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How To Cold Bore Sight A Red Dot with Navy SEAL Mark “Coch” Cochiolo

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Retired Navy SEAL Mark “Coch” Cochiolo demonstrates how to cold bore sight a red dot. Bore sighting is another way to zero your red dot so that your shots hit somewhere near your intended point of impact.

Keep in mind, that this is not a precise zeroing process. Cold bore sighting is another method to ‘get on paper’ similar to the method shown by retired Army Ranger, Dave Steinbach. (

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28 COMMENTS

  1. So when cold sighting should I be doing it at 50 yards or 25, I just shoot for fun but I can’t seem to hit paper at 100 yards😂 so if I zero at 50 will it be close enough 🤣 I’m new to sighting in usually dad did it but he’s gone now and he didn’t teach me

  2. This is fantastic! I just added a red dot to an AR15 and was so worried about having to clamp it down so I could adjust the sight without moving where the barrel was pointed at. It never occurred to me that it doesn't matter. I love the simple explanation and sticking with the basics.

  3. Mark this is so basic and incredibly elementary. I’ve never thought of removing upper and getting my rough BZO this way. I mess with lasers and and tapes and yada yada so on so forth and this quickly works so god damn well in half the time. Way smart brother. My Frogman Buddy Frank Montanyo retired Warrant turned me on to the Sig Optics – great optics I ain’t got to sell a kidney to acquire. Thank you. Blue Skies
    Michael Munn

  4. I have a reflex sight and with a boresight I just matched it up using the longest hallway in my house…. Approximately 35 paces in a shotgun style house… Long hallway with rooms on either side. Not sure how this will translate to target practice at the range. Am I gonna look like a crazy man blasting off at a target such a short distance on a rifle range?

  5. Went to the range today with a 105, hadnt seen your vid yet but I was aiming low towards the right waste line and hit anwhere from center mass to the head with the red dot.

    I like that I was hitting the target but I didnt like that I to adjust to the center/head because my sights not zero and my gun didnt come with rear iron sights.

  6. Outstanding guide that every shooter should be aware of. You don’t always have a laser or zeroed sights to start with. This approach is great b/c it can be done in the garage or field whenever needed . And testing with ammo adds too many variables.

  7. Was taught this back in 2007 in my first platoon. Went into a sew shop right outside of Schofield and found a 5.56 bore laser for $5, I swear by using lasers to bore sight optics before going to the range now. You just want to set up a target at the desired range that you plan on zeroing at the range when you boresight with your laser.

  8. I actually boresighted my irons the night before we did group and zeroing in basic.

    I used the farthest street lamp I could see through the barracks window to zero up with. The light was easy to center through the bore.

    I shot a total of 6 rounds the next day lol.

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