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Posted: 12/30/2013 11:54:26 AM EDT
| Who makes a good laser bore sight for a 5.56 AR? |
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The insight LBS-300 milspec one is pretty great. 5.56/7.62mm & .50 caliber mandrels included!
Really happy with mine so far. It has two constant on modes, daytime & NVG use, plus a "pulse" mode for dryfire practice, the inertia of the hammer dropping on an empty chamber momentarily activates the laser. It's GREAT for dry fire practice. |
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The insight LBS-300 milspec one is pretty great. 5.56/7.62mm & .50 caliber mandrels included! Really happy with mine so far. It has two constant on modes, daytime & NVG use, plus a "pulse" mode for dryfire practice, the inertia of the hammer dropping on an empty chamber momentarily activates the laser. It's GREAT for dry fire practice. That looks like a really nice system, but quite a bit more expensive than I was planning on. |
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Well,
I use the cartridge style laser bore sights... They are cheap...work good... Remember a bore sighter is just to get close... All the ones I've had are very good...they can't be off too much else the laser won't even leave the muzzle... Anyhow, for cheap they work good...I've got a very nice bore sight system...and don't use it much anymore...just the cartridges... Bret |
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The insight LBS-300 milspec one is pretty great. 5.56/7.62mm & .50 caliber mandrels included! Really happy with mine so far. It has two constant on modes, daytime & NVG use, plus a "pulse" mode for dryfire practice, the inertia of the hammer dropping on an empty chamber momentarily activates the laser. It's GREAT for dry fire practice. That looks just like the AN/PEM-1 we used in the military. Is it the same thing, but just renamed? They even had a mandrel that would fit into a 40mm barrel for the M203, never say it used in that though. |
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To me they are a waste of good money on an AR.
Simply remove the upper and set it down pointed at a target. Look through the barrel and line your sights up centered on what you can see looking though the barrel. Works as good as any laser I've ever used.... And it cost nothing. At a distance far enough to matter for a good zero lasers are not very easy to see however the center of a target is easy as can be. |
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Can't look down the bore of an AK or an AR15 that's actually assembled and on the firing line. I would like to get a mandrel for 9mm and 12ga, most handguns don't allow you to peer down the bore either, nor will my Remington shotguns.
Also, once you have calibrated your laser boresighter to your rifles bore at the zeroing range, the elevation & windage adjustments can be used along with a ballistics chart to confirm the zero of your rifle for other, specific shots you might want to take. |
| SLITE-150M and SL-500MG A little on the pricey side but the laser is bright and close to accurate. We use them on several MIL issued. SightMark has a laser boresighter as well. Leupold makes a zero point boresighter that seems to work well for a lot of folks and they are roughly below the $100 mark. Lots to choose from : ) |
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Hi:
My first post in here. I have several types of Laser bore sighting devices. Three of the type that you stick into the end of the barrel on the rifle and one of the bullet types that you stick inside the rifle chamber. They range from .177 cal, 22 cal. 222 cal and 223 cal. My favorite is the bullet type: It's the Sight Mark Laser Bore Sight. Check it out at www.sightmark.com It's easy to use right out of the box. Just install the two AG5 batteries into it and stick it inside the AR15's 5.56 chamber and aim the rifle at a target that 25 yards away. I have the bullet type laser that fits into the chamber of my AR15. It's easy to use. Set up a target at 25 years and assemble the batteries into the laser bullet bore sight device and the red laser light comes on. Stick the bullet laser thing into the AR15's chamber. Set the AR15 up on a shoot rest and get the laser on the bulls eye. Adjust the rifles scope to level level before you start this process and then adjust the windage and elevation knobs on the scope to be on the bulls eye when doing this at 25 meters. . This should get you on paper at 100 yards at the range. You should be within 4" of the bulls eye at 100 yards if you do this. So the instructions say. I think I put the cross hairs at about 1" low of the 25 meter bulls eye target when the laser was in the bulls eye of the 25 meter target. If the barrel of the rifle is bent or doesn't line up with the receiver you can still bore sight the rifle with the bullet device according to the instructions. But my AR15 made by Daniel Defense's new Ambush Firearms Company was good from the get go. I did this with my new AR15 Ambush Firearms after doing this same procedure with my Nikon scope and another cheap 4X Gamo air rifle scope that I installed onto my friends AR15. So I had some practice doing this before I laser bore sighted my new Ambush Firearms 5.56 AR15 with my Nikon M-223 Scope. My first shot at the rifle range using my Ambush Firearms AR15 was right in the center of the bulls eye set at 100 yards away. I was using the larger sight N C target. Practice makes perfect I guess and I got lucky. The first time I used this method with the friends AR15 High Standard 16" barrel with 1/9 twist and Remington AccuTip 55 gr bullets I was high on the Sight N C target at 100 yards. I barely hit the paper on the first shot. I had to walk to the target to see the bullet hole at the very top of the paper. I could not see it with my spotting scope from the shooting stand. I adjusted 8" down and 2" over and the next shot was in the bulls eye using the Gamo 4x32 air rifle scope mounted with a 1" riser that I got from Gander Mountain on the High Standard AR15. When I got my new Nikon M-223 4x16x42 BDC 600 scope I put it on the High Standard AR15 and bore sighted it with the bullet style laser bore sighting device and it was on paper the first shot. I was getting better and figuring out where to put the cross hairs on the 25 yard target while the laser was on the bulls eye. So when I finally got the new Ambush Firearms AR15 5.56 in my hand and put the Nikon on it I was ready to bore sight it and take it to the rifle range. BTW: It's a 45 minute drive to the range from my house. I was also able to take the equipment with me to the rifle range in case I needed to bore sight the rifle in again at the range. But that was not necessary with the last setup as the first shot out of the cold barrel was right in the center of the bulls eye. I was using the same Remington AccuTip 55 gr ammo. |
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