How to bore sight a rifle
Simple instructions on how to bore sight your rifle:
How to bore sight a rifle by Chuck Hawks
If you are new to shooting and don’t know what bore sighting is then I recommend reading the article. Bore sighting allows you to more or less sight your scope (align the cross hairs with the point of impact at a certain range). Then when you get to the gun range you at least know you will hit your target. You can then adjust the scope by seeing where your shot went and changing the windage/elevation accordingly.
Laser bore sighting devices can be purchased to help with bore sighting:
From opticsplanet.net:
Measure 25 yards, you may use a vice or gun rest to assist in holding your weapon on target. While the laser is on the bull’s eye, you can now observe how many inches your scope or iron sights off target (the laser will put you within 1.5 to 2 inches of dead center).
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The modern bore sighters are very good, but if you don’t mind spending about twenty minutes, you can do it the old fashioned way, and save the fifty or so bucks the bore sighter cost.
I use my B & D workmate (padded) to hold the rifle level, place a target about 20 feet away, and look through the bore, adjusting the workmate until the bore is dead on the centre of the bullseye.
Then I adjust the scope so it’s horizontally dead on, and vertically about an inch or so high.
When I’ve taken the rifle to the range to do the final sight in, I’ve always found it to be within 2 inches, horizontally or vertically, of dead centre.
As I said , the modern bore sighters are good, but not much better than the manual system, if you are diligent, and with the money saved, I can buy a couple of boxes of good ammunition.