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Beeman air rifle ?
Winston Bode
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Ok so I bought this Beeman air rifle and it came with a .22 barrel and a .177 barrel. I cannot get this thing sighted in with either barrel, scope or iron sights. Is there something wrong with the rifle or am I making some rookie mistake? I'm not that familiar with air rifles above a daisy red rider. I'm stumped. I'd like to squirrel hunt with it this year as its now legal to do so in Texas, but I can't get it to hit with any kind of consistency. Any suggestions?
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It's a whole new learning curve to be able to shoot one really good..
Inspect your pellets carefully. The pure lead skirts are easily damaged when loose in a can.
+1 for some break in before top performance. You might consider some polishing with JB's Bore paste to hurry things along.
Are you starting with the pellets they recommend for you rifle?
rifle. The reviews i saw on your model were not impressive. I can't
remember the exact problems, but caused me to stay away from it.
The second problem is the pellets, standard run of the mill pellets
from the hardware store will never be accurate.
These are the one's i use.
RWS Meisterkuglen
RWS Super-H-Point and Superdome
H & N Sport Baracuda Magnum
Beeman Pellets, Kodiak, Silver Arrow & Crow Magnum
Top of the line pellets are a key to accuracy, and may solve your
accuracy problems.
I have gone down that road of buying $100 air rifles with the bargain
scopes, like Remington, Winchester, Hammerelli, and they're all made
in China with sloppy triggers and clunky wood stocks. The bargains
were all a disappointment. I sold them off at my garage sales.
My favorite air rifle of all time was the German made Feinwerkbau 124
deluxe. Sadly i sold it years ago and they come up for auction for
here....4 - 6 hundred dollars.
I would try new pellets first, google those names to find a source.
good luck, Thor
Don't know about the bigger tree squirrels, if that's what you are after, but these littler ground squirrles at 75-ft, they are goners with any of 1/2 dozen different types of pellets. And have a $75 Crossman American Classic pistol, (also Chinese?) for occasional coup-de-grace shot. Very happy how accurate both are. Go figure?
Yeah, the middle/higher-end air gun is a whole different world, as example... is your Beeman a side or under cocker, as barrel cockers are inherently less acurate, are you using the "Artillery Hold", does it shoot over speed of sound, blah blah blah. This is just a wee example of the stuff obsessively yaked about on air rifle forums.
Hey, I just wanted to rid the squirrels, not shoot Olympics! And they make it sound like it's supposed to be the difference between a bench-rest shooter and a tin-can kerplunker, (me), to get an expensive air gun to shoot straight. Which it seems to be. Most disapointing in the time and moolah wasted on the more expensive rifle. It's the one going in the garage sale.
Wish had some sound advice, WinstonB, but other than addressing and experimenting with others advice here or on an air gun forum, maybe you got a lemon and return it to Beeman?
45er
Ok so I bought this Beeman air rifle and it came with a .22 barrel and a .177 barrel. I cannot get this thing sighted in with either barrel, scope or iron sights. Is there something wrong with the rifle or am I making some rookie mistake? I'm not that familiar with air rifles above a daisy red rider. I'm stumped. I'd like to squirrel hunt with it this year as its now legal to do so in Texas, but I can't get it to hit with any kind of consistency. Any suggestions?
What exactly is the problem?
Are you unable to get the sights to align with your group, or are you unable to get any kind of group worth aligning to? Its absolutely possible you have a bad individual gun that makes accuracy impossible.
You really don't need to clean air guns much or even at all (relatively low velocities, minimal bore/pellet contact, and lack of powder means no fouling) BUT its entirely possible you have a dirty bore out of the box, and ONE initial cleaning (CAREFUL!) might not be a bad ideal. Also check the muzzle crowns to make sure they are OK.
Yes, type of pellet matters, and match pellets are the best, though even relatively low end pellets should still give you SOME kind of grouping (if not necessarily a super-small match quality one).
How you SEAT the pellet matters. You have to have it pushed all the way into the barrel and to a consistent depth. Match shooters will using a seating tool, though I think just being aware of this and trying to be consistent with your fingers will probably get you 80% of the way there.
Most air rifle triggers suck. There are things you can do to improve them (a little), but your most realistic option is probably to "deal with it" or buy a match quality rifle (which will come from Germany and run several times the cost of the one you got). Try to work on a consistent trigger pull with what you have.
Scope? If you aren't using a dedicated airgun scope, you need to get one. Back-and-forth double recoil snap of a spring piston airgun quickly ruins many "ordinary" scopes not built to handle this.
My suggestion is to try it with open sights, and if you cannot get it to group with them, then there is something wrong with the gun...otherwise get an air gun scope.
If you go to www.pyramidair.com, they can help you.
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