I've never used one. What i do is pop out the bolt and sight down the barrel with the rifle locked in a wood vice work table and set the sights, or scope to an object sighted looking through the barrel. saves time and money. that should get you on paper. but if i were to get one i woud get one of those lazers that fits in the chamber. cabellas has them as well as all the other on line stores. cost about 50dollars. good luck.
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My experience is with the cheap Bushnell with the various arbors that fits in the end of the barrel. Works well enough when you can get the (really) cheap on off switch to work. 
I wouldn't have bothered with one except it was dirt cheap and there wasn't much to lose.
I wouldn't have bothered with one except it was dirt cheap and there wasn't much to lose.
I would save my money and use it towards something else, unless you just want another toy to mess with. When I mount scopes If I have time I will sight through the barrel and adjust the scope to get on paper. Most of the time I don't even do that. I mount the scope and put up a target at 100 yards and shoot. If I don't have a bullet hole on the target I will walk to to about 10 feet away from the target and shoot, then adjust the scope from there and back up and shoot. I can usually have a scope sighted in in 5 rounds or less. It's more fun to pull the trigger
Maybe I should spend the money on a vice grip then...I don't have any way of securing the rifle to a surface strong enough that the rifle wouldn't move when I fire it so I can zero the scope. I've just got a field. Maybe I could drag a table out in the field and screw a vice grip to it...but the table will still move when I fire the gun at a target. The gun ranges around here that can do this sort of thing cost $25-30 bucks just to enter. Maybe I should do that instead, but I'd really prefer being able to do this on my own without spending so much damn money on it.big medicine said:I would save my money and use it towards something else, unless you just want another toy to mess with. When I mount scopes If I have time I will sight through the barrel and adjust the scope to get on paper. Most of the time I don't even do that. I mount the scope and put up a target at 100 yards and shoot. If I don't have a bullet hole on the target I will walk to to about 10 feet away from the target and shoot, then adjust the scope from there and back up and shoot. I can usually have a scope sighted in in 5 rounds or less. It's more fun to pull the trigger
Any suggestions?
Just saved yourself a few bucksHarland said:
My B.I.L. bought a new Browning A-Bolt Stalker, had a decent scope mounted on it at the shop where he purchased it, they did the bore-sighting for him for free...
He thought he was good to go. He never took it out and tweaked or fine-tuned it. The guy at the shop told him he was dead nut on at 250 yards with the bore-sight, and my B.I.L. believed him. I tried for four weeks or so to convince him otherwise - no such luck. He still doesn't understand why he missed all those shots that year... : At least, now he goes out the week before deer season, puts three into a pie plate and 100 yards, and calls it good. After shooting two boxes during the season the first year he had that rifle, and no harvest he sort of learned the lesson. A single box of 20 rounds still lasts about three or four years for him, but at least he double checks his zero. Unfortunately, after putting three into a paper plate, from a bench, at 100 yards, he proudly proclaims he is the "Deer Sniper King Incarnate" or some such BravoSierra. If only he knew... :-X
The bore sighting method described earlier is the best bet, followed by verification at 25 yards, tweaking at 50 yards, then fine tuning at 100 yards. You will be reasonably well sighted within four or five shots as described earlier, you will get some more trigger time with your little darling, and by the end of twenty or so rounds, you will have a keen understanding of what your trigger feels like. Did I mention you will get more trigger time? ;D
He thought he was good to go. He never took it out and tweaked or fine-tuned it. The guy at the shop told him he was dead nut on at 250 yards with the bore-sight, and my B.I.L. believed him. I tried for four weeks or so to convince him otherwise - no such luck. He still doesn't understand why he missed all those shots that year... :
At least, now he goes out the week before deer season, puts three into a pie plate and 100 yards, and calls it good. After shooting two boxes during the season the first year he had that rifle, and no harvest he sort of learned the lesson. A single box of 20 rounds still lasts about three or four years for him, but at least he double checks his zero. Unfortunately, after putting three into a paper plate, from a bench, at 100 yards, he proudly proclaims he is the "Deer Sniper King Incarnate" or some such BravoSierra. If only he knew... :-XThe bore sighting method described earlier is the best bet, followed by verification at 25 yards, tweaking at 50 yards, then fine tuning at 100 yards. You will be reasonably well sighted within four or five shots as described earlier, you will get some more trigger time with your little darling, and by the end of twenty or so rounds, you will have a keen understanding of what your trigger feels like. Did I mention you will get more trigger time? ;D
Relax.Harland said:
Breathe and squeeze. Don't force it or anticipate it. Just let it come when it comes. Look at the pad of your finger, find the spot where all the loops (prints) sort of center, that is the part of your finger you want on the trigger.
Be sure the rifle is seated firmly and comfortably in the pocket of your shoulder. Breathe, relax, let it come. Tell yourself it's no big deal. No one is shooting back and you aren't going to starve if you miss the shot.
Close your eyes if you have to. Don't matter a wit if you're all lined up on target if you're jerking the trigger.
I'd recommend getting some snap caps and using them to practice as well.
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