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Q. on those laser rounds to check sight picture...

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Excuse my ignorance on this one. I picked up one of those laser sight rounds to check your sights.

My understanding is that when it's in the gun if the barrel is good the laser dot should be exactly where the fixed iron sights are, even thou in my check it was about 4 inches, 10 yards away from target up. Am I understanding this right? So, does that mean my gun is NOT properly aligned correctly? (Un adjustable iron sights.)

And then I turned on my green dot, because I wanted to kinda zero the green dot to the barrel before going to the range to zero in the new sight. Am I correct that you move the green dot over and on top of your laser sight round, then work the adjustments from there?

Thanks for any explanation or reply.

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The laser can get you close but the issue is it goes in a straight line where your rounds even pistol bullets have a trajectory. So while not as pronounced as say an AR 15 there will be some “mechanical offset” with it.

You might get lucky but most likely it will get you close.

As far as the conwitnessing Technique that only works if you have the same sight picture through the RDS every time as remember one advantage of RDS is no matter where the dot is in the screen where it’s at on the target is where it hits so no more equal light equal hight stuff!
 
Well from what I've learned from using several different lasers to align optics is, it takes time. As long as the manufacturer aligned the laser correctly it works. I'll make 3 marks on the base to check for center. If all 3 hit the same spot you have a good 1. For me if the irons are spot on, I adjust the optic to match. The laser cam get you close, but isn't always correct. I mainly use the to get on paper.
 
Right.

Your sights are x distance over the center of the bore, so, right off the bat, the laser dot will not be the same as your sights—even assuming the laser is perfectly parallel with the center of the bore (and that’s a big assumption).

Additionally, pistol sights are typically zeroed for 25 yards/meters, typically with the bullet hitting apogee at that distance.

So…those laser sights usually don’t give much useful information as far as telling if your sights are zeroed or not. The only way to tell is put rounds downrange and make the proper adjustments.
 
what i do is at 25 feet, in garage using a white background
i place the barrel laser bore sight sight in the barrel
then i look through the optic and see where the red laser is at in relation to the green dot in the optic
then i marry those two up at the 25 foot mark by adjusting the optic dot, with pistol in a holder so it all non WIGGLY :love:
so for me at 25 feet the bullet should in theory hit the same place as it would using the iron sights
then i adjust a bit for 50 feet at the range
 
I don't really bother with bore sighting anymore. I've never met a boresight that was worth a damn. On a new AR platform rifle I have a set up in the shop with a vice and I will literally boresight by looking through the barrel and set the optic or BUIS there as a starting point. Even that I rarely do since most rifle optics come zero'ed pretty close at 50 yards. When zeroing I will do the optic and the flip ups independently of each other.
 
Bassbob said:
I don't really bother with bore sighting anymore. I've never met a boresight that was worth a damn. On a new AR platform rifle I have a set up in the shop with a vice and I will literally boresight by looking through the barrel and set the optic or BUIS there as a starting point. Even that I rarely do since most rifle optics come zero'ed pretty close at 50 yards. When zeroing I will do the optic and the flip ups independently of each other.
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Yep. Range time IS THE BEST TIME🤠
 
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