It's the cheap Gamo Scopes not the rifle so much
[QUOTE=ricklacella951@gmail.com;568584]First you can’t cite this weapon in like a rifle you have to account for kick the same way you sighti is the same way you need to shoot it always . The difference between a rifle and this pellet gun is the projectile leaves the barrel of a powdered weapon before the gun kicks . The difference between a rifle and this pellet gun is the projectile leaves the barrel of a powdered weapon before the gun kicks. A High-powered pellet rifle jumps before the pellets out of the barrel. How you hold it determines how much it’s going to high-powered pellet rifle jumps before the pellets out of the barrel. How you hold it determines how much is going to Jump. If your hold is at all different from shot to shot so will your AIM be. Dont use a vice. I had the same problem until I figured it out and now with the right pellet I can hit a quarter at 35 yards where is before there was just no telling where that pellet would end up. The right pellet it will make your groups tighter I don’t believe it’s the air gun. It sounds like you’re treating it like a rifle or lower power air gun.
Bore Citing won’t work either because basically your scopes going to account for the kick and the pellet movement. Its tricky but once you get it youll enjoy it immensely[/QUOTE]
It's the scope that falls apart after a few shots that's the problem. I got a new scope from another company that I will mount and try out. I'm not shooting the gamo very much any more. Some dumb ass purchased the property downrange from my shooting range and built three **** condos on the property. I can't shoot in my own yard anymore as I'm now surrounded by houses in all 4 directions. Development *****!
New Walther Scope mounted on Whisper Fusion Elite Air Rifle
Mounted this new Walther's Air Rifle Scope that I got at Gander Mountain. BTW Gander is no longer in Evansville now. But I got the scope a few years ago before they closed up here in Evansville. The Gamo Whisper Fusion Elite comes with a one piece scope mount (high type) and a shock absorbing base that mounts to the top of the rifle's using 11 mm dove tailed groves in the top of the receiver. There is a scope stop built into the rear end o fthe base mount. Two screws with 20 torx heads hold the scope stop part and three other screws hold the base onto the receiver. Then there are 3 screws (T15) that hold the one piece scope mount on top of the base. Then there are 8 screws that hold the scope in the scope rings. All screws were cleaned and dried using acetone. Then they are screwed into the devises using a Wheeler Fat Wrench using 25 ft/lbs of torque. The scope when mounted all the way back into the rings as far as it would go still gave me way too much eye relief. That can lead to a lot of parallax problems if your eye, Ocular Lens, reticle, objective lens and the target are not all lined up properly. Even if you have an AO adjustable scope you can still have some parallax problems if you cheek weld is not the same with each shot. And someone else said that if you don't hold an air rifle with a spring or IGT piston the same way each time the shots precision can go to H.
I was shooting this new Gamo Whisper Fusion Elite Inert Gas Technology Rifle and it was shooting ok.
Then I decided to try moving the base further back toward the rear to shorten the eye relief to that I could see the entire scope without having to move my head forward. Moving my head forward to elimite the shadow around the scope view was not comfortable. So I removed the base and the base shock absorber and replaced it after cleaning the screws and applying the blue locktite to the screw's threads. I torqued all the screws down and will wait for 24 hours to let the Permatex Threadlocker Blue dry completely.
This Walther scope is a cheap scope so I don't expect it to last long on any of these Gamo IGT air rifles. I will look into buying a better scope that won't fall apart like all the Gamo Air Rifle Scopes that came with Bone Collector and the Whisper Fusion Elite guns. I also tried on of the Gamo scopes that sold separately and has a light and laser mounted on the scope. That scope setup failed due to the excessive shock waves that travel though the system when you shoot these type of air rifles.
The local Gun store (Buck and Jakes) sells the HAWKE Air Rifle Scopes but they cost more than both my Gamo Air Rifles.
I have some gray squirrels that I need to get rid of. They live in a maple tree in my parents back yard and in the summer they eat all the blueberries in the only blueberry bush that we have. We had over 15 blueberry bushes planted in the back yard and all but one of them died. There were three or four gray squirrels that were eating the blueberries every day. Then there are about 3 or 4 Fox Squirrls that come into the yard to eat the blueberries. It's squirrel hunting season now. And I may bring the Havaheart Live Animal Trap here at my parents house to trap some squirrels for relocation.
I gave up on the Gamo Bone Collector Air Rifle for now. Gamo doesn't seem to sell the shock absorbing back stop base anymore as I can't find it on their web site anymore. The Gamo Whisper Fusion Elite has some mechanical sights ( iron sights) on the barrel and I need some higher scope rings to see over those iron sights.
I want to get ride of these squirrels but are they worth spending $450 for a good air rifle scope to solve my shooting accuracy and precision problems?
On a side know I finally picked up a new Walther's PPQ SC 9 mm handgun. I'm going to clean it up and take it to the range and check it out. I'm carrying a little Ruger LC9S Pro right now but it only has 7 rounds. The Walther PPQ SC Law Enforcement version came with three magazines. One is full sized with a capacity of 15 9 mm bullets and the other two magazines hold only 10 rounds each. There is a sleeve that came with the gun that helps with the grip/hand hold. The gun wil be my everyday carry pistol. I was using an Aliengear double single stack magazine holder but one of the buckets broke on it. So I just keep this in my vehicle. I have two extra 7 round magazines that I can carry in this Aliengear Mag holder. I have another Aliengear double magazine double stack for 9 mm that I used with my Walther PPQ M2 4" semiautomatic pistol. That guns is great but it's bigger and I wanted the Walther's PPQ SC which only has a 3" barrel and it's ligher weight. Being smaller and lighter helps with comfort when you carry a gun around all day. And if the gun is not comfortable you may not carry it. What good is that?
Giving Gamo's one more try.
Since I spend so much money on two of these Gamo Air Rifles I've decided to give them one more try. I remounted the scopes on both rifles. One is the Gamo Bone Collector with a Gamo Scope on it. It came that way from the store. The other is the Gamo Whispter Fusion Elite with a gamo riser, gamo one piece scope ring and a Walther scope.
I mounted both scopes and risers using blue Loctite on the threads of all the screws and then used a Wheeler Fatmat Torque Wrench to tighten the screws down to 25 ft/lbs of torque.
I took the rifles out and zeroed the scopes in at 20 yards. I shot about 10 times with each rifle and they were grouping pretty good. Now time will tell if the scope base and the scopes will stay in place on the rifle's receivers. The rifles have 11 mm dovetails on the receivers for mounting the scope bases or scope rings. The Bone Collector has two scope rings that are mounted directly to the dovetailed groves on the rifle. I added a gamo scope stop behind the back ring. I hope that he absorbed the shock wave of the IGT rifle and prevents the scope rings from moving backwards on the rifle's dovetailed mounting groves on the rifle's receiver.
All I want is to shoot some of the squirrels in the yard that eat my blueberries in the blueberries bush. They ate way too many of our blueberries this last summer at my parents house.