Author Topic: Boresighting: How close to actual sighting in can you get? (Read 1540 times)

coyote trapper1929 · « **on:** November 19, 2005, 06:00:11 AM »

If I have my gunsmith install a new 3-9 riflescope and he boresights it in, how close to actual sighting in at a rifle range can you get with just bore sighting the scope?

Thanks,

savageT · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2005, 07:30:15 AM »

All you can expect to do is get it on paper at 25 yds.............I don't think I want to trust that kind of accuracy for hunting, do you?!!!
Jim

mr.frosty · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2005, 03:08:57 PM »

I use a boresighter and it gets me close at 25 yds but ya have to fine tune it to 50 and 100 yds. I have a laser boresighter and helped a man sight
his .243 at 50 yds and made adjustments to the reddot and his first shot
hit where the dot was.

hillbill · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2005, 03:10:40 PM »

ive boresighted a bunch a rifles, no matter how carefull yu are. some end up close to dead on and some take some serious adjustment on the range. however, usually a good boresite will get yu on the paper at 50 yrds or so. this alone should save yu a few rounds of ammo. dont trust a boresite to get yu sighted in for hunting.

gunnut69 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2005, 05:30:06 AM »

As hillbill said a good bore sight should get you on the paper at 50 yards. That said I saw a guy shoot a hole in a target stand at 25 yards,,,with a richochet!! The bullet had hit the ground half way to the target and put a largish hole in the plastic target holder.. Remember I said a Good Boresite not some numb skull with a bore sighter.. I did without a bore sighter for many years, I could again, but they are handy.. You can do as well by looking down the bore if that's possible with the design of your weapon..

drdougrx · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2005, 01:15:22 PM »

I'm with you guys. I have a bushnell and have used it for years. It gets me on the paper at 25....sometimes just barely.

Keith L · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2005, 04:54:09 PM »

A couple years ago I bought a Leupold magnetic bore sighting tool, and it gets me on the paper at 100 yards as long as the crown is square with the bore. A gunsmith recommended it to me, and frankly I mistrused his word but bought it anyway. Now after a whole bunch of scopes/guns and it has worked so well I am a believer.

jed · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2005, 05:23:00 AM »

:roll: I donot trust bore sighters. All scopes are not the same height from center of bore, so how could they work? I tryed one once, it was 2ft high at 100. I look trough the bore at target and adjust scope to it. If it is not possible to remove bolt, I use a small mirror. I can get it within 6 inches at 100 meters this way. Sometimes within 1 inch.

hylander · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2005, 04:57:16 PM »

I'd say about this close

This is from my Mosin Sniper Wanta'be
I bore sight my own at the range by looking done the bore at 100yd.
and centering the taget in the bore, then adjusting the scope to match.
I got real lucky this time, but I'm always on paper at 100yd.

CJ · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2005, 03:22:43 AM »

Just scoped and boresighted a Thompson Omega 50cal for a friend, 3inches low and 1 left at 100 with the first shot. Im not a gunsmith, but Ive probably mounted and/or swapped and removed and replaced about 100 scopes for myself and friends, the worst was 6inches at 100. $69 Simmons boresighter.