Bore Sighters?

[Sylvan-Forge]

For use with irons, red-dots and scopes

on:

AR-15 5.56 NATO
AK-47 7.62x39
Bolt Action 6.5 Grendel


What do you recommend?

 

[scrat]

i have this one and it works pretty good. i have used it in a few guns.

http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=332264&t=11082005

 

[Sylvan-Forge]

Thank you scrat

 

[Sleeping Dog]

Can you look through the barrel from the breech? (like AK47, AR15, most bolt-action, but not M1 Garand or M14)

If so, then the best bore sighter is your eye. Look through the bore at a target (I use a roof peak about 100 yards away), then look through the scope. Adjust until the bore and the cross-hairs are on target at the same time. That should get you on paper at 50 yds.

Cost: $0.

(I steady the rifle on my dining room table. Do NOT shoot at your neighbor's house to verify zero)

Regards.

 

[Franco2shoot]

Here's a tip... they don't necessarily go straight down the bore especially the cheapy ones that are meant for several different calibers. I didn't realize this and could never understand why the one I bought was always close but off by about 3 inches to the right @ 100 yards. Then just on a hunch I put a piece of laundry bag over the muzzle and lo and behold the dot was slightly to the right of center. Next time I used it I didn't lock it in the chamber but pushed it about half way in then with a thin dowel I adjusted it so that the dot was centered. I have a piece of reflective tape out in the back yard over the fence and in the woods. Its on a tree about 100 yards away. Great for testing prior to going to the range and now I'm always spot on.

KKKKFL

 

[mudslinging79]

guy at work uses one that chambers into the rifle... it has different sleves to hold the laser thingy. just imagine being able to chamber a laser pointer.

 

[Franco2shoot]

I would still use the laundry bag over the muzzle to check where the dot is.

KKKKFL

 

[Sylvan-Forge]

Thank you all very much for your input.

Can you give me your thoughts on the non-powered kind?
For example, the Simmons Boresighter, shown here.

 

[Zach S]

I use a cheap one from wal-mart. It gets me on paper.

I have also used the "street light" method, simular to Sleeping Dog's "neighbor's house method." It works as well but it is more combersome.