Lasers

[Sim G]

I've never been one for lasers on guns. I think they look good in the movies but discounted them wholly as being of any use. However....

A mate of mine has lent me a Sightmark holographic scope that actually has a laser unit attached to the side of the scope. I didn't give it much thought as one, I wanted to see how the "cheaper" holo sight would stand up and secondly, the laser had run out of batteries.

So, I've had a few outings with the scope on my S&W and was giving the gun a clean. I just happened to look in the battery compartment and saw they needed LR44's. I had two in my drawer. In the garage it works nicely! Switch the lights out and it's like "Mission Impossible"...... tongueout

Zero'd it at the range tonight.....
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Bu**er me, it's great fun!!! clapclap

At 25m, the dot is nice and bright and not too small. Probably about an inch covering the target. Head held high, press the trigger, the rounds go where they should! I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I was!

Going to be fun playing with this for a while longer. Would I have one myself....... now I'm really not so sure! emrolleyes

[TJC]

pics ?

[Dangermouse]

I use to use a laser back when I hunted with an air rifle. I quickly realised that it had more benefits depending how you set it up.
If you set it up at the same POI as the scope, and you had the laser mounted directly above or directly below the scope/barrel, you could check your distance by how much difference there was between the laser dot and the cross hairs. with a little practise on a open field you quickly worked out at what distances the dot would move from above to below (depending how you had it mounted).

Or alternatively you could set the laser up at a second known distance, giving you two zeros on one rifle. Perhaps your closest likely range and your furthest comfortable range.

I also found when using a night scope that they worked as a light source and came in to their own. On one occasion providing light to get the night vision device working far beyond what was possible with the built in device. Well beyond any possible shot but it gave the option of scanning hills on the far side of a valley etc,

DM