CenterPoint Laser Boresighter

To my fellow air gunners:Heres the skinnyIt's worth the money in my opinion but it has its flaws.The difficulty in using this style of device lies in its length. Its very short and when attempting to use it to rough-sight a new scope or one that simply needs (re)calibration, the caliber probe only goes in a few inches. That's fine if you're sighting in a gun without an integral silencer but in the case of many air guns their complicated muzzles prove frustrating.Here's how to correctly use it in an air gun with an integral silencer:First make sure you're firearm is Unloaded and that the safety is ON.Next you want to start with the "appropriate" correlating caliber attachment and gently insert it into the muzzle and fully seat it by pushing the laser inward until it gently wedges into the muzzle.It doesn't seat very well but it doesn't need to. This is only meant to get you within a 2-3 inch radius at about 50 yards.After making sure it seats comfortably remove it and try the attachment that is next in line (if you have a .177 try the .22 attachment, if you have a .22 try the .25 and so on). I have a .22 that took a .357 attachment.WARNING: The insides of many of the integral silencers are sensitive and should be handled with extreme tender love and care :)You don't want to force a large attachment in there and damage your IS so make sure to be gentle when trying out consecutively larger attachments.Once you find the attachment that provides a snug fit (regardless of your caliber) and you use it to sight your scope remove it and shoot 5 pellets at a fresh target and then start using your scope adjustments to zero in. Again this device is only meant to get you close, it's not magic.It worked well for my Umarex Fuel, on my Stoeger Arms x20s, for my Benjamin Marauders, and for my Evanix Max Bullpup.

Seems to be a nice little Boresighter for the price. Works good. The little rubber adapters fit a wide range of calibers. For those reviews that say they don't fit--well, some folks couldn't figure out how to run a pair of pliers! You tighten the adapter to where it just has a light snug fit and then GENTLY insert into the barrel. Honestly, it works about as well, and is much more convenient than those units that use O-rings. The battery polarity is CLEARLY MARKED--so if you put the batteries in backwards you didn't read! No case, so you'll need to find a small box to keep the unit in. Batteries are common, and inexpensive. This works fine for getting your sights or scope very close--within a couple inches or less at 100 yds. depending on the firearm. Use at about 15 to 30 yds indoors, and then you should just need to sight in slightly for elevation, to the specific load you are shooting. If you want to have it near-perfect, and sighted to specific trajectory, then you'll want a Site-Lite--but be prepared to spend a LOT more money for that extra 1-2 inches of precision. The CenterPoint unit is not terribly rugged, so treat it gently, but overall, it works fine if you use some sense.

I would have given this a 5 Star Rating, but 1 of the 3 batteries was dead out of the box. Thankfully I had more batteries handy.Okay, so there is one (1) other caveat before I get to how great this CenterPoint was over other Laser Bore Sighters I've had in the past...and that is this...it does NOT have the most intuitive ON/OFF switch. Plus, it is a lil' odd or strange with how a person loads the batteries by pushing it up and into the laser. So other than that...this is GREAT Boresighter...especially for the minimal money expended.This CenterPoint Laser Bore Sight has fantastic tips, that are quality. I can tell already that they would never get stuck on either the bore sight itself, or in a gun's barrel either (and if a person is worried just put a lil' Ballistol on the tip). But again these are much higher quality than other boresighters, and in sharp contrast to the last bore sighter that I'd just sent back (which was the ADAFAZ Green Bore Sight Kit)...the tips that came with that ADAFAZ were terrible (they seemed fine at first but then the ADAFAZ screws striped when trying to remove them...i.e. they got stuck when attached, and the tips could also slide over the screws too...it was crazy and more expensive than this CenterPoint).So, these CenterPoint tips expand and contract like a mini load leveling airlift bag system for a truck's rear suspension (that's what they reminded me of).Anyway, I was able to bore sight my new Umarex Trevox Pistol that has a baffle and silencer on it where the silencer is much bigger than the .177 (the previously mentioned ADAFAZ Sighter could NOT handle this gun). Yet, the CenterPoint "stem" is not long enough to reach the barrel itself, but the silencer must be perfect because it still worked like a charm with the next size up tip. Now, would it be nice if the stem of the CenterPoint was a lil' longer or perhaps had an extension...sure it would. But it still worked for me with my "odd" Umarex Trevox, and to did its job.Next, I put the CenterPoint in my brand new Umarex Synergis .177 Rifle and it worked great with a UTG 4-16X40 AO IR Scope (got very close with my first shot!!!Next just to test it further...I put the CenterPoint into both of my S&W M&P 9mm Shields (both had previously been sighted in, and again the boresighter matched up).So I have Crimson Trace Green Lasers on my 2 Shields and Mossberg Tactical...and so I know a Green Laser is MUCH easier to see if in the sunlight. So with the CenterPoint (it is a Red Laser)...so I did use it indoors before going outside to confirm. But when I got outside, it had done such a good job...I was sighted in on my new Airguns in no time at all!Hopes this helps a few other!

As many have noted in previous reviews, this isn't very accurate at all. possibly due to being a low quality product, or maybe due to the laser losing it's alignment during shipping.. I don't know. I do know that it threw off my original zeroing by almost 8 inches at 25 yards. That's a pretty significant deviation from where I was originally hitting black on a target.Turns out the laser on this device isn't aligned properly. once in the rifle, one can notice the laser moving in large circular patterns when rotating. a slight deviation would be acceptable, but it is what it is. n

Not bad for the money I guess. The arbor for the .177 is loose in the barrel though, so it only gets you reasonably close, then you still have to paper sight..it was a good 10-12 inches out. The 22 was good. My son used it on his 30-06 and said it was very good. Don't need it much, seems better at larger calibres. If I was heavy into guns I would spend more to get something better...light use probably ok.

This bore sighter is hard to turn on and off and when I zeroed my pellet rifle scope with it at 50 feet I couldn't even hit the target at all. I sighted in the scopes on my 2 x 22 calibre rifles already and hope I don't have the same disastrous results on my first shoot at the local range.

Bore sighted 3 rifles with this. Not one was within a yard of hitting the target.

Great product, worked like advertised. The only issue was was with the .177 attachment, the rubber rings that fit it snug in the barrel are to soft and break easily, which is what happened to mine, all was fixed with some heat shrink tubing, all worked great after that.

no case for the different parts