huffelfingre wrote:Upon further investigation I found the barrel band was pushing the barrel way south !!!!!!!!!!!! so I loosened up the 2 Hex screws and TWANG my barrel centered its self . But then I noticed that the band has about 80 thousands clearance between the band and the barrel.
Huffelfingre,
Hang in there, can you post some pictures to show us what things are looking like?
You are talking about the outside shroud that the barrel free floats in right?
When you shoot at paper how far are you shooting? Crosman is closed now but I have a few suggestions of things you could try:
First remove the clip and inspect the chamber end of the barrel and verify that it has a 177 cal barrel in it. Hold a 177 cal pellet up to it to check, just in case they some how switched it by mistake? It is weird that they would send you a .22 clip back with the gun…
Next I’d shake the (unloaded gun) around with my ear near the shroud and listen for any pellet fragments rattling around in the shroud. If you don’t hear anything then more than likely the shroud is not clipping the pellets which would cause them to go all over the place.
I’d then loosen and remount the scope, checking to ensure that your bases don’t have any sort of scope stop pin protruding out the bottom of the base, this could cause the scope to mount at a slight cant.
Then Go back to 10 yards and see where it hits on the paper, shoot a 5 shot group at 10 yards first before you even try to adjust the scope. If the gun is not constant at 10 yards then don’t even try adjusting the scope.
If it groups 5 shots ok, then try to adjust the scope to about 1 inch low at 10 yards. Then move to 20 and zero it.
I hope this helps, I don’t have a marauder in front of me yet to lend any more assistance, but hopefully someone who does will chime in.
Later when this forum gets established with more people who actually have the Marauders, then more people will offer advice.
Thanks
Roger (Site Admin)