Best Air Rifle?

[MarkP]

I'm going to send back the Benjamin Trail NPXL 1100 if they will take it. The good people at Crosman sent me out a new scope and I bought some very nice steel scope rings to mount it with but my groups just kept getting bigger. I use these 3" peel and stick targets and at 18 yards I would occasionally get a flyer that didn't even hit the target. I checked the tightness of the pivot pin that connects the breech and barrel with the rest of the gun and found it loose. I gleefully tightened it and went out side to test it. It seemed better at first but I still get numerous flyers, so much so that I don't see counting on the gun when I really need a shot to count. I tried my Marlin 60 with CCI quiet ammunition (40 grain bullet @ 700 fps) and get much tighter groups without the weird flyers. OK but that doesn't have the challenging recoil that a springer does. I tried the Gamo Hunter 220. It's a springer and it has only iron sights and I get tighter patterns with it too. I really wanted this to work but if I get tighter groups from a 20 year old rifle with iron sights.....

I should really go with a PCP gun but they are so expensive plus they require a source of high pressure air. An RWS Model 54 might be a nice compromise though.