How do i set up a lazersight that is mounted on top of a rifle? it would have to be at an angle? how do i make it accurate from any distance?!
You don't. If you angle the laser, the path of the beam will intersect the path of the projectile fired from the rifle at one point (probably, unless you're shooting at a slightly upward angle and the laser is pointed straight, then the projectile will cross the path of the laser once as it rises, then again as it comes back down.). You've got basically two options. Either you zero the site at a certain distance, say 25 yards. Then you realize that the dot made by the laser is where your projectile is going to hit at 25 yards and the more you change that distance from your target the further off that point of impact will be. The other option is to mount it in such a way as to have the path of the laser beam parallel with the path of the projectile as it exits the barrel. Then just account for the fact the the point of impact will be that distance below the dot. Well, to a point anyway. After a while the bullet will be affected by gravity more and start to drop, but that's probably going to happen around the same time the dot from the laser loses focus.
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