable. Maybe it was dropped or jounced around while I thought it was safely in storage... Could that have anything to do with this new inaccuracy (and can I do anything about it)?
I have two Drifter carbines and set one aside in a rifle case about eight or nine months back. It was moved to a closet and unfortunately, I pretty much forgot all about it until today, when my wife (who'd moved it to the closet and basement) mentioned it. She brought it back upstairs for me and I tried a few shots with it. Unfortunately, I was totally amazed that I could hardly figure out where my first round hit! This usually sweet little carbine was dead-on accurate when I put it in the case last year; what in the world happened? It's still giving me what seems to be the same resistance when I pump it up, so I have no idea. Since it had been awhile, I added a drop or two of Pellgunoil and tried again, finally determining my point of impact to be fine windage-wise, but now hitting a good two and a half to three inches low at thirty feet! I've put maybe twenty to thirty rounds through it since adding the oil, but it hasn't made any obvious difference so far. I'm more mechanically DEclined than inclined, so this is completely beyond me. Y'all have any ideas on what has maybe gone wrong, and what could be done, if anything, to bring it back to a state of being the pretty nice and accurate little pumper it used to be? I'm stumped.
Hmmm... I just noticed that my windage occasionally was off a smidge while trying to work the added oil back into the piston and found I could move the barrel a tiny bit side to side (it's definitely the barrel and not the front sight apparatus), probably no more than a millimeter, if that, but it's noticeable. Maybe it was dropped or jounced around while I thought it was safely in storage... Could that have anything to do with this new inaccuracy (and can I do anything about it)?
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