Evening everyone,
I ran into a problem with my Beeman AR2078A a few months ago. I use this rifle exclusively for shooting CMP matches, bought just for that reason. It’s been a good accurate rifle especially if I’m shooting well. I went to a match in October if I recall and had crappy day. I had shot a few 1” groups in practice but at the match it opened up to about 4”. I wrote it off to a bad day. The next month I didn’t practice much but it was worse. In addition to large groups I only barely got 50 shots instead of the usual 65 or so. Being CO2 powered I made sure the rifle stayed in a warm controlled environment. I didn’t shoot it again until today. I ran some cleaning patches through the barrel to make sure it was clean, loaded up 2 12mg CO2 cartridges and started shooting. Temperature was about 70. The group sizes got much better but everything was about an inch left and 2 high. It stayed consistent and delivered 70 rounds. Could cleaning the barrel have made this change? I can rule out temperature variations as weather was shirtsleeve warm which is normal when I shoot this rifle. Same pellets as always. Could something else be going on? The learning curve is still pretty steep for me but I’m getting it figured out. Thanks.
Rick H.
I ran into a problem with my Beeman AR2078A a few months ago. I use this rifle exclusively for shooting CMP matches, bought just for that reason. It’s been a good accurate rifle especially if I’m shooting well. I went to a match in October if I recall and had crappy day. I had shot a few 1” groups in practice but at the match it opened up to about 4”. I wrote it off to a bad day. The next month I didn’t practice much but it was worse. In addition to large groups I only barely got 50 shots instead of the usual 65 or so. Being CO2 powered I made sure the rifle stayed in a warm controlled environment. I didn’t shoot it again until today. I ran some cleaning patches through the barrel to make sure it was clean, loaded up 2 12mg CO2 cartridges and started shooting. Temperature was about 70. The group sizes got much better but everything was about an inch left and 2 high. It stayed consistent and delivered 70 rounds. Could cleaning the barrel have made this change? I can rule out temperature variations as weather was shirtsleeve warm which is normal when I shoot this rifle. Same pellets as always. Could something else be going on? The learning curve is still pretty steep for me but I’m getting it figured out. Thanks.
Rick H.