How to use a laser bore sight

Laser Boresighter

These devices emit a laser, which should be pointed at a target about 25 yards down range (always in a safe direction). Like the collimator, look through the optic and simply turn the windage and elevation turrets so the optic’s reticle aligns with the laser.

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First, they are a far more precise method than using your eye. While visually bore sighting a firearm may get you on paper at 100 yards, laser bore sighting will put you much closer to center and will require less ammo in the long run when zeroing the rifle.

Modern laser bore sights make the job of sighting in a rifle or handgun with a scope or open sights very easy. The laser bore sight fits into the chamber of the firearm. Once the laser is turned on, the firearm is aimed at the target and the scope or sights are aligned to aim at the laser dot on the target.

There you have it: advice from the pros. Bore-sight at 25 yards and impact 1-inch low when shooting at 25 yards for most deer rifles.

Cabela’s will mount and bore site for free while TJ’s will mount and collimate my scope for $50.00 (I don’t even know what collimate means).

Sighting in a gun without firing the weapon is a relatively simple procedure. By using a boresighter (a device that indicates the rifle’s projected point of impact), or by visually determining the point of impact by looking through the barrel at a predetermined spot, your rifle can be sighted in within minutes.

You’ll obviously need your gun and your red dot already mounted on it, but you’ll also need a bore sight. … Any further than that and there’s no way you’ll be able to see the laser through just a red dot. If you are sighting in a scope with magnification it would be a different story.

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