New air rifle scope zeroing

No matter what your grip is, you should be doing better than 6 " groups at 12 yards. Something is not quite right.

from look at PA reviews the scope was not liked much and even if the FPS is way over stated and heavy pellet might be needed to slow the rifle down

but I have no idea if you have a .177 or .22 or the pellet you are using

but this like many threads I see has only one outcome many guesses

more info on the gun ammo and maybe you, first airgun???

there are always some things that can cause a gun to shot poorly

the shooter, the ammo, the scope, the barrel crown and loose stock screws and there are others but they all have to be looked at and checked off the list

and of course how you hold that springer and how you go about holding that rifle the same over and over again and that answer is just practice 

in this case I would mark off the shooter as good but the rest has to looked at and other pellet testing could be the fine tuning you may need

but in any case it seems you are making progress and that is always the goal no matter what you are doing

take care

mike

You might want to also consider going with some better rings and a much better scope. The scopes that come bundled with the Benjamin/Crosman rifles are generally/usually of bottom-of-the-barrel quality. The last few rifles that I bought, I pretended that the "included" scope didn't even exist and I ordered a different scope before the rifle ever came home to me.

PT

are there any scopes that dont brake the bank to replace the one that comes with it? when it comes to scopes my only experience is with the cheap ones that come with the rifles lol

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If you ask 20 different people that question you might get 10+ different answers. As far as "budget" scopes, some people seem to have good luck with the UTG scopes, i.e. the UTG "Bugbuster" and others. Other sub-$100 options include quite a few offerings from Discovery Optics and others. They claim to be "magnum springer" rated for shock.

PT