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    Accuracy issues, Benjamin Trail NP

    I believe I RESOLVED my accuracy issue. It was not the scope. Chuckhunter was on the right track. It was not my pivot washers and I had no side to side movement. However, I did have up/down movement. This was caused by the barrel pivot bolt being loose and had not noticed it. I tightened...
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    Accuracy issues, Benjamin Trail NP

    
I've done a lot of experimentation on this and here is what I have found. If you clean your barrel throughly with a brush and solvent, then you are exactly correct. You will have to put some rounds through it to "season it' with lead before your groups get tight again. However, this is not...
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    Accuracy issues, Benjamin Trail NP

    
I will try winding the turret back and forth. That is probably a good idea to follow with any new scope. Thanks. 
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    Accuracy issues, Benjamin Trail NP

    
James, thanks for the response. I don't have a way to check pellet speed that I know of. However, there are two reasons that I don't think it is a leaking piston seal causing varying pellet speed. Check my logic and I have added more info that I didn't mention before. 1. On other air guns...
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    Accuracy issues, Benjamin Trail NP

    NEED HELP.... I'm new to this particular forum, but I was drawn by the amount of collective expertise in high powered air guns. I'm having terrible accuracy issues with my Benjamin Trail NP .22 all the sudden Here's the problem. The gun worked beautifully with the factory Centerpoint scope...