Laser boresights-how well do they work?

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Bob Dickson lll

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I change scopes with rifles alot and was wondering if I could save some ammo and alot of walking with a laser boresighter? I've never used any kind of boresighter sighting in my rifles. All comments will be appreciated.

BOB
 
Good Question, I've wondered the same thing. A while back I borrowed an older Laser Boresighter from a friend. It had a light unit that you slide into the chamber, as best as possible with a wire hanging out the back, and a smaller orifice tube in the muzzle. The larger light was reduced by the muzzle tube and you'd get a nice red dot out at a target. Good in theory, not great in practice. From what I see in the catalogs, newer versions must be much better.

However, This year I've sighted in three rifles and never really thought a bore sighter would help. Equipment wise you need to have a good gun stand or bench rest or set of sand bags, and a good spotting scope. I probably sighted in all three rifles with less than 15 shots, and the last one was only a 22LR so I played around with it a bit.

However, if your sighting in "ALOT" of rifles, a good boresighter of any kind is probably money well spent.
 
I finally bought a laser boresighter as I've been putting some weird scope mounts on some old rifles and wanted to have some idea how close I had them set up as some of the bases are ajustable. I mount an old weaver V-8 scope (without windage or elevation adjustments)in the rings and adjust the mounts to center the cross hairs to the laser dot, and lock them down. When I get the regular scope mounted it takes very little adjustment to sight in the rifle. It sure made my job alot easier.

AWS
 
I bought a laser boresighter a couple years ago & like it a lot with reservations. I find it much more accurate than the old stud type, but its no good in bright light, just like any other laser.
 
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