For those new to airguns or shooting in general , do not sell yourself short by getting a nice rifle and then throwing a cheap scope on it . Here is why .
I have been working with a new to me Wildcat MK1 for the past two weekends , mounted up an old Cabellas 3-12 Alaskan Guide scope in some UTG high rings ( Which were almost too short ) till my 3-18 Aztec gets here . Should be good enough , right ? Finally got to the the point of logging an entire fill since I got the power where I wanted it . Everything was perfect but the accuracy . The rifle showed real potential but the overall groups were horrible . After some internal debate I yanked my 5.5-25 Aztec and No limit rings off the Crown and and put it on the wildcat and was blown away by the instant group reduction of three 3 shot sighted groups . So today I repeated the same test from yesterday .
Long story short , 47.5% reduction in avg group size @ 51yrds and 51% reduction at 76 simply from installing quality optics . Now comes the hard part , tuning the shooter , lol .
I have been working with a new to me Wildcat MK1 for the past two weekends , mounted up an old Cabellas 3-12 Alaskan Guide scope in some UTG high rings ( Which were almost too short ) till my 3-18 Aztec gets here . Should be good enough , right ? Finally got to the the point of logging an entire fill since I got the power where I wanted it . Everything was perfect but the accuracy . The rifle showed real potential but the overall groups were horrible . After some internal debate I yanked my 5.5-25 Aztec and No limit rings off the Crown and and put it on the wildcat and was blown away by the instant group reduction of three 3 shot sighted groups . So today I repeated the same test from yesterday .
Long story short , 47.5% reduction in avg group size @ 51yrds and 51% reduction at 76 simply from installing quality optics . Now comes the hard part , tuning the shooter , lol .