Joe, I’m laughing not atcha but with ya on your honest and accurate(unlike rifle) assessment of that rifle. Dude, I have that exact same shit shooting rifle but just kept it cuz I used my rewards money getting it and nice supply of ammo for free after buying a gun safe at TSC.I've been a pump up $35 pellet rifle guy since childhood. I finally decided to move up and buy a big boy pellet rifle. I have what appears to be a constant need to manage the squirrel and raccoon population around the house. I went and Purchased a Gamo Wildcat Whisper yesterday that won't see two sunrises at my house. Complete junk. Like any of them you might as well not take the scope out of the box but I gave it a shot. Adjustments were funky and hopped all over, no consistency, get the elevation right change windage one click and elevation would jump 2-3 inches. Junk. So I put a $250 rimfire scope on it that I had in the safe.
The rifle itself. Also junk. I sent 4 different brands of pellets through it and the best it could achieve wpuld be 6-8 inch MOA. Jumped all over the place. This was the best group it could manage at 30 yards. I can shoot better than that with a compound bow.What good is a pellet rifle that only has a 50/50 chance of actually hitting a squirrel at 30 yards.
So what brand rifles have you guys found good accuracy out of?
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I still managed killing many squirrels mostly with head shots or neck/shoulder area. The most lethal range for me is 5ft to 22 yards. It seemed 18 was almost always money.
Im glad it’s not just me. I tried everything like you to get “any”/some consistency with that thing but it was all over the place just like you. Anywho, it kept the dang thing but it’s served me well enough to stack em up in the freezer and get the numbers down to a much more tolerated amount.
Killed two this morning from my spare bathroom window at 4 yards and 13 yards.
Two females for a change! Almost always males. I put two other males in freezer last week. Haha
