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I have a 1980 Bushnell bore sighter that works like a charm. I rescoped my T3x with a S&B classic and I had it dialed in 2" high at 100 in 4 shots.
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I have the Wheeler green laser boresiter. It was free. It’s works very well, good enough that I’d consider purchasing one if something happened to my current one.
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Best bore sighter? Your eyeball.
Pull the bolt, use your bore as the “ghost ring” to attain the target. Keep the rifle there and move the crosshairs to mirror the alignment.
This should get you on 8.5x11” paper 99% of the time. From there, a scope with dependable turrets makes zeroing a cakewalk. By a mile! Set up at 50 yds. Put a quarter sized dot on the page and if you do it right. 2 shots should do it. fist shot should be close. then the second to track to the first shot.
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Pieces of worthless schit. Hint.
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Your eye is the best bore sighter. Line up target through the bore and adjust scope.
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I have a 1980 Bushnell bore sighter that works like a charm. I rescoped my T3x with a S&B classic and I had it dialed in 2" high at 100 in 4 shots. I also have an old 80's era Bushnell that I still use, I am happy with it and am not too concerned by others turning their nose up at something that works.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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Plus 1 on the Bushnell . My one from early 80's just works.
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Plus 1 on the Bushnell . My one from early 80's just works. I'll go along with the guys for the Bushnell, I've had mine since the early 90's and always gets me on paper on the first shot. I additionally bought the shotgun spud which is no longer available. Brought it up to Qtips cousins house last deer season, he had some laser setup he said was a pain in the azz to use. I boresighted his Remington 750 Jam o Matic at his kitchen table and we went down the street to the range at Hartwick Rod & Gun Club. First shot on the paper, second shot bullseye, he was convinced too.
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I have a Bushnell Collimator. It works very well.
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Love my magnetic Leupold. Most of the time can have one sighted in within 5 shots, and thats with shooting a group @ 100.
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It cracks me up that Jeremy Shockey tries to pedal those POF bore sighters on every episode !!!!!!! [/quote] Curious what a former NFL tight end has anything to do with what JIM SHOCKEY uses?
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I use the site lite and it gets me on paper at 100 yards 99%f the time
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I've had success most of the time getting close enough to shoot at 100 yards but not always.
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How do ya set up the zero point. I have an original model and sometimes it works other times not so good.
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Set up a zero point? Clamp the rifle in a rifle rest. Wipe off the muzzle so there is no dust. Wipe off the zero point magnet, so there is no dust. Place the zero point on the muzzle so the output lens is at the same height as the center of the riflescope. Keep practicing until you always get the same reading.
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Thanks thats how I've been doing it. I put a piece of tape across the magnet for my 1.5" sight height.
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Andrews1958: I have been mounting scopes on Rifles for more than 5 decades now and the boresighters I have used have been well worth the money. I have 5 (five) of them now - 3 Bushnells and 2 Leupolds. I wouldn't be without them - and when I see them at bargain prices on the used market I pick them up! One of my Bushnells has the rare to find 17 caliber stud for boresighting those small bores. I get taxed with mounting many scopes a year amongst my friends and their friends (who know what a good job I do of aligning the rings and then lapping the rings then properly mounting and bore sighting their scopes) - I sell a lot of scopes to my friends, mostly as favors and not for profit - I just enjoy doing this type thing. Using a boresighter keeps my friends happy and my reputation intact because I do not sight in but about half of the rigs I mount scopes on. And unlike some armchair experts (no offense small twig!) I mount and boresight scopes on all manner of Rifles and a few pistols! These include lever action Rifles, pump action Rifles, semi-auto Rifles and break open single shot Rifles that do not allow for "sighting down the bore"! I have not seen the Wheeler boresighter in use so have no opinion there. What does surprise me though is how well the magnetic end of the barrel attaching Leupold boresighters work. Anyway I would not be with out them they are handy and quick to use and can be done (boresighting) in the same cradle as the Rifle is in for ring alignment and scope afixing - no need to take the Rifle/scope to a place where you can align the bore (on bolt action Rifles) with a distant object and then fiddle farting around with a Rifle that moves from that alignment each time the adjustments are touched - yeah been there done that, lesson learned!. Over the years the boresighters have also helped me "trouble-shoot" problems of scopes "running out of adjustment", "sticking" etc. Go with a good quality boresighter - money well invested! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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I had a Bushnell for years. Only remember once that it didn't have me on paper at 100 yards. Sighting through the bore corrected that. My two favorite uses for it were;
1, when replacing an already sighted in scope. The Bushnell could usually have you within an inch or so on the first shot.
2, using it to get windage adjustable mounts set to get your scope as near the middle of its adjustment as possible.
I wouldn't mind another collimator style but the only one I'm aware of currently made is the BSA and I've never put faith in anything they make. I have never tried the laser style.
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