Just saying buddy I zero in rifles as a bit of a side gig come deer season and , I've seen zero points change a decent t bit from 25yd to 100yd . Most down here have some magic formula . High 50 , low 25 ect.. Sometimes it works perfectly sometimes "supposed" to be at 25 and it's high left at 100yd . Always confirm if and when possible

O an dif you can post a picture of you shooting set up.. pictures is with a thousand words

Yeah for sure. I won't take any shots past 50 yards til I can get to a range and get her really dialed in. What do you mean by shooting set up? Like the blind I shoot out of? Thanks

Good work! Nice practicing!

You'll be ok, stay calm and squeeze
Go shoot one

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thanks!

Ok, thank you!

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Shooting with a scope without a solid rest and without your eye dead center in the rear lens of the scope, you are wasting ammo.
Here's why. Its called parallax. All scopes without adjustable objective lens have the parallax-free point at a specific yardage distance.
At that specific distance from the target, your eye does not need to be perfectly centered in the scope to hit where you are aiming.
At 25 yards, you WILL need to have your eye perfectly centered or you will have loose groups such as what you are experiencing.
I recommend that you shoot 3 careful shots at 100 yards and if they are tight, adjust the scope and confirm with another 3 short group.
Many a new shooter which I have instructed suffered from not knowing about how parallax works. One of them actually hugged me once they found out what was killing their 25 yard groups.

Cowboy, you have to shoot how you hunt. Off a rest or standing offf hand, kneeling, prone it all matters. So shoot groups the way you hunt. And you may want to shoot 5 shot groups to id the fliers ( human errors).
First shot out of a clean barrel never hit the same as out of a fouled barrel.
Consistency improves with a properly broken in barrel.

You don't need sniper quality groups to hunt deer; but, know your range limitations. If you're shooting at 25 yds, at 100 yds those groups open up times 4. ( 1" at 25 yds equals 4" at 100 yds.) That is without the effects of adrenaline on the hunter. The vital area of a deer is often referred to a the size of a paper plate, about 9 inches.

Practice and muscle memory development is cheaper using a 22lr.

Sooooo many variables.

Osky