rifle lazers

[shitzu 0]

hows it going lads i do a fair bit with the rifle just small game though rabbits and foxes i was thinking about these laser scopes that have the dot on your target are they as goods as the ads say or a waste of cash . all replys welcome thanks

[BEARINATOR 2,867]

I've had a couple for the airguns and in my experience they aren't that good although they were cheap at £30 and £50, i ended up giving the £30 one away, i still have the other one for rats and pigeons in barns, i would save your money and get something else

[hiho 5]

they can be yusful but it depends on what kind of shooting you do http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=72329

[ghillies 209]

reflex sights? a tube or a little window with a red dot on it.. theyre ok close up, if your already fluent with your gun, and do get awful quick to use, the problem is the size of the dot, the one i used covered a hole rabbit and then some at 50 yards... 25 yards though.. wow! a fast bird coming into to land can be wapped by touch down from slung on the shoulder lol...

 

lasers, as in the red laser unit... best strapped on your barrel as close to the bore line as pos for close up stuff.. sort of 2 or 3 yards to 20-25 yards with a light .177 pellet...

[Deker 3,478]

It ain't the movies.....close, they may have a (limited) use, but zero is critical.....longer range a waste of space....

[Malt 379]

I think the only use they have at distance, would be for range finding.

[ghillies 209]

heres wat hapens with a laser.. first is mounted on the barrel to the side, (its a nats gooley to left at 2 yards and the cheap 5 quid laser from fleabay diverges enough at 20 yards(gets bigger) to not worry about the POI being left by a nats gooley.. but its close enough to be bang on the pellet tragectry in between to use from the hip with NV goggles (about half inch max).... the beam spot disapears by day after 15 ish yards (need a bright green one for daytime use).

 

note the laser heights on each image. (having the laser below the bore gives less use as an aim point, the further below the worse it is!).

 

 

raise the laser height and zero to get the laser on the tragectry as an aim point at 20-35 yards (bare in mind even placed directly above the bore line the beam will diverge, and a cheaper red laser will start to disapear for defonate in sunlight, so you'll be looking through your scope for it, but yup would work i'sh for distance gauging.. so long as the dot is'nt too big towards 35 yards....) remember hold over and hold under with a laser takes the aim point off the target can put it several feet behind, or nearer too than you'd think.

 

 

heres the laser set for the 35-55 yard region.. unles you pay 100 squids or more the dots huge at these ranges, and very hard to see by day if at all, a cheap one is a pritty bad aim point beyond 20 yards...(and at around 8 inch's above the bore you can carry it about ty lol....)

 

 

 

i've tried them for range estamating, but unles you've got some serious high mount the amount the laser apears to move on the ret isnt quite enough to tell you more than a gues would.

 

edited in... for barrel mounting a rubber band as a clamp, and some point to put it against is easy enough, like the air gun cylider and barrel has a grove there.. find the laser zero on the ret, e.g. if the zero is to be 17 yards, pace it out, put something there like a torch, wind the laser spot to the ret point/dot and its set up no shots fired, takes a few seconds to a couple minutes. NOTE. a presure switch is best.. leaving it switched on means it's bouncing all over the place as you walk! mind yu NV gear, it wont like a bounce back laser beam through it's tube.

(for ease if your IR illuminater or lamp has a spot in the center of its beam then set the IR so the laser spots in the middle at a mid range, closer too or further away than the center distance it'll apear higher or lower inside the IR center spot..

 

have fun, it works a treat.

Edited February 11, 2009 by ghillies

[Guest noluv6]

I think the only use they have at distance, would be for range finding.

 

this is what i use mine for.

I zero at 30 and can tell if target is with in my zero or out and how far.

Also good for night vision monoculars mounted as a scope,use the laser as a aiming dot.

they have there advantage's.

size of dot at certain range is critical and why most of them are cheap.cheap because the dot is way to big.

[paulk73 151]

was thinking about these for low light rat shooting.

i understand the physics behind it, but surely they would be great for shooting over pre baited spots from pre-determined shooting. ie baited up area, and shooting spot paced out and zeroed and same again, next bait placed and paced out to the same range for the shooting spot?

[clint 45]

heres wat hapens with a laser.. first is mounted on the barrel to the side, (its a nats gooley to left at 2 yards and the cheap 5 quid laser from fleabay diverges enough at 20 yards(gets bigger) to not worry about the POI being left by a nats gooley.. but its close enough to be bang on the pellet tragectry in between to use from the hip with NV goggles (about half inch max).... the beam spot disapears by day after 15 ish yards (need a bright green one for daytime use).

 

note the laser heights on each image. (having the laser below the bore gives less use as an aim point, the further below the worse it is!).

 

 

raise the laser height and zero to get the laser on the tragectry as an aim point at 20-35 yards (bare in mind even placed directly above the bore line the beam will diverge, and a cheaper red laser will start to disapear for defonate in sunlight, so you'll be looking through your scope for it, but yup would work i'sh for distance gauging.. so long as the dot is'nt too big towards 35 yards....) remember hold over and hold under with a laser takes the aim point off the target can put it several feet behind, or nearer too than you'd think.

 

 

heres the laser set for the 35-55 yard region.. unles you pay 100 squids or more the dots huge at these ranges, and very hard to see by day if at all, a cheap one is a pritty bad aim point beyond 20 yards...(and at around 8 inch's above the bore you can carry it about ty lol....)

 

 

 

i've tried them for range estamating, but unles you've got some serious high mount the amount the laser apears to move on the ret isnt quite enough to tell you more than a gues would.

 

edited in... for barrel mounting a rubber band as a clamp, and some point to put it against is easy enough, like the air gun cylider and barrel has a grove there.. find the laser zero on the ret, e.g. if the zero is to be 17 yards, pace it out, put something there like a torch, wind the laser spot to the ret point/dot and its set up no shots fired, takes a few seconds to a couple minutes. NOTE. a presure switch is best.. leaving it switched on means it's bouncing all over the place as you walk! mind yu NV gear, it wont like a bounce back laser beam through it's tube.

(for ease if your IR illuminater or lamp has a spot in the center of its beam then set the IR so the laser spots in the middle at a mid range, closer too or further away than the center distance it'll apear higher or lower inside the IR center spot..

 

have fun, it works a treat.

 

 

wow, very testicle & well writen. Thanks

[slingshot82 32]

hows it going lads i do a fair bit with the rifle just small game though rabbits and foxes i was thinking about these laser scopes that have the dot on your target are they as goods as the ads say or a waste of cash . all replys welcome thanks

FOXES?

 

Kyle