My Grandson got a Rossi youth 243 single shot and it was supposed to be bore sighted. We tried sighting in at 100 yards and it didn't hit on the target. We moved in to 25 yards and it was off almost 1 foot so that would of made it to be off around 4 ft. at 100 yds. We zeroed in and moved back to 100 yds and it came close to the bullseye and then it started shooting wild. One shell miss fired and we finally just gave up. I will check all the bolts on the mounts and scope rings again and possibly replace the scope so hope that is our problem. We were using a nice gun vise so I know it was the gun.
The gun looks nice and it is a perfect fit for my 10 yr old grandson so hope it will work out. I will post the results.
Checked the gun out at home and the base mount that screws on to the gun barrel has 4 screws to keep it on tight. Two of the screws were loose and 1 was cross threaded and 1 was on tight. What makes it so bad is that the screws are made of some soft metal and will cause them to cross thread before the scope mount can tighten properly. The gun is at the gunsmith now to retap and he said he will use steel screws. The gunsmith also said that quite a few rossi guns have some sort of problem. He said to buy a mosberg or Marlin if we are shopping for a lower priced gun. He also said to not be surprised if we can only get a 2.5" group at 100 yards.
