Great advice for a bolt rifle. However, how do you propose accomplishing that feat on a BLR, Models 94, 36, 71 or Rem semi-auto? There are others that I did not mention for time’s sake.
I’m a gunsmith and use the exact laser boresighter pictured. The failure of that shooter to follow proper gun safety procedure was the cause of that flowering barrel. Calling the inanimate object a “wretched thing” is kinda like blaming the spoon for Rosie O’Donuts yard wide backside.
I believe the shooter in that case was okay and think that someone hyped up the story with the addition of the emergency patient on the litter.
Well, speaking for myself, I don’t put scopes on lever guns, so that hasn’t been a problem, and all other rifles which are not bolt guns (Contender, AR-15, falling block) all seem to allow me access in one way or another. I can hit most anything I want to out to 200 yards with the iron sights on a BLR and once I owned a BLR, I never brought the Win94 out of the cabinet again.
The only rifle where it might one day be an issue for me is a M1A.
I think such widgets are just a distraction. It is so easy to sight in a scope either by direct bore sighting, or by starting on paper at 25 yards, that I’m really at a loss why they sell so well. I’d rather put that $140 into a new trigger group or into better glassware... or a chrony... or (insert any one of a zillion other shooting expenditures)