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What boresighter do you use to set scope?
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Dragon88
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You don't need a boresight. Set the target up at 5 yards and fire a couple shots. Make adjustments until the rounds are impacting about 2" low and centered for windage. Then move the target back to 25 yards and make further adjustments. After that, you can move the target to your intended zero range and adjust to your final zero.
Make this easier. Boresight from a benchrest at the range or at home with the rifle in a support of some kind. Center a conspicuous object about 100 yards away or so in the bore, then adjust the scope to the same place (the adjustments are backward from those used when shooting - if the cross hairs are to the left of the target, adjust the scope to the left, same w/ vertical adjustment.
Then shoot at 25 yards (or 100, if you feel lucky - I usually do this), refine the zero precisely.
While you don't need a collimeter to bore sight a rifle, they are useful for this and other things. Very easy to test the scope's adjustments, the security of the mounts (any slight movement is obvious). Important safety tip - take it out of the barrel before shooting.
Then shoot at 25 yards (or 100, if you feel lucky - I usually do this), refine the zero precisely.
While you don't need a collimeter to bore sight a rifle, they are useful for this and other things. Very easy to test the scope's adjustments, the security of the mounts (any slight movement is obvious). Important safety tip - take it out of the barrel before shooting.
Titegroups
Member
Those caps in the middle of the scope come off and there are screws under them to adjust the scope. Is that what you're asking?
Dragon88
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There are lots of videos on Youtube that will show you much faster than I can type. Here are a couple:
How To: Sight in Your Firearm - YouTube
Sighting in your rifle - YouTube
Again, I like the method I described above. No boresight needed, no fancy measurements, and no frustration. It's funny to see people begin their zeroing process at 50 yards and not even hit paper. After wasting half a box of ammo then finally relent and move their target in closer.
Also, remember that you are moving the bullet, not the crosshairs, when you make click adjustments. So if your rounds are hitting low on the target, you make UP clicks to move the round impact up. Simple right? People get really confused here sometimes and try to move the crosshairs around the target instead of the bullets.
You sound like a very new shooter. I highly recommend going to the range with someone who has some firearms knowledge. You need a good foundation and safety and marksmanship skills before you begin.
How To: Sight in Your Firearm - YouTube
Sighting in your rifle - YouTube
Again, I like the method I described above. No boresight needed, no fancy measurements, and no frustration. It's funny to see people begin their zeroing process at 50 yards and not even hit paper. After wasting half a box of ammo then finally relent and move their target in closer.
Also, remember that you are moving the bullet, not the crosshairs, when you make click adjustments. So if your rounds are hitting low on the target, you make UP clicks to move the round impact up. Simple right? People get really confused here sometimes and try to move the crosshairs around the target instead of the bullets.
You sound like a very new shooter. I highly recommend going to the range with someone who has some firearms knowledge. You need a good foundation and safety and marksmanship skills before you begin.
MAD FALCON
Member
Have the one made by Site Lite I use it mainly to set drift but I ballpark the elevation. Its not cheap ($150) but it saves me a lot of time and its been right on the money everytime I have used it. I used it to set up my pistol night sights i installed also. I have used ones from Laserlyte and SSI and they are not consistant (junk). just my .02 cents 
chuck s
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As noted earlier just mount the rifle securely to a bench and look thru the bore of the rifle and fix it on a distant object. In my neighborhood I use a corner of a window of one the houses a couple hundred meters away. Align the sight to that same point. Whatever: dot, irons, cross-hairs.
Fine tune it from that point at the range.
Keep in mind the very high arc of .22LR's trajectory. 75 meters is a good battlesight zero but you won't get X-ring accuracy unless you define and mark your scope for several intermediate ranges or determine the hold under/over you need at various ranges. 5.56mm is much more forgiving as it's velocity is 3x as fast.
-- Chuck
Fine tune it from that point at the range.
Keep in mind the very high arc of .22LR's trajectory. 75 meters is a good battlesight zero but you won't get X-ring accuracy unless you define and mark your scope for several intermediate ranges or determine the hold under/over you need at various ranges. 5.56mm is much more forgiving as it's velocity is 3x as fast.
-- Chuck
A bore sighter saves time and ammo
After I work up a rifle and mount a scope, I use a Bushnell bore sighter to get on target BEFORE I go to the range and before I fire a shot. By adjusting the scope to the bore sighters image, I am always within a few inches of the bull at 100yds on the first shot. So, I have used no ammo or range time; and I am on target at 100yds ready for the final adjustment for the ammo I am using.
Bore sighters make sense to me.
best, nrb
After I work up a rifle and mount a scope, I use a Bushnell bore sighter to get on target BEFORE I go to the range and before I fire a shot. By adjusting the scope to the bore sighters image, I am always within a few inches of the bull at 100yds on the first shot. So, I have used no ammo or range time; and I am on target at 100yds ready for the final adjustment for the ammo I am using.
Bore sighters make sense to me.
best, nrb
JaPes
Member
I use this type:
It gets me on paper, then I make adjustments to the iron sight or optic.
It gets me on paper, then I make adjustments to the iron sight or optic.
chuck s
Member
Bore sight indeed makes sense. If you have one.
-- Chuck
-- Chuck
