CoalCrackerAl
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The adaptors are wearing out on my Simons one. A new one is around 20.00. I found a more versatile kit for 10.00 more.
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Ordered a new bore sight kit.
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CoalCrackerAl
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Will do. My old one wasn't even showing close to already zeroed scopes.
dieselchief
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i still use the old bushnell one with a grid. came with three spuds in a black case.
Zebraranger
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They are very handy to have. I purchased this laser sight kit a couple of years ago. One of the best rifle accessories that I've purchased in a long time, I also use it on the shotgun.
lilguy
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Are there others that have proved reliable, or are they all mostly good to go?
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CoalCrackerAl
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My Simmons was good. If the inserts were still good. I would be still using it. Im not sure about others though.
Rebel Dave
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I have the same one as Zeebraranger, it works for me.
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Varminterror
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I have used several different brands for over 20 years. They’re just a button battery powered laser in a tube, with any of mandrels, expanding collets, or rubber bellows on their tail; proven tech which is not terribly complex to manufacture, pretty hard to mess up. I don’t like the rubber bellows type as much as some others, as they take more attention to install than most, but yes most laser boresighters are the ideal combination of “cheap and functional.”
Mine is nice in the basement when playing musical scopes. Then start out at fifty and move to 125 out back.
An ex brother in law bought an 06 from Dicks years ago and came our deer hunting during the week. Shot a deer and had to slowly follow it across the place in the woods. Shot in the hip. He finished it off.
I got home and heard the story.
"Did you sight it in? " no it was bore sighted "
We tested his bore sighted new rifle.
Elevation was good . Two and a half feet to the left. Oops
I like mine in the basement.
An ex brother in law bought an 06 from Dicks years ago and came our deer hunting during the week. Shot a deer and had to slowly follow it across the place in the woods. Shot in the hip. He finished it off.
I got home and heard the story.
"Did you sight it in? " no it was bore sighted "
We tested his bore sighted new rifle.
Elevation was good . Two and a half feet to the left. Oops
I like mine in the basement.
jmorris
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I have an old collimator and arbor style but I never thought it was that great.
A good rest makes it a one shot process for me. Looks like this.
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A good rest makes it a one shot process for me. Looks like this.
One shot zero
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Lefty38-55
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Never had one, never saw the use for one ... as I too do the "one shot zero".
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CoalCrackerAl
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It came. It's dead center windage. A little low testing it in the house at 15 yards.( Checked with an already zeroed rifle. ) It'll get you on paper at least.
In the house it can be scope hight higher than dead level for 50yds
The reason I use my bore sighter at home/in the garage/no ammo, never at the range.
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Chuck R.
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I have an old collimator and arbor style but I never thought it was that great.
A good rest makes it a one shot process for me. Looks like this.
One shot zero
I've got 2, and old collimator style Zero Point from Leupold and a newer Sitelite SL150 laser.
IF your muzzles crown is square the Leupold Zero Point works pretty well, IF not.. not so much. Where it does come in handy is recording zero's. I keep a record and take a picture with my camera:
If something happens on a hunt, or if I have to swap a scope it works very very well to confirm. I once had a scope returned from having a reticle swapped out, used the Zero Point to re-zero and just on a whim took a shot out back on my 385meter turkey swinger. Got a hit, that was just about centered.
I often use it to establish a "warm fuzzy" when swapping my scopes with QD mounts as it only takes seconds to confirm.
The SL150 works better IMHO for actual boresighting. It can also be used for recording zero's but the Zero Point is much easier to carry on a hunt. So far the SL150 always been on a 8.5x11 at 100yds. IF you follow the instructions and use their program it will give you your POA and POI, so you can get a lot closer to the actual zero.
jmorris
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I have used pistol red dots on rifles to have a point to confirm zeros with when optics changing, they work well for pointing in the dark too.
That idea came from this one I built a long time ago. It's a laser level, a couple bolts welded together on at the heads for windage/elevation adjustments, threaded into an aluminum V block to the barrel.
Line it up with the optic that is already sighted in or the iron sights, then align the new scope to the dot.
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