Thread: Laser sights?

Stay away from the TM rubbish I reckon.



Got one of these for $60, and it works as well as a $60 scope should do



The laser helped line up for a finishing off shot (translation : lazy). Optics are appalling, windage adjustment has no direction arrows so I just cranked it for sighting in to see where it would go, and it has a flimsy elevation adjustment that isn't locked down and is easily bumped, with 1 -5 numbered increment (I assumed for adjusting to shoot from 100 yards to 500 yards). The scope will be used in my own Mythbusters experiment one day to see if I can shoot through the scope itself.

However the green laser I used to have on my other rifle (the Deal Extreme one) in conjunction with a Hawke scope was very helpful at helping with range finding. And that's one advantage they have if you're after something that accurate and necessary.

Serious Shooters sell the Nikko Stirling 3-9x42 Mil Dot for $170 which is about as budget as you can go for a scope with a built in laser.

But personally I wouldn't buy something like a scope off TM, a shop has a huge advantage in being able to go in, pick it up and look through it. If you're lucky, some nice shops like Wills Hunting and Fishing on North Shore will even mount it for you and boresight it in.