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What would you recommend as the best / most accurate laser bore sighter on the market. Wheelers is the most expensive bit is it worth it? Getting ready to buy one

Pieces of worthless schit. Hint.

Use your blinkers and a scope that ACTUALLY fhuqking tracks and (3) shots to attain zero,is a whole fhuqking bunch of shooting. Hint.

Thank me later...................

Completely agree

Total waste of money

The only tool I've found to ever help save a round or two of ammo is an old Bushnell collimator. Especially if you are removing a zero'ed scope and replacing it with a new one, I can generally get a new scope to shoot within a few clicks at 100 first time out by recording what the old scope saw on the collimator and putting the new one as close to there as I can, takes about 30 seconds.

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.

Bushnell collimeter. Will also work with semiautos, pumps, and lever actions where you can't just pull the bolt and sight thru barrel. Got mine about 35 yrs ago. Can do initial bore sight at home before going to the range.

But But But Jim Shockey swears by his. I bought one about 10 years ago, wasted money.

If you want, after sighting in rifle, you can adjust the grid in the collimeter to match for easier scope remounting.

Oh yeah, you can also help prevent a canted scope by making sure vertical line in scope reticle is parallel with vertical collimeter grid lines.

For lever rifles etc. that you can't shuck the bolt on, you can stick em in a vise, turn off the lights, and shine a flashlight into the chamber, projecting a beam of light through the barrel onto a nearby wall. Adjust scope to wherever the beam of light hit. That has got me on paper a time or two.

I can get on paper every time using my Leupold Zero Point Magnetic Illuminated Boresighter. Sadly, I believe they quit making them years ago..

Yep, "trusts his life to it."

I had three of them, NIB. You should've seen what they fetched on Ebay.....a fool and his money........

I can get on paper everytime and I don't use a mechanical bore sighter

I agree with ckat. I put my rifles in a lead sled, pull the bolt and look down the barrel to align the bore with the target. Target is set at 25 yds. Then adjust the crosshairs to be centered on the bull's eye. Once I line up, I shoot a round or 2 at 25 yds. and adjust my point of impact to be about 1" low. At 100 yards I'm usually really close to hitting the bull. So close that I usually need only a couple of rounds to adjust the scope where I want the impact to be, usually 2 1/2" high at 100 yards. I think 6 rounds is the most I've ever had to fire to get a new scope adjusted where I want it to be.

I have always just looked through the bbl and moved the x to it. I try to pick something 100 yards away and the only time I wasn't on paper was with a couple of scopes that were bad out of the box. In fact I did it for a guy at deer camp couple of weeks ago. He thought I was crazy until he shot his rifle.

I've got a BSA bore sighter (collimiter) that I purchased 15 years ago. It never fails to put me on the paper at 100 yards.

It cracks me up that Jeremy Shockey tries to pedal those POF bore sighters on every episode !!!!!!!

I'm glad you got one that works. I have one of those BSA bore sighters too. Sure, it will put me on paper but it has to be a hell of a big sheet of paper! First shot is always high to the left so now I adjust accordingly.
The last scope I mounted I used the method ckat mentioned and it was more accurate than my BSA bore sighter.