Bench Shooting Setups

[BK]

...a collimeter (bore sighter) won't do anything you can't do w/ a steady rest, lining up the bore w/ the reticles, & even the best bore sighter doesn't really do much more than put you on paper @ 25yds. so you can begin to sight-in. Bore Sighting does not replace sighting-in...

Well, I'm a land surveyor, and part of being a land survyor is all the cool toys you get to play with... hence the desire for a collimeter.

...nothing wrong w/ 'em if you want one, as long as you remember it'll get to the stake, but it won't put you on the point...

Right. Besides, that would take away some of the fun shooting!

Totally OT, but I was in a gunshop West of Portland about 15 years ago. There was a guy jaw-jacking with one of the counter guys, and among the fanciful tails this jackwagon spun was a story about only boresighting a Browning A-Bolt and then lighting up a deer at 400+ yards. This was after telling a whopper about how he liked to use a 10 shot extended magazine in his Remington pump rifle. Legal, but what is the point? Try to get it in the first four or five shots, huh? I made a comment about being an irresponsible putz for shooting at a deer that far away with a rifle he had not verified zero on and left.

 

[FOTIS]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?p ... ber=394466

Love it. 25 lbs of shot and sits high enough to use Ruger #1 levers, regular levers and long clips in AR's.