Stoeger x50 Accuracy? Updated.

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Hey all,

Just bought my first air rifle in a long time yesterday to deal with some pests at the new house. Bought a Stoeger x50 in .177 and have been trying to get it sighted in for about 20 yards or so. Here is the problem though, I can't group wirth a darn with it, and I've used 3 different heavy pellet types but cannot get it below about 2 inches consistently. Also, I'm having flyers whenever a group seems to appear, as in 3 in and inch and then the next 2 shots are 1.5 inches apart in a random direction. Tried varying my hold but not much luck...

Any advice or should I just sell it to someone who knows how to shoot a powerful springer and stick with the .22 and CB's?

Apparently my artillery hold was all wrong.... was holding the grip too hard and tucking it into my shoulder. Weel now that I am holding the gun loosely, I can hold half inch groups at about 20 yards, much, much, MUCH better results! Guess it will be sticking around a while longer:cool:. Thanks for all the help!
 
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No scope, just Irons... I check if it was me by shooting irons on another rifle(rimfire) and grouped just fine, all touching at 20 yards. I'm thinking it's more to do with the pellets. With the noise this thing generates, I may just step it down to a .22cal CO2 gun.
 
A quote from this blog:

Accuracy
With a good artillery hold, the X50 placed five pellets in a group measuring 1.029 inches at 25 yards shooting off a rest. That was with the Beeman Kodiak pellet I predicted would do well. Actually, I got several groups of Kodiaks under 1.25 inches at 25 yards, which is indicative of an air rifle that wants to shoot. Remember to hold the rifle as loosely as possible and never rest it directly on anything except your hand. This is a breakbarrel and has to be held right or accuracy will suffer.


http://airgun-academy.pyramydair.com/blog/2010/04/stoeger-x50-air-rifle/

And this video:

http://www.pyramydair.com/article/The_artillery_hold_June_2009/63
 
Thanks for the research, found the same article. I just tried again outside with several different holds and a couple pellets ranging from 8.5 grains to 10.5 grains. My groups were about 1.5 to 4 inches... If it's going to the this much of a pain to shoot it's going on the block, not worth my time.

Really too bad as all the reviews I have read have been great. Either I got a dud or I'm just being impatient, although I'd have expected it to at least group after a hundre or so pellets.
 
Springers are probably the hardest guns to shoot accurately...and only after lots of practice.
I can shoot 1" groups at 100m fairly consistently with my .22WMR
I feel I'm having a great day when I can get 1" groups out of my Slavia .177 at 25m.
It's just the nature of the beast.
 
bobtodrick said:
Springers are probably the hardest guns to shoot accurately...and only after lots of practice.
I can shoot 1" groups at 100m fairly consistently with my .22WMR
I feel I'm having a great day when I can get 1" groups out of my Slavia .177 at 25m.
It's just the nature of the beast.
Click to expand...

Well, I can say lesson learned in that case, probably gonna list it on the EE, but nor sure where, i guess the "all othe stuff" section. :bangHead:

Learn and live on eh.
 
If the bug to shoot a powerful airgun bites you again, and you feel like shelling out $500 dollars, look into a precharged pneumatic. No recoil, no damage to the scope or rings, a light trigger, and very accurate.
 
Problem solved, Just changed the grip to a looser hold and the groups shrunk from 1.5-3 inches down to .5 inches at 20 yards! Moral of the story is that these magnum airguns are Seriously sensitive to how you hold them and how consistently you can hold. This airgun just went from an F to an A+ in my books, look forward to clearing out the pests in the yard now.
 
Well that's pretty cool. I have some springers, but nothing magnum. All non-pal versions. My only high velocity air rifle is a pcp gun and its easy peasy to shoot.
 
I just bought an x 10 for work two months ago. A great gun and like you said hold it loose and its a tack driver. About 30 pigeons and counting can tell you what rws hollow point pellets around 850 fps do :). You started off right staying away from the alloy hi fps stuff. loud and un accurate.
 
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