Thread: Bore sight Lazer way off when rifle is zeroed

Hey team trying to get my head around this one, when I bore sight my rifle with the Lazer I get the scope pretty much bang on. Take it to the farm and puts some rounds through it at 100m then 50m and I'm way way off (about a ft left and high). I spent some time getting it to hit paper then get it zeroed. Put the Lazer bore sight in it when i got home and at 20m the dot of the Lazer is about 3 inches low and right of where my cross hairs are.
Rifle is a Ruger American .308 w/ Burris E1
Is this normal or anything you guys have come across before?
Cheers

The lazers are rubbish bro

Good boresight should have you on a4 paper at 100Y

edit to add they are only good on sharks in movies

I’ve not heard much good about laser bore sights. Never used one though


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Waste of time. I use a colometer and that gets it pretty close but still need to shoot it to fine tune it.

Originally Posted by blip

Waste of time. I use a colometer and that gets it pretty close but still need to shoot it to fine tune it.

Never heard of a colometer. What is it?


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Originally Posted by HOO

Never heard of a colometer. What is it?


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bore sighter...a thing you poke on muzzle end that gives you a grid when look through scope....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

bore sighter...a thing you poke on muzzle end that gives you a grid when look through scope....

I thought it sounded like something you poke up your date to have a look what’s going on


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leave that to medical professionals and you have had sufficient drugs

Originally Posted by HOO

I thought it sounded like something you poke up your date to have a look what’s going on


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ohhh if ya doctor has a cross hair on it ya likely in deep shit indeed

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

bore sighter...a thing you poke on muzzle end that gives you a grid when look through scope....

I have a Leupold one.
It's not accurate, as in if I dial on to the zero, the rifle will be way off. But if I put it on a sighted rifle and remember where the crosshair sits on the grid, and use that reference on another rifle it gets me on the paper. It's handy for checking your zero without firing a shot if you can remember the reference point.
Bearing mind different loads often shoot to different points in the same rifle, never take anyone's word that boresiters are the bees knees.

Bore sight lasers are a sales gimmick and a complete waste of time.

Unless your using your laser boresight at the range your shooting at it will be miles off.
You need to work out how far below the cross hairs the laser will be at your laser zero range.
Last time I used one, the laser dot was 3" low and .25" right at 10m but pretty close to bang on at 100m

I've got 1 that fits in the muzzle and it was way off when new but it is spot on after I tuned it. I put in the lathe and rotated the chuck to show a big circle on the wall, simply adjust the 2 screws to get the dot in the centre of that circle. Spin the chuck again and the dot should remain on the same point.
This doesn't allow for ballistics but has got every rifle on paper first shot.

Cheers everyone. Will get rid of the lazer and just roll with how it's zeroed at the moment.

Originally Posted by HOO

Never heard of a colometer. What is it?


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It goes in the muzzle end of rifle and has what kind of looks like half a scope on it when you look through scope you can see a grid that you adjust scope to. Some people seem to have a knack of bore sighting by looking through barrel but i suck at that. Tried a laser and that was shit colometer works for me