I plan on swapping around some of my optics this weekend, and have been eyeing a boresight kit.....but before I go blow 60 bucks on one, I figgured I'd ask for experiences using them.

(its gonna be a fun setup.....red dot sight at 10 meters, under-muzzle laser 20. Split the difference for 15. )

........or I might blow the 60 bucks to go to the range instead, and just sight in the hard way.....maybee

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They work, i used one ( borrowed ) to sight in a laser and scope once.. With ammo being cheap it wasn't worth buying one.. These days it might well be worth it to save on wasted ammo.

60 bucks? Try 12 http://www.amazon.com/5-56x...ords=Cartridge+sight

They are great. But you will need to get a three shot group dialed in afterwards. The laser gets you close fast.

They work, it will get you on paper most of the time. I've had a chamber bore laser that the diode was not lined up perfectly but it still made it out the barrel and still got it on paper.

Well, after 5-hours of playing mix-and-match to get what I wanted (basically an update of my #1 barn/bat/pest rifle) and my "backup" set as close as I can (with the rails on it I am not going to get EXECTLY what I want without taking it to a machine shop to have some work done) I am DEFINATLEY getting one, a bore sight will save me HOURS of fracking around.

......and I learned something tonight. The Biathalon had the laser under the barrel on a ring mount. Scope (now a better scope) on top, thats a 2" differential at the muzzle between them (yeh, it was hell to set up 1st time around).....Just to see what would happen I loosed the screws and started rotating it, thinking I could get it within 10 degrees of vertical (close to the horizontal line on the scope) and was gonna leave it at the point it JUST started to show in the scope and work from there...

Well, it is now at 0 degrees, TDC, RIGHT on the centerline of the scope-----but doesnt obstruct the magnafied view in the slightest. I am thinking it is too close to the optics to be "picked up" in the scope--damned if I know why. I'll get a pic tomorrow, but there it is RIGHT in the line of sight and blocking nothing visually (while it completely obstructed the red dot sight)

I might just have to pick up another ring mount and put a tac light on this thing. Not like I dont have one after converting 2 others back to iron sights "just for fun shooting"

The entire reason for this exercise (and why I built this gun in its 1st incarnation in the 1st place 5 years ago) is rabbid bats have been found here AGAIN, and the new G/F has horses (yeah, go figgure how that worked out ) and with rabies around, with the way bats love barns........horses are seconds away from them and animal control is hours. or days.

When I put a laser sight on my Highpoint, I just let the gunsmith mount and sight it for me....$15.00