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Old 01-23-2023, 05:57 PM
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Default Quality laser bore sight for pistols?

I have a number of pistols getting night sights, and getting to a range right now is very difficult.

Are there any quality in the chamber styles, or alternatively, a quality in bore with adapters?

I have long central hallways on both floors of the house, so a 50' clear run is easy at night to see the dot.
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I have a number of pistols getting night sights, and getting to a range right now is very difficult.

Are there any quality in the chamber styles, or alternatively, a quality in bore with adapters?

I have long central hallways on both floors of the house, so a 50' clear run is easy at night to see the dot.
Those would be very tough to use with iron sights for a short range firearm. They are usually used with scoped rifles.

What kind of guns and sights are they? Just simple dovetails? Most of the time they are going to be "close enough" for SD ranges. Most night sights aren't adjustable anyway...or are just drift adjustable for windage.

I'd put them on, center them, and not worry about missing a large target at close range, although you should get out and shoot as soon as you can.
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Old 01-23-2023, 06:16 PM
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A few (gasp) Glocks, 2 Sigs, and 3 3rd gen S&W. And a massive 1911A2 in 10mm. Several have advustable sights.

I have the sight pusher kit that a member here builds/sells.
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Laserlyte bore sighter.... 22-50 cal.
$50

Been using this for many years.
Target they supply works for us at 35' indoors.
Get windage on target.
Get elevation as they advise.
Go to range and it's an ammo saver.
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Laserlyte bore sighter.... 22-50 cal.
$50

Been using this for many years.
Target they supply works for us at 35' indoors.
Get windage on target.
Get elevation as they advise.
Go to range and it's an ammo saver.
I have the very same one. They don't work so great outdoors in daylight. But if you can use one to get your iron sights or optic adjusted and dialed in at 30-40 yards on the indoor range, that will probably at least get you on paper out to 75 or 100 yards.
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A few years back, after reading as many on line reviews as I could find on the subject of laser bore sighters, decided to go with the Sightmark brand laser bore sighter. The Sightmark is very easy to use, no work other than putting the batteries in and sliding it into the chamber of my 9mm. It works fine even with all the lights on in the house, the red dot is very visible. I have used it when replacing iron sights on a 3rd gen S&W and used it for setting up my Holosun 507 Green Dot on my new M&P Compact 2.0. I use it down the hallway of my house, approx 30 feet and this gets sights spot on so when I go to the range no further adjustment is needed shooting out to 25 yards at the range. I give the Sightmark an A+ for ease of use and accuracy.

Relatively small cost and it comes with batteries and in a nice case.

Just checked Cabela's website and they have it for $29.99, likely can find it even less at one of the discount houses like Midway, etc, I just like Cabela's, my favorite store to just stroll around in even if I do not need anything, so I patronize them with my on line shopping as well; using their CC the Cabela's bucks seem to add up fast.
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Old 01-24-2023, 05:44 PM
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I have a Sight-Rite laser sight in .22 LR caliber and another made by Aim Sports in .30-30 Winchester although I use in in my .32 Winchester Special. Both are the types that look like a cartridge and are inserted into the breech rather than the kind that is inserted into the muzzle.

Just how precise the fit is determines how accurate the device will be. If the beam is not concentric with the bore axis you will be off by several inches at 25 yards. The Aim Sports laser device fit snugly into the chamber of my Marlin 336 or at least snugly enough that trying to move it around with the tip of my finger against the rim didn't show any appreciable movement of the laser spot.

The Sight-Rite .22 LR unit was another story. I needed to make one complete wrap of the device with a piece of Scotch tape to increase the diameter enough to prevent any wiggle in the chamber. And that was in a Walther KKJ that has a Match chamber. But once that was done only a couple of clicks in each direction on the scope were needed at 25 yards to get the point of impact to coincide with the laser dot and from there, just a few more clicks of elevation brought the group up to where I wanted it to be.

With the cost of ammo these days, burning up a $40-$50 box of ammo to sight in a gun isn't a small deal.
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With the number of pistols getting night sights or adj fiber optic sights, and rifles getting scopes, a laser set is cheap even if it only cuts out half the shots for me.
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Thanks for bringing this up, I just ordered a LaserLyte from Midway.
I have two guns with new sights, one of which was re-barreled too, that have not been shot since.
So easy, even a cave man could do it!
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I’ve been very pleased with the Sightmark Universal Boresight. It attaches magnetically to the muzzle and automatically centers itself. Works very well for me, except with non-steel barrels such as my Volquartsen LLV. In that case, I simply placed the red dot sight I was trying to zero on another pistol, zeroed it, and then moved it to the VQ. It was off by less than 1” at 30 feet when I got it to the range.
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I've used a Cabela's bore sighter for several rifles. I've found it's good for getting on the paper. I fine tune from there.
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Laserlyte Bore Sight kit has worked very well for me too. Super handy!
I set them up across the full length of the shop and turn the lights off outside the work area to easily see the projected dot on the furthest wall.
This has faithfully put numerous red dots, LPVOs & scopes initial shots to within ~3'' at 25yards for pistols or 50yards for rifles.
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