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Product Test - Bore Sighter
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Some weeks ago I purchased one of the newest Leupold magnetic type "boresighters".
It's full name is - Leupold Zero Point Magnetic Illuminated Boresighter"!
The main reason I spent the bucks for this "new fangled" tool was because I am doing so much scope mounting work on both 17 caliber and 20 caliber Rifles. My decades old, tried and true Bushnell spud type boresighter was not able to boresight either 17 or 20 caliber Rifles! I had no spud for those calibers! I could not find spuds either.
The new style magnetic boresighter by Leupold of course does not use spuds! It just magnetically clamps itself to the muzzle (crown) of a Rifle and it somehow comes up with a condition that allows boresighting to be accomplished?
I don't know how.
I don't care.
I do now know that it does work!
I have now "boresighted" 17, 20, 22 and 24 caliber Rifles now with this Leupold product. 6 Rifles in all!
I have been VERY happy (and surprised!) with the quality of performance the Leupold has given me! On paper in each case!
I have even tested my tried and true old Bushnell boresighting "readings" with the Leupolds "readings" (in the 22 and 24 caliber Rifles I have done to date!).
The readings were also surprisingly "close" to each others!
In other words when the Bushnell said dead center the Leupold was also very close to dead center! The Leupold was used both first and then secondly on each 22 and 24 caliber Rifle! When I would set up the spud system Bushnell boresighter the scope would be within one "grid" square distance both horizontally and vertically of the Leupold obtained "boresighting" scope setting.
The only test I can think of to further compare the Leupold and the Bushnell would have been to boresight and then shoot for comparison, with the broesighting results each showed. Then see which boresighting method was closer to dead on at 100 yards.
I just did not have time and the results were so close (on the respective optical grids of the boresighting units) I don't think it would be neccessary or show significant difference.
I am not going to throw away my Bushnell unit just yet but this amount of testing and my happiness with the results with the Leupold I thought would be worth reporting.
Any questions I can answer for you I would be glad to do so.
I would also like to hear any of your experiences with this type boresighter.
Also this, the retail price at the place I bought my Leupold was $73.95. It was, I found out later, made in China!
I tend to try to buy Made In America products when possible. But I am so happy with this product I am glad I bought it.
I will continue to monitor the "results" from this new product and it just takes a couple of minutes to compare it with the Bushnell's performance (when possible!) and will report back in a few months.
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I looked at one on Midwayusa.com site before but was not impressed besides they are out of stock. It looks like a ruler and even though they say some what how it works a picture of it on a rifle would be better.

I have wasted so much ammo trying to get on target even with looking down the bore of my rifle and adjusting the scope accordingly. Since the range I shoot at is only paper targets I burned almost 40 rounds at 100 yards just to find I was off to the right about 16" some dumb ass had shot the foam target insert with a shotgun.

I will have to get an up close and personal look at one of these maybe at Gander Mountain if they have one.

Thanks for the report with the cost of ammo and the limited time I have to shoot I believe it will be worth the cost.


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I've played with one helping out at the gun shop mounting scopes too--it gives the result we are looking for--first shot on paper at 100 yds. That is all we should expect out of a boresighter.


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Dustoffer & Swede 44 Mag: I late last night completed the 7th Rifle to be boresighted with this new Leupold tool!
This Rifle is a Ruger 77 V/T in 223 caliber. I used both boresighters again and their comparative "bore sighting" alignments were again very close. I went with the final bore sight of the Leupold and this morning I went to my range with this Rifle.
In the rain the first shot from this Leupold tool "bore sighted" Rifle I was 6 1/2" low right (from my aiming point) with the first shot!
Well onto the 14" X 14" target paper!
Again I have no idea how this device works and frankly don't need to know. I am becoming certain that it is a good tool for its designed purpose.
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glad for the information, always wondered about the magnetic Leopold and hi price but none of my cheaper mechanical or laser bore sighters will put me on paper, pretty aggrevating
 
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Have no complaint with mine. Although have not used it as much. Easy to use and I'm not cramming a spud in the muzzel of my guns.

I scanned the small slip of paper that Leupold includes for sight in reference and pasted it on my range target notes and also set up a sheet of business cards.
 
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Talk about not understanding--I have a 35mm camera with auto focus. It has a series of small boxes that you see when you look through the viewfinder. It focuses on whatever is in the box you are looking at---don't ask me to 'splain it-I can't. But if you are looking down a shooting lane and there is a doe at 25 yds in the left box and a buck at 100 in the center box, and a feral hog somewhere in between in the middle box, when you move your eye (not the camera) from box to box, it focuses on that animal. This is one of the "you gotta believe" things.


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VG, when you mentioned a few weeks ago that you had bought one I was hoping you would have had bad luck with it.

Darn! Now I gotta buy one... Big Grin


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