Pattern Estimating Shotgun Laser?

Durham68 · Post by **Durham68** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:58 pm

Does anyone know if there is a laser built for tactical or HD shotguns that projects the estimated pattern onto the target? Maybe a large center dot with a ring of smaller dots angled slightly out to project a larger pattern the further out the target. Or a single bright center dot with a dimmer, yet visible, ring around it (again increasing in size as distance from the target increases).

Netpackrat · Post by **Netpackrat** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:30 pm

It's called a flashlight.

Durham68 · Post by **Durham68** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:51 pm

I know, I know. I was thinking something that could either be used in addition to a flashlight that had a wider beam... or if used without a flashlight, it wouldn't foul up one's night vision.

Is it that lame of an idea? Too mall ninja for you NPR?

Netpackrat · Post by **Netpackrat** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:01 pm

Durham68 wrote:Too mall ninja for you NPR?

Don't forget you are talking to the guy with a tactical light on his lever action...

Durham68 · Post by **Durham68** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:21 pm

Netpackrat wrote:
Durham68 wrote:Too mall ninja for you NPR?
Don't forget you are talking to the guy with a tactical light on his lever action...

Still looking. Closest I can find is this.

Netpackrat · Post by **Netpackrat** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:00 am

I don't care for their acronym. When you find what you are looking for, you should call it the Shotgun Mounted Illuminated Lethality Estimator, or SMILE (wait for flash).....

Durham68 · Post by **Durham68** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:46 pm

I don't care for their acronym. When you find what you are looking for, you should call it the Shotgun Mounted Illuminated Lethality Estimator, or SMILE (wait for flash).....

I ran that one past my father in law who likes guns and loves word play. He thought it was excellent.

I haven't found one yet. Any ideas on how to put one together DIY?

Post by **Combat Controller** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:40 am

Laser pointers taped together and jammed in the bore? Or, small laser pointers inserted into a spent shell?

Durham68 · Post by **Durham68** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:15 am

CombatController wrote:Or, small laser pointers inserted into a spent shell?

A bunch of laser pointer rigged up with some way to adjust the spread would work... but I was thinking of an actual continuous ring. Like the Sur-c I linked to above, but with a brightly defined ring around the outside that is adjustable for spread.

Seems simple enough to do with two or three lasers and a lens or two. But I don't know the first thing about optics.

Netpackrat · Post by **Netpackrat** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:18 am

Flashlight with a red filter lens. 8^)

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