Laser Bore Sighting AR 15 Oshawa area

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So I finally bought my first modern rifle complete with a rifle scope.

I've been to the range 3 times and the rifle scope is so far out of alignment with the barrel I can't get anything on paper.

I've decided to stop wasting ammo at this point and get the scope bore sighted.

So far I have been unable to find anyone local that can do it: incl. Bass Pro in Vaughn, Gagnon sports, and CDN gunworx.

If you know of anyone please let me know.

Best Regards,

1200 Bandits
 
Try Easthill outdoor in Orono, right on the 135/15 south of Taunton (or north I forget). Google them you'll find it. I bought a rifle and scope there and they put them together and bore sighted for me. Surprised Gagnon couldn't (or wouldn't?) help.

1200 Bandits said:
So I finally bought my first modern rifle complete with a rifle scope.

I've been to the range 3 times and the rifle scope is so far out of alignment with the barrel I can't get anything on paper.

I've decided to stop wasting ammo at this point and get the scope bore sighted.

So far I have been unable to find anyone local that can do it: incl. Bass Pro in Vaughn, Gagnon sports, and CDN gunworx.

If you know of anyone please let me know.

Best Regards,

1200 Bandits
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Thanks for the recommendation.

Gagnon did help. However, there set-up wouldn't fit on my AR-15. They thought this would be the case when I spoke with them on the phone, but offered to try it if I brought it out.
 
Take the BCG out, prop the upper up on bags or a backpack, and actually boresight it.

I don't have any issues getting on paper at 50m using this method.

Or, get a really big sheet of paper or cardboard and start at 25m or less.
 
Like Stevo said use the poor man boresight method. Put the upper in a gun rest, if you don't have that then sand bag it. Look down the bore and put it on the bullseye of the target. Then hold it on there and adjust the scope on to the bullseye.
 
1200 Bandits said:
So I finally bought my first modern rifle complete with a rifle scope.

I've been to the range 3 times and the rifle scope is so far out of alignment with the barrel I can't get anything on paper.

I've decided to stop wasting ammo at this point and get the scope bore sighted.

So far I have been unable to find anyone local that can do it: incl. Bass Pro in Vaughn, Gagnon sports, and CDN gunworx.

If you know of anyone please let me know.

Best Regards,

1200 Bandits
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Try to sight it in first at 20 yards on a very large piece of cardboard then move on. Far to many begin at the 100 yard mark without success.
 
I can't imagine going to all this trouble for a rifle with such inexpensive ammo!


-Grab a paper and put a little "X" in the middle.
-Then measure down 1.5 inches (for an ar15) and draw a little "O"
-Start at the closest burm (25 yards?)
-Aim for the center of the X
-Keep your eyes open (seriously, keep your eyes open)
-Shoot and look for the impact. Your open eyes will see where the dirt explodes if you're not on paper.
-Adjust scope to get on paper
-once on paper, measure the horizontal and vertical distance to the "O"
-Multiply the inches by sixteen (8 if you have 1/2moa clicks) and adjust the scope that many clicks. (so if you're 5 inches right and 2 1/2 high: you need to adjust 80 clicks left and 40 clicks down)
-That should put you in the "O" while aiming at the "X" which SHOULD put you in the bull at 100 yards
-if your scope doesn't have enough adjustment to get on target at 25 yards, it's mounted wrong or defective.

Or buy a $20 bore sighter.

Just remember, if you're bore sighting at 5 yards in your basement, don't put the cross hairs on the laser. You want them about 2 1/4 inches above the laser. Otherwise you'll be about 5 FEET high at 100 yards.
 
Stevo said:
Take the BCG out, prop the upper up on bags or a backpack, and actually boresight it.

I don't have any issues getting on paper at 50m using this method.

Or, get a really big sheet of paper or cardboard and start at 25m or less.
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Rebel Rouser said:
Like Stevo said use the poor man boresight method. Put the upper in a gun rest, if you don't have that then sand bag it. Look down the bore and put it on the bullseye of the target. Then hold it on there and adjust the scope on to the bullseye.
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Or take a cardboard box, and cut notches on either side to support the upper.

Fast, easy, don't have to buy anything.
 
Thanks everyone.

I figured out what was vexing me. I will take it to EastHill tomorrow for them to boresight as a reset; but I will be able to finetune it if needed at the range.

So basically here's what happened. As mentioned it is my first rifle scope. I had read somewhere that when one adjusts a scope they should adjust in the opposite direction to where the bullet lands. While that seemed counter-intuitive at first I thought about it and realised that if my scope was high at the front of my barrel and lower at the rear of my barrel, and I had my sights at the centre of the target my barrel would be below the centre of the target and I would shoot low.

So if I lowered my scope so that it was parallel with my barrel that would have the effect of raising my barrel when I aimed and thus raising my shot placement.

So that's what I did. Over two range trips. I bottomed out on my lowering adjustment and was frustrated.

Wednesday night I decided to look at my set-up at home and read the manual and found an instruction that read "Adjust the scope in the direction you want your bullet to move."

So I took my windage out to full stop, looked through the scope and saw my barrel to the left of the axis of my scope, and thought I would want the bullet to move right. So I adjusted the windage right, and sure enough it moved, and it centred the scope with the barrel.

ffs.

Thanks again.
 
Stevo said:
Take the BCG out, prop the upper up on bags or a backpack, and actually boresight it.

I don't have any issues getting on paper at 50m using this method.

Or, get a really big sheet of paper or cardboard and start at 25m or less.
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+1 to both, there is no rocket science to getting on paper with either method.


Mark
 
1200 Bandits said:
Thanks everyone.

I figured out what was vexing me. I will take it to EastHill tomorrow for them to boresight as a reset; but I will be able to finetune it if needed at the range.

So basically here's what happened. As mentioned it is my first rifle scope. I had read somewhere that when one adjusts a scope they should adjust in the opposite direction to where the bullet lands. While that seemed counter-intuitive at first I thought about it and realised that if my scope was high at the front of my barrel and lower at the rear of my barrel, and I had my sights at the centre of the target my barrel would be below the centre of the target and I would shoot low.

So if I lowered my scope so that it was parallel with my barrel that would have the effect of raising my barrel when I aimed and thus raising my shot placement.

So that's what I did. Over two range trips. I bottomed out on my lowering adjustment and was frustrated.

Wednesday night I decided to look at my set-up at home and read the manual and found an instruction that read "Adjust the scope in the direction you want your bullet to move."

So I took my windage out to full stop, looked through the scope and saw my barrel to the left of the axis of my scope, and thought I would want the bullet to move right. So I adjusted the windage right, and sure enough it moved, and it centred the scope with the barrel.

ffs.

Thanks again.
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The direction of the arrow on the turrets is moving the point of impact. So if the turret says up with a counter clockwise arrow turning it counter clockwise moves the bullet impact up. Same with the windage adjustment, follow the arrow to move the bullet impact.
I've never laser bore sighted a rifle and I've been through plenty of them. As a few have said, take it apart and remove the bolt and prop it on something stable and just look down the bore and get it on a target then look through the scope and adjust the crosshairs to be on the target, that will get you close, put it back together and test fire it and just adjust as required to be hitting around 1-1.5 inches low at 25yds which should put you pretty close at 100yds.
It's easy and there really is no reason to pay someone to bore sight your rifle when you can do it yourself in 5 minutes.
And you should be sighting in your scope while shooting from a solid rest, don't try to do it standing or shooting off your elbows on a table.
 
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