Anyone here into firearms?

SgtGoldy · 08-26-2014, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z

I haven't been very impressed with laser sights. I have tried them on home-protection handguns and 1) you have to remember to turn them on in a tense situation and 2) they give away your position. Seems to me to be like racking a pump shotgun - more for effect on the person on the wrong end than anything else. If I'm protecting my home, my goal is not to scare you.

YMMV

I've removed the laser sights from all my handguns except a BB pistol.

My home protection gun is a Glock 21SF with a TLR2 laser/light mounted to my rail.

I have once had to clear my house with it (heard a window break middle of the night. Come to find out it was just kids that threw a rock through it). I didn't turn the light or laser on cause my eyes were adjusted to the dark. I can see using it though, which is why I keep it on the gun. I rather have it there and not need the light rather than need it and not have it.

MacCool · 08-26-2014, 12:12 PM

I've never bothered with bore-sighting. I sight in a scope from short distances to get it one paper, then move outward. On my rifles with RDS, I just move the dot to co-witness with the irons, if the rifle has irons (not all of my AR's do).

I don't use lasers on my firearms...never found it useful. I do occasionally mount lights. I have some conventional lights I can mount with a QD picatinney mount, but more often I just use my good ol' TLR-1 on my ARs and on my pistols. I don't keep them on the guns all the time, I just keep the light in the safe with the guns.

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08-26-2014, 12:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
MacCool A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Midwest Posts: 1,349 Drives: 370Z PW 2014 Rep Power: 17	I've never bothered with bore-sighting. I sight in a scope from short distances to get it one paper, then move outward. On my rifles with RDS, I just move the dot to co-witness with the irons, if the rifle has irons (not all of my AR's do). I don't use lasers on my firearms...never found it useful. I do occasionally mount lights. I have some conventional lights I can mount with a QD picatinney mount, but more often I just use my good ol' TLR-1 on my ARs and on my pistols. I don't keep them on the guns all the time, I just keep the light in the safe with the guns. / Last edited by MacCool; 08-26-2014 at 12:18 PM.