Tonight I thought I would try stretching out my wildcat 25 because there was absolutely no wind at all,so I shot 3 shots at my 1" bullseye at 50 yrd and all three were1/4" low one hole. So then I moved onto 100 yard and got a group 5 inch to the right and 6 mill dot low so I made changes on the scope and got on target. I then went back to the 50yrd target and hitting way left, so I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it pellet wobble? Chronied the gun and got 904-912
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Are you sure there was no breeze at all in that 100yards? Perhaps for the 100yards group the rifle was canted. It seems to me there was some error at the 100yards target, when you adjusted the scope to compensate you induced the opposite error into your following 50yard group.
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Absolutely no wind probably the calmest day here in months. I recharged the gun went out to the bench shot off sandbags in the front stock for end and duplicated it again. Could stock contact to the bench change the groups like that? It's possible when I raised the barrel for the 100 yrd target the pistol grip contacted the bench, but absolutely not on the 50 yrd target.
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Sure sounds like you are dealing with cant. Perhaps you scope is canted, perhaps you are holding it that way, or, something in the rifle rail or your mounts.
John
John
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I had the exact same issue and initially got the same responses as you are, that it was "cant error". To try to figure it out I actually ended up hanging targets from trees at varying distances and used the strings they were hanging from as plum bobs to line up with my vertical reticle so that I knew I was eliminating cant as a possibility and still had the same issue. I never did end up solving the issue but after much reading and searching and advice from the experienced folks here, I came to the conclusion that my scope rail was not properly lined up with the bore of the barrel. They were "cris crossed" so to speak. There were several that told me I needed to have my barrel indexed but I don't have the technical expertise to even begin to know where to start with that. I ended up selling the gun to a person who was fully aware of the issue. The closest I ever got to fixing it was shimming the scope rings at the rail so that the issue was less exaggerated. In my instance, I had to shim the front of the scope to the right so that it's point of impact was closer to the right and then also shimmed the rear mount further to the left so as to push the POI more to the right again.
Best of luck figuring it out and by all means if you ever do, please let me know how. It's an issue that I never solved and has been nagging me ever since.
Kind regards,
Cliff
Best of luck figuring it out and by all means if you ever do, please let me know how. It's an issue that I never solved and has been nagging me ever since.
Kind regards,
Cliff
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