You sit down at your shooting bench anticipating a relaxing session of plinking and when trying to open a near new tin of H&Ns the tin flies open and a couple of hundred pellets end up on the concrete. Then when your down on all fours picking up and dusting each individual pellet your pants pocket snags some unseen part of your bench and all of a sudden your rifle that was resting on its bag ends up chrashing to the concrete floor beside you. S**t, s**t, s**t.
The rifle concerned was my Benjamin Trail 177. I had fitted a Sportsmatch dampa mount to it with a new but relatively cheap Niko Stirling 3*9*42 air king scope last weak and it has been holding zero. This rifle has killed numerous scopes in the past, some lasting a couple of days and others lasting a few months.
First thing noticed was my poi was all over the place. Second thing noticed was a rattle that didn’t exist before and thirdly the trigger was somewhat different to the touch. And last but not least the scope didn’t look so new anymore. More bloody expletives were uttered on the way to the shed. She who must be obeyed was not impressed with my uttered words of passion.
Took the stock off and the bear trap leaver had come off that little swivelley thingy. No biggy reconnected the bear trap leaver to the thingy and put the stock back on, no more rattles and trigger feel back to normal. The poi was a different kettle of fish. No matter what I did I couldn’t adjust the elevation turret to bull, it would group like it did before it tried to fly but at least an inch higher or lower. I was just about consigned to having to aim lower at 25 metres or higher when in discust I started turning the turret quickly in both directions. Problem fixed it’s now shooting little fingernail sized groups at 25 metres like it did before. Only problem is for how long will this last.
The rifle concerned was my Benjamin Trail 177. I had fitted a Sportsmatch dampa mount to it with a new but relatively cheap Niko Stirling 3*9*42 air king scope last weak and it has been holding zero. This rifle has killed numerous scopes in the past, some lasting a couple of days and others lasting a few months.
First thing noticed was my poi was all over the place. Second thing noticed was a rattle that didn’t exist before and thirdly the trigger was somewhat different to the touch. And last but not least the scope didn’t look so new anymore. More bloody expletives were uttered on the way to the shed. She who must be obeyed was not impressed with my uttered words of passion.
Took the stock off and the bear trap leaver had come off that little swivelley thingy. No biggy reconnected the bear trap leaver to the thingy and put the stock back on, no more rattles and trigger feel back to normal. The poi was a different kettle of fish. No matter what I did I couldn’t adjust the elevation turret to bull, it would group like it did before it tried to fly but at least an inch higher or lower. I was just about consigned to having to aim lower at 25 metres or higher when in discust I started turning the turret quickly in both directions. Problem fixed it’s now shooting little fingernail sized groups at 25 metres like it did before. Only problem is for how long will this last.
