Re-sighting Rifle Scope

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I have a Stoeger X5 air rifle which came with the Stoeger scope.

I sighted it in when I first bought the rifle.

This past weekend I noticed I had to tweak the sighting a little bit on the windage.

As I'm new to scopes, do you have to re-sight them from time to time or is it just that the Stoeger scopes are crappy???????
 
Challenger2010 said:
I have a Stoeger X5 air rifle which came with the Stoeger scope.

I sighted it in when I first bought the rifle.

This past weekend I noticed I had to tweak the sighting a little bit on the windage.

As I'm new to scopes, do you have to re-sight them from time to time or is it just that the Stoeger scopes are crappy???????
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nope, we don't have to re-sight our scopes
 
Uisge said:
Was it windy?
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It was windy, but I didn't think it would make that much of a difference. If it was, it was enough to throw my shots off by a whole inch to the left. The wind was coming in from the right. I was shooting from 35-40 feet away and using a Stoeger Magnum-X pellet with a 11.87 grain or something like that.
 
Check that the mounts are secure, usually scopes included in packages are not the best quality and may have a problem staying adjusted.
 
The wind will affect,even at 10 yds.
If you changed pellet types your point of impact will change,not just up and down as you would think.
If you hold the rifle in a different manner from when you sighted in, the point of impact will change.
As others have said,check your mounts,also check your screws holding the spring chamber/ barrel unit in the stock.
Good luck!
 
Mine did the same thing until I noticed the screws holding the barreled-action to the stock were loose, again. I used some blue Loctite, re-adjusted the scope, and now all is fine. I eventually threw the cheap CenterPoint scope out in the trash and mounted a much much nicer Nikko Stirling scope into a quality one-piece scope mount and have never looked back.
 
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