The last message I had in this category was having sanded my rifle forearm about 1/8 of an inch to get it away from touching the barrel of my rifle.  Since then the rifle has been in storage and waiting patiently for my return.

I borrowed two different bore sighters from Fat Duck today and employed them both just to see the difference.

Don’t get me wrong because I don’t know which one will get me on paper the best but here are my results.

One is a Cabela’s brand Lazer jobbie that has multiple caliber adapters and could fit into most any caliber gun.  You attach a small plastic tip to the end of the pointer and insert it into the muzzle end of the barrel and then turn it until it’s tight.  Turn on the light and you are ready to go.  It is a simple thing and worked rather well if you ask me.  The down side was I could only scope out to 25 yards with it, which according to all the web sites I’ve been on is plenty of distance and the additional 75 yards you will shoot to zero the rifle should still allow the bullet to hit paper.

So, I took my time and really fine tuned the scope to that little red dot out there at my measured 25 yards.  The scope wasn’t that far off considering what I had done to the stock.  The instructions said that if I did this the bullet would hit the paper out at 100 yards.

I was happy with what I had done and so I put the thing away.

Just out of curiosity I then got out the Bushnell bore sighter, found the insert that fit my 7 mm and set it up according to the instructions.  After getting the scope cross hairs lined up with the sighter system cross hairs (horizontal and verticle) but not necessarily exactly one on top of the other so that the cross hairs aligned, I counted the squares that my scopes cross hairs were off from the sighters cross hairs.  Each square represents a 4 inch distance from the center of the bore of the rifle at 100 yards.

My scope said that my bullet would hit 6 squares to the right and 3 1/2 squares high!  People, that’s 24 inches to the right and 14 inches high!!!!  I would have to be shooting at a refrigerator box layed on its side in order to hit it!

I was sort of beside myself at the difference between the lazer and this other one.  I ponder splitting the difference and moving my cross hairs half the distance to this systems zero, but then said, what the heck and moved my cross hairs to the center of the systems cross hairs.

While reading the instructions it said that if the scopes cross horizontal hairs fall below the horizontal cross hairs on the system that it will hit 4 inches high per square at 100 yards.  So in reality what I saw was my scope would hit 24 inches to the right and 14 inches low, because the scopes cross hairs were above the systems horizontal cross hair line.

Not being a scope shooter, this is crazy thinking to me.  It makes sense to me that if I see the cross hairs above it should be aiming above and if it’s right it’s right and if it’s left it’s left.  The paperwork said nothing about if the scope cross hair is to the right of the vertical that it would hit left of the target at 100 yards and so I trust that common logic hold true here and that right means right and left means left.

I have still not wrapped my head around the high means low and low means high stuff.

So, whenever I do finally get to the range to shoot, I’ll have you on my side about which bore sighter was the more accurate.  Remember I was 6 squares to the right and 3 1/2 squares high, in my view.  Don’t get confused with the 24 inches right and 14 inches low stuff.  When I get finished zeroing my rifle I’ll put the Bushnell system back into the bore and look again at the scope settings as compared to the systems cross hairs and report just where I had to move the scope to zero it.  We may find that the lazer was the king and we opted for a queen (or Joker).

Bears Butt

August 13, 2013