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Posted: 7/18/2011 11:40:44 PM EDT
| I have a dmps lower/colt upper with stock A2 front sight and a midwest ind rear sight. I was using a laserlyte bore sight to try and zero my weapon today in my back yard and I cannot seem to get a proper zero. When looking through the sight picture the laser dot appears to be halfway down to 3/4 of the way down my post. I have tried adjust the post down as far as I can but it just doesn't seem to be enough. What am I doing wrong? |
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Your laser is probably your problem. Those things have to be precision spun to be accurate, just get the base of your front sight flush and put your rear sight in the middle that will get you on paper from there its easy. Bang bang bang, check your group, adjust, repeat until your on. |
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sounds like you may have a front sight base designed for the fixed rear sight- detatchable handles and flip ups may not align properly with a front sight in a non F marked(proper height) base.
having said that the only way to really zero a gun is with ammo. all the fancy boresighters -even the fancy kit that the .gov has in stock is only gonig to give you an approximation. I have seen guns "zeroed" with a bore sighter that were not even close when on the range and vice versa. |
| shoot some battle ammo to zero the gun in properly. zero at 25 meters, then at 50 meters. if it won't zero, it's your sights, but I bet it's your laser. bore sighting works ok if your laser is the 100.00 type. Those 25.00 bore lasers are a crap shot. I know you think your going to save time and money by using a laser bore sight, but you could've bought 6 boxes of ammo to actually zero in the gun and had some fun shooting it too. bore sight tools don't work well, none of them do. best just to use ammo. ask anyone. |
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