Over the years I have wasted a fair bit of ammo sighting in rifles for mates and myself or trying to sight in rifles with faulty scopes. I've finally had enough and decided to buy a bore sighter. What are the decent bore sighters out there ? I looking for accuracy and ease of use above price.

never found that a "bore sighted gun" was any better than removing the bolt and looking down the bbl and ligning up the x hairs.
cant help with what brands coz they were done by others gun shops etc.....
greg

Welcome to the forums fpope. I have just bought a laser bore sighter from Cabelas, havn't used it yet so I can't comment on it. Check out cabelas site.

The most common bore sighters seem to be the Tasco and Bushnell ones both seem to work equally well, and while the do the same job as bore sighting by eye they are more useful when changing scopes or checking adjustment range of your scope and the like, and of course for bore sighting on rifles you can't see down the bore of.
I have the Bushnell bore sighter with the expanding mandrels, which I prefer over the mandrels with a spring you have to sometimes force past your crown. I have used both types and both do the same job.

I haven't found my "spud" boresighter worth two bob for sighting in. One shot at real close range usually shows the way.

I use mine mostly to check scopes to watch for correct tracking and return of the X hairs.

EG. On my 77/22, with the rifle shooting spot on at 60M. the bore scope shows it to be over 12" low and 8" to the right. It's not uncommon on centerfires to be well out of wack between where the barrel points and where the base/mounts point.

I use these they are great and easy to use
Laser Bullet

Hi fpope, welcome to AR.

I have one of these, it was given to me as a present and it has be very useful.

I dont know if you can find easily but if you know anyone going to the states or that live there get them to get you one, who knows you are on an international forum, dont know if you dont ask aye

It does all the way from .22 - .50 cal, peice of cake to use, and for what you want it for perfect, and it can keep my cat entertained for hours too !!! he can never seem to catch that red dot

hope this helps
http://www.nightvisionsales.com/product_info.php/products_id/648

regards Runas

I pop the primer out of a fired case (and put the case back into the chamber), and between it and a Mk-1 eyeball get real good results on boresighting. The smaller flash hole acts like a peep sight, and realy cuts down on the error factor and learning curve.

But than again I'm a cheapskate.

Tailgunner that is a new twist using the flash hole!
Not every gun is a bolt action though and we bore sight a lot of lever and pump action rifles.
The old spud type or the newer magnetic Leupold type get you on paper at 25 at least.
We often see the differences between actual and bore sight as well.
They are useful to check scope tracking as mentioned earlier also.

APB
Something my dad left me is a small prisom device that's quite handy for lever and pump guns (it was actually made for that purpose, the glass retracts into a bakalite sleeve for storage), a narrow piece of mirror will also allow you to "see" around a corner.
Besides the boresighting aspect, these devices are also handy for looking into your chamber/bore for broken case necks, fouling and other "eye visable" issues.

Like I said, I'm cheap.

+1 on the magnetic Leupold. It's less expensive than the others mentioned (at least when I bought mine),doesn't use batteires, and it doesn't require a target of known distance. So if you drop your rifle in the field, you can quickly verify or readjust to zero.

Tim