I was looking at a "Bushnell Laser Boresighter, Battery Powered, with Arbors for .22 through .50 Caliber Firearms & Shotguns" at http://www.adorama.com/BS740100C.html and was wondering if anyone had one of these and if it was useful for dry fire training. Seems like it might be worth the roughly $30. Opinions please. Thanks.

I have that model at home. While using it to boresight, I find myself using it as a tool to concentrate on where the POI would be. I guess you could call this dry fire training, except I don't dry fire any of my firearms. This will also work with a compensator at the end of a barrel that is pinned. I know some other boresights don't have a long enough piece to hold it firmly in the barrel.

I tried to boresight my rifle at 100 yards and I could not see the dot on the target. I'd need to use a spotting scope. For now I will sight it at 25 or 50 yards using an trajectory conversion table with a 100 or 200 yard zero and then use ammo at 100 yards to see if the POI is accurate per the table.

My idea was using it at 7 to 10 yards in a pistol to be able to see what sort of motion I might be causing during dry firing. My thought process is that might give me more useful feedback than placing a used shell casing on the slide to see if it moves. What do you think?

My idea was using it at 7 to 10 yards in a pistol to be able to see what sort of motion I might be causing during dry firing. My thought process is that might give me more useful feedback than placing a used shell casing on the slide to see if it moves. What do you think?

Maybe setup a video camera of phone showing what the laser I doing. That way you won't concentrate on the laser, then you could go back an review the video to see how much it might be moving.

If you want to use a laser for dry fire practice look at the Laserlyte system, can be found in multiple calibers and you can get a special target to record your shots.

 

 

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