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Rumor has it Walmart guarantees rifle/scope combos to be bore sighted and dead on at 100yds… can’t beat that

Can't beat it with a stick

What if they aren’t? What do they do, give you a free tasco?

They don't know much.... bore sighting gets you close usually, but seldom "dead on", whatever they mean by that. Is that MOA, or minute of 8 1/2 x 11?

No walmarts in my area sell guns anymore. It's an easy promise to keep if you aren't selling them.

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Gotta wonder how many broken legs and gut shots will come of this nonsense.

Buying a hunting rifle anywhere and taking it afield without first spending some range time with it seems irresponsible and unsportsmanlike to me.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.... Additionally all ring screws and base screws are guaranteed to be tightened to 10 in/lbs and swimming in factory oil to prevent rust.

Yup, but you know it will happen, a lot.

When I worked briefly behind a gun counter, I’d mount a scope, and boresight, and almost invariably before I could get my warning about checking on paper out of my mouth, the customer would say something like, “This is ready to go, right?”

My son, who worked at it a lot longer reported the same thing. People either didn’t have a place to shoot, didn’t want to “waste” the money on ammo, or just wanted a hug…. I’ve helped some folks out over the years to get their rifles dialed in, and it’s amazing how little they know, but still plan on making meat.

So many people just don't have a clue. I knew a guy who killed one of the nicest bucks I've ever seen in my life with a 30-30 rifle after he had the gun shop put a scope on it. They never bore sighted the rifle and he never fired it until the day he shot the buck. I think he shot it at probably 50 yards, but still, he had no idea where the bullet would hit.

Seriously you think a Walmart employee is going to bore sight a scope and it will be “dead on.” That’s beyond laughable.

I’m sure they’re still bore sighted after shipping and bouncing around thousands of miles in trucks. Those cheap azz Chinese $40 scopes are tough as nails I tell ya!

Same experience as above. I worked in a big gun store and it blew my mind how many people thought "bore sighting" meant ready to go hunting.
Sometimes they'd bring a rifle back and complain that it wasn't sighted in right.

That reminds me of my late uncle. When Tennessee added a muzzleloader season, my uncle bought a TC Hawken and immediately had it drilled and tapped for a scope. I asked him how it shot and he said he didn't know. The gunsmith boresighted it for him and he was going to kill a deer with the first shot. I explained the boresighting concept to him and he got a funny look on his face. I never did ask him if he actually sighted it in. BTW, he was the worst shot in the family. He probably thought boresighting was better than he could do. Ironically his son is the best shot in my generation.

I can still recall setting up a scoped rifle at the bench on a pedestal front rest and rear bag then removing the bolt.

After a few repeats of squatting behind the bench and then tweaking the pedestal screws the neighboring shooter just couldn't take it anymore and had to ask me what the hell I was doing.

"I'm boresighting". "Huh?". "I'm getting the crosshair aligned with the bore". "Huh, that's not how they did it at the store".

"Nope. No spud needed". "What's a spud?".

That’s why I tried to mansplain it to ‘em before they left.

A range buddy told me he’s had to help out a number of poor souls using laser units, because they aren’t doing the job. Might be price related; I bought some 20ga laser units, came as a pair. One was pretty straight, but the other one was so cockeyed I could spin it in the chamber and watch it scribe a circle on the target- useless.

The Wheeler (IIRC) magnetic unit I bought is okay, but no better than what I do by eye, so it gets saved for ones I can’t boresight.

I’ve had pretty good luck with good quality guns and mounts when used with NIB scopes that are presumably centered as they come, being about as close to on as I do boresighting.

They're just as stupid on this topic as they are on who to knock up and how to bathe and pay their bills and drive their car and vote.

Stupid should hurt and I'm all for it.

No thanks

I have seen scopes mounted backwards, and guys at the range sighting in their rifles in the off hand position.

Who brought up Oregon? LMFAO

What a coinkydink! Yesterday at the range a guy comes over to the 50 from the 100 because he can’t get his Axis on paper. Still not on paper at 50, so I tell him to remove the bolt and drag my Hart rest over and we put his gun in it. It’s a foot right at 50, sighting through the barrel. He holds up one of those dinky laser thingys and asks what I think of it, like he doesn’t already know. Anyway, I helped him boresight it, showing him how instead of just doing it for him.

That .30/06 Axis was kicking his ass BTW, and everything he tried doing with it was a struggle: dropping the mag and removing/replacing the bolt. He fussed about that some, so I asked how much he paid for it. “$200”, he said. I said, “well, there you go”.

Our local Wal-Mart's manager was a personal hunting friend. He increased his sporting goods department. He expanded the hunting merch, including firearms. He hired knowledgeable personnel & would special order items upon request. It was good while it lasted.

I usually bore sight at 25 yards and typically find the first shot within an inch or so at that range. I’d never hunt without shooting, but that accuracy would kill very many of the deer I’ve taken. They are pretty big and are often shot at close range.

I've seen that myself, but only once at the B. Amateur
Shop. I forgot exactly what it was because it's been
a long time and I don't usually go there.
I requested to look at some something, and the
"Pro" picked it off the rack and was looking it
over before handing it to me and was having
trouble looking through the scope for whatever
reason. He diddled with it and diddled some
more, and another "pro" walked over and they
both diddled. I finally asked what the deal
was and he told me that the scope was defective.
He got close enough to the counter that I
could see it was mounted backwards. There
were like 3 or 4 together on the rack with the
scopes mounted backwards in the same way.

One of the many reasons I've tried to get
others to patronize the local businesses

Wow! That reminds me of a similar event.

It was about 18 years ago that a coworker dropped a bunch of $$$ on a stainless Ruger #1 and scope setup at a very large and well known sporting goods retailer here in Michigan. He was proudly showing it to me when it was noticed that the scope had been mounted with a cant. Knowing that I'm fairly "gunny", he asked if I had the right screwdriver to fix it. I did, and proceeded to loosen all 4 screws on the rear ring cap, then moved to the front cap, where I found all 4 cap screws loose; not even snugged.

This is just another reason why I and alone mount my scopes and sight my rifles.