Cool trick

damatheny · Post by **damatheny** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:59 pm

A friend at work asked me to sight in the crossbow he just got because he's kinda new to the whole thing and really screwed up the red dot scope. I said yea bring it in, well I got to thinking I could use my cheap 5 dollar laser pointer.

So I get his Horton and put the laser in the channel under the string to hold the button on, then looking through the truglow it was roughly a mile off both ways so then I moved the windage till it was in line with the laser dot and moved the elevation above the laser about 3" high @15' and took a shot 10 yrds and it was close enough to step back to 20 yrds and fine tune.

This seem to work really well so I thought I would share the idea.
sorry if this has already been brought up.

Dave

one shot scott · Post by **one shot scott** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:08 pm

Its the first time ive heard of it. Thanks for sharing!

groundpounder · Post by **groundpounder** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:16 pm

It does sound like a cool trick that I don't ever remember seeing posted on here. Thanks for the tip.

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:33 pm

OH YES!!!!!

I AH brought it up 9 or 10 times,yeah,that's it.
It was my idea all along

Sorry

Great idea,thank's for sharing.

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:34 pm

Makes sense to me ... like bore-sighting your crossbow.

Airwolf · Post by **Airwolf** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:22 pm

That's an excellent idea!

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:27 am

That may just go down as the number one tip of 2009!

wheelie · Post by **wheelie** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:25 am

hmmmm wonder why I never come up with anything intelligent to say? LOL

fdegurse · Post by **fdegurse** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:00 am

Well done, awesome! I've been on this board for years and this is a first.You get the patent!

Yes bore sighting your crossbow makes sense, but no-one has ever mentioned it!

Now we just need you to come up with some arrow and broadhead ballistic charts to go with your laser pen.

Stash · Post by **Stash** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:23 am

You can have the patent because you for posted it first,

but I made one several years ago at the store. Laser boresighter stuck inside a piece of arrow shaft, then placed on the rail under the string.

On an Excalibur, just align the crosshairs so the laser dot is just above the top chevron, and that will get you pretty close with the main crosshair at 20 yards.

But we stopped using it because 9 times out of 10 the scope is close enough right out of the box to put an arrow on the target block. Maybe I'll take it out of retirement for the last busy weekends before Christmas...

Galgo · Post by **Galgo** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:05 am

You can use a boresighting tool the same way - gets you close.

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Hoss · Post by **Hoss** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:45 am

good idea to help him out

hetichunter · Post by **hetichunter** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:04 pm

great idea

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