02-19-2017, 11:55 AM
I just came in from a session with the NPXL. Granted that if it is my aim I won't know it because I am aiming at the bullseye as best I can with each shot but what gets me is that my groups are not just a uniform spray like from a shotgun. I get several that seem to group OK for a while but it never lasts. I got one pattern that spread out from left to right but up and down was pretty good. I got a later group where they were pretty good left and right but spread out vertically. On one occasion my first shot just clipped the 3" target at the 5:00 position. The next shot either missed entirely or hit very close to the first. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th were clustered around the bullseye. That sort of thing. I am balancing the rifle on a sock filled with airsoft pellets right under the center of gravity so that I can pretty much take my hands off and it will stay on target. I have to touch the gun to pull the trigger but if I was yanking the gun off target I would not be getting these periodic bouts of uniformity. I swear sometimes I get a couple of shots way on one side of the target then the next 2 or 3 will be on the other side of the target.
One of the things I liked about this gun was the weaver rail. I never could keep the scope rings from sliding in the dovetail grooves on the old Gamo until I glued them in. The scope started slipping in the rings when I did that. I gave up on the scope for the Gamo. With the NPXL the rings could not slip on the weaver rail of course but the scope slipped in the rings til I glued it in. I still got lousy groups. That's when I sent the rifle back thinking that it must be a bad fit where the barrel is hinged to the rest of the action. They didn't fix it, they just gave me another. I bought a one-piece Nikon M-223 scope mount which I like except that I can't say it has allowed me to hit the target. The shifting groups remain the same.
One of the things I liked about this gun was the weaver rail. I never could keep the scope rings from sliding in the dovetail grooves on the old Gamo until I glued them in. The scope started slipping in the rings when I did that. I gave up on the scope for the Gamo. With the NPXL the rings could not slip on the weaver rail of course but the scope slipped in the rings til I glued it in. I still got lousy groups. That's when I sent the rifle back thinking that it must be a bad fit where the barrel is hinged to the rest of the action. They didn't fix it, they just gave me another. I bought a one-piece Nikon M-223 scope mount which I like except that I can't say it has allowed me to hit the target. The shifting groups remain the same.