Bore sighter question

pyscodog

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If a bore sighter was a dead on accurate way to sight in a rifle, what yardage would it be sighted in at? 25,50,100??? Also, what is the best one on the market. Mine is a BSA and it pretty much lives up to BSA reputation. It kinda works.....some of the time.
 
They are meant ONLY to get you on paper. I look thru the bore centering a object 30 or so yards away. Move crosshairs accordingly. Bam hillbilly boresighter. Gets close enough for the intended purpose.
 
You're talking about a laser bore sight?

Where it was sighted in would depend on the distance you actually sight it in and what caliber.

I don't have any experience with them personally, so I can't say which is best. I can say that none will be dead on accurate.
 
Originally Posted By: Widow maker 223They are meant ONLY to get you on paper. I look thru the bore centering a object 30 or so yards away. Move crosshairs accordingly. Bam hillbilly boresighter. Gets close enough for the intended purpose.

Your method is pretty much what I use, but usually at 100yds, seems to work the best.I do use the BSA on occasion, but IF I'm real lucky that day, it might break paper at 100yds.
 
I almost bought a laser bore sight once. I don't know why, but I was shopping for some things, and had a rifle to sight in at the time, and I thought, "hey, I should get a laser bore sight."

I started looking at them and then I suddenly thought, "these things are $50-$80+ and looking through the bore has gotten me through sighting every rifle so far." So I didn't get one.

I might consider one if I was swapping scopes around a lot and sighting in rifles frequently. For the most part I don't see them being worth it for the few shots it might save every now and then when I sight in a rifle.

Plus, maybe I'm just paranoid, but clamping a metal rod into the muzzle doesn't strike my fancy.
 
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Ya unlike anything with those nasty 3 letters.
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I like doing it up close, its easier to center a small object and gets me closer. Usually with in 3-5" from center on a piece of paper.
 
I wouldn't waist your time on one. They are used just to get you on paper just like others have said. I have used several different ways to get a rifle on paper. Neighbors grid on windows, orange dot on telephone pole down the street, and even a target on the wall across the roof. The only guns that I have not been able to get bore sighted were semi auto rifles like a bar and revolvers. But when I have to sight them in I start at 10yds and work out from there. Most of the time 3 at 10, 3 at 50 and 3 at 100 and I am ready to start fine tuning.
 

I don't care who's make they are - they all work the same.

They get you on a big piece of paper at 100 yds - nothing more. I got two, (got one free), and I use them.
 
I have two that I've acquired over the years...One is a Bushnell that has a bore arbor and a screen that is positioned on top of the barrel with gradient lines for setting the optic...The other is a red dot laser type that fits in the end of the barrel...

For getting me on paper at 25 yards, reasonably close to 'correct' sight in, either is marginal...I do much better setting the rifle so that I can see the neighbor's basket ball goal that happens to be exactly (by range finder) at 100 yards from the table on my deck and looking at the small square above the net through the bore and then setting my optic on that...

That gets me on paper at 100 yards and pretty close to being within a six inch circle...
 
Sometimes it will save you a little ammo, but usually if you start close up and "bore sight", you get the same results. I have even seen the ones that look like a bullet you chamber in your rifle. Neat idea but probably don't work either. But then you still have the ones that shoot two boxs of ammo trying to sight in and leave the range with no bullets and a rifle that still won't hit the back board. LOL Gotta love those guys.
 
Originally Posted By: pyscodogI have even seen the ones that look like a bullet you chamber in your rifle. Neat idea but probably don't work either.

They don't.
Got a friend that bought one for his '06. Its as useless as [beeep] on a chicken. Makes for an expensive but cool looking laser pointer though.
 
Maybe he didn't know how to put the batteries in the thing?
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I have one and it works great as long as you put the batteries in it.

I bore sighted in my EOTECH EXPS3-4 last week and the red laser bullet type bore sighter worked great. It's the best bore sighter that I have. And I have about 4 of these that I used in the past.

The type that you stick into the end of the barrel wobble too much and I don't really like them very well. But the one that goes into the AR15's chamber and shine the laser down the barrel is much better.

After boresighting in my neighbors AR15 with two different rifle scopes I boresighted my new AR15 at home using a target about 25 yards away. When I drove to the rifle range and started to shoot my very first shot on the Sigh N C target at 100 yard was right in the center of the bulls eye. The laser bore sight device did it's job and got me not only on paper in the first shot but right in the bulls eye.

Of course I had to practice using the neighbors AR15 for a while to figure out how high or low the laser beam should be compared to the cross hairs on the scope. I think I put the cross hairs about 1.5 to 2" over the laser beam which I put on the bulls eye. You see the center of the Scope is about 1.5" above the bore of the rifle.

These bullet type laser bore slighter work if you know how to use them right. They are far from worthless.

And mine only cost about $30.
 


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