Laser boresighters Yea or nae

[bullseyes76]

Has any one used or had any luck with the new Leupold zero point boresighter . I have heard some good points and bad points . I myself have never really used to many boresighters . Just range time and a screwdriver .

 

[Omnivore]

If you're doing a lot of scope installations (say you're a gunsmith or work in a gun store) it would be a great time saver. Otherwise..eh. With a regular bolt rifle (and an AR-15, or any rifle that allows you to see straight down the bore) you can remove the bolt and sight right down the bore, then through the scope, without touching the rifle, and do basically the same thing. It just takes a little longer, but then you only do it once per new scope.

Rather than take my word for it, you can read this list of customer reviews at Cabela's"
http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0034465712346a.shtml#customer-product-reviews

 

[WNTFW]

I borrowed my dads laser boresighter to put a scope on a .22lr. I aligned it using the directions & checked at some further distances. I did it outside at night so I didn't deal with the sunlight.
I had no faith in it. When I shot the rifle I was amazed at how close it was. One of the caps didn't even have to come off. I thought I got lucky.
Removed a barrel from an AR & reinstalled. Used the boresighter to check the barrel indexing it appeared off, redid it looked on. Didn't have to touch the rear iron sight adjustment.
2 out of 2 times I got really impressive results on rifles I could not see down the bores. Both times saved ammo & back & forth travel to a range.
I used it to setup the Leupold windage screw adjustment type bases, but have not tested that rifle/scope combo yet.

It was the Cabelas 39.99 dollar one.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?type=pod&id=0012854

Ironically I told my dad not to buy it. I think I have used more than him though.

Hope this helps,
WNTFW

 

[alkazoo]

I bought the leupold zero point few months back in anticipation of mounting a couple scopes. Well, needless to say,that baby is probably going to be up on Ebay anyday now. It was a frustrating experience to say the least. Granted, im no Einstien but have mounted and zeroed a few scopes in my day and this gadget didnt live up to expectations. I followed thier not to clear instructions on the bench with both rifles, got out to the range and couldnt hit paper at 100 yards ( a REAL big piece of paper)..moved the targets up to 50 yards, still not on paper (i asked myself ***??) finally removed the bolt (like previous poster said) and by eyeballing it realized both guns were shooting close to 6 feet low, keep in mind , this is after i supposidly "zeroed" both guns using this contraption, following instructions or so i thought. So, after about 20 rounds of ammo, i got both guns on paper and zeroed accordingly. Kinda defeated the purpose of buying this boresighter. Im not sure where i was going wrong, the reviews on this unit have been pretty decent or pretty bad depending on whose you read, but one things for sure, im not using it again.

 

[jhansman]

I almost bought a BSA scope from SWFA because they were throwing in a free boresighting kit. Then I tried the method Omnivore mentioned, which worked like a charm. Then I asked myself, do I really want a BSA scope? The answer turned out "No" and I've used the 'bolt out" method ever since. Not sure what I'd do for a semi-auto.