Took the NV class at ThunderRanch and we used a 36-yard parallel zero. Everyone was consistently making hits out to 300 yards. It was almost too easy. Just hold center mass and shoot. Target illuminating became difficult past +350 yards with civil powered lasers. As for closer 25-yard ranges you just need to know your holdovers and (minimal) horizontal offset like any other optic mount setup.

Excellent content. Which method does the US military use most often?

@Heywoodthepeckerwood

2 ай бұрын

The worst one. But it easiest for the lowest common denominator. Your best bet would be to Use the other method.

I see tou had the Steiner on the top rail. How does one easily turn it in and off from there or anywhere on an AR platform? I bought one during your sale and have been trying to figure how to usefully mount and activate it on a rifle. In the pistol, no problem.

The way I see it, the bullet is always falling, so with a parallel zero you start off by a couple inches and it gets worse the further you go, with a converging zero you are more of less dead on at your zero distance with gradually increasing error as you go beyond that point. so IMO you are going to be close to the laser in most any realistic distance with converging. But what do I know. I'm just a printer repairman.

@AmazonWebService98

9 ай бұрын

just go to the range, look at the furthers thing and zero the laser to your optic, that few inches isn't going to have any major impact

@thermal_el_jackson

9 ай бұрын

This couldn’t be more wrong. Now I see why so many people don’t understand.

@DaveSmith-cp5kj

9 ай бұрын

You are right in concept, but there are two limiting factors. The first is that night vision really doesn't have that great range. You can see a laser beam for hundreds of yards, but you really can't identify and engage much beyond 200 yards in ideal situations, and in low moonlight situations or overhead cover that can shrink even more. Ultimately your POI really doesn't diverge that much further than your POA unless you have a SMG or something. Like the guy said, it's really a moot difference. The other factor is that in spite of the price of the lasers, they are actually significantly lower quality than your day optic. Recoil will cause your zero to shift exactly like an airsoft optic, so it is far more difficult to maintain that kind of zero. The truth is no one really does a parallel zero, everyone does as AWS8059 said, which is to aim at a distant target and merge your red dot POA with your laser POA. Usually you can actually see the beam trace when looking down it, so you could even aim at the sky and get an "infinite" zero. This is effectively the same as a parallel zero, but most importantly it allows you to check your zero at any time.

@Heywoodthepeckerwood

2 ай бұрын

You are forgetting the horizontal shift of the laser which is not as easy to account for as is drop. Especially if you have a battle zero’d optic. I can account for the drop of my bullet from 50 yards out as far as I can shoot accurately and you should be able to as well pretty intuitively. Can you account for the leftward (assuming a 12:00 mount) shift of a converging zero from 25 yards? You would have to account for drop an windage if you ever shoot at distance. The only converging zero I would use is an infinite zero as explained by those above. I’ve done it and I think it’s the best all around way to zero an ir laser.