Gammo Bone Collector Rifle

I sure hope I’m posting this in the right category. I joined this site to ask a particular question. I have owned firearms my entire life and have hand loaded for all my rifles for the past 45 years. I do know how to shoot. I have never owned a pellet gun and know several folks that do and after all these years decided to buy one to play around with. A friend of mine has a couple of Gammo pellet rifles and brags about their accuracy and killing power all the time. So I bought this Bone Collector pellet rifle at a Walmart store close to where I live. I put it together and took it out to shoot. After the first few shots I noticed something that looked like a piece of string floating around inside the scope. After few more shots it disappeared. Then it reappeared shortly after that. So I gave up and took it back home. Thinking the scope was a really cheap one to begin with I decided not to mess around with it and put a brand new Sightron 3X9 mil dot scope on it and went out again. To make a long story short this thing will not shoot a group less than about 3 to 4 inches at 10 yards (30 feet). At 20 yards (60 feet) the group is more like 5 to 6 inches. It’s impossible to even try to sight this thing in as it sprays pellets all over the place. I wrote an e-mail to Gammo with pictures of the groups and they wrote back telling me that it could be my scope (I know that’s not the problem), and that I need to find a pellet that my gun likes. Now that kind of made sense to me because of my experience hand loading rifle and pistol cartridges for years. No two guns are the same. They are like fingerprints and you have to work up a load for every gun individually until you find the one that satisfies you. I’ve shot three different pellets out of this gun with the same result. I then went to Gammo’s website to try some different pellets yet, as the stores where I live only have two or three types of Gammo pellets. I settled on one that had several positive reviews and decided to try them. The one I decided to try was called the “Tomahwak.” When I got to the part of the site where you order things I found out that the shipping charge for these pellets, which cost $12.95 was going to be $17.18. More than the price of the pellets so I didn’t order them. I wrote Gammo and complained about the shipping charges and they said they can only ship through U.P.S. and they don’t know why U.P.S. charges so much money to ship. So I forgot the whole thing. I don’t know if trying other pellets would do any good anyhow. I would sure be interested in hearing some opinions from folks here. Maybe I should have spent more money and got a better quality gun, I don’t know. I paid $188.00 for this one and expected it to shoot a little bit better than it does, but maybe I was expecting too much. Let me know what your thoughts are.

Thanks very much

Jim