I put a redfield 3-9x on new to me ruger 96/22 and tested some CCI velocitors.
Got good groups of 40mm and 20mm at 45m and zeroed the gun as this will do my for shooting.
Took it to 80m just to see bullet drop and the group was now almost a foot to the right and down and about a foot wide. Down i expected but not the blow out to the right.
Decided to take it back to 65m. Group was only 2" to the right.
Brought it back into 45m to recheck and now the whole group was very tight but 1.5" to the left!.
There was a crosswind to the right but I was trying to time gusts. I was changing position, close groups (45m) were all fired from a caldwell rock rest. The further ranges were just shot over a sandbag on the utes bonnet.
Wind? scope issues? Out of aligntment to the barrel? Or this is normal get over it.