Side Mounted Laser Sight for Revolvers

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Having a laser on your firearm as a backup or tertiary sighting device is a great option. And for a long time the only way to get a conveniently mounted laser on to a revolver was the laser grip. Well, laser light has come out with a new product. One that I haven't used before. One I have never installed before and in fact, this is probably one of the first production ones ever and this is a side mount laser. The side mount laser is actually designed to attach directly to the side plate of your compact revolver. This one happens to be a Smith and Wesson revolver. So, we're gonna go through the process of mounting this and actually try it out and see how it works. Of course, I've had a laser on this revolver already for quite some time. I'm gonna go ahead and remove this set of laser grips. It's relatively easy to do. Having a laser as a backup device especially on this small firearm is really a great idea especially when it can be completely unobtrusive and not get in the way of the use of a holster or reloading or anything else you're gonna need to do. You're not gonna have to worry about having a mount out on the front of the firearm or certainly not out on the trigger guard like you might've had to in earlier decades. We remove this set of laser grips. Make sure we keep our batteries with that. So, I'm gonna set that grip aside for a second though and actually go ahead and take the side plate screws off, of the firearm. And what's important to remember is that we're not gonna mess with the internals of the firearm at all. We're not gonna get into the revolver itself and we're not gonna take this side plate off. We're simply gonna be replacing the screws that hold the side plate in place. And on this particular revolver we're not even going to take off the third screw. There's one other screw here up towards the front on this side plate and we're not going to remove it at all. Again, we wanna keep these with our other parts and we may wanna put back on there at some point. So, now place the side mount laser make sure that it's aligned properly with the screws that we removed. Now, these are gonna be slightly different than the factory screws themselves. And in fact, these use an Allen wrench instead of the flathead screwdriver. We can see already that the side mount laser isn't gonna interfere with our replacement grip. It's also not gonna interfere with being able to put our finger in one place here above the trigger when we're actually in our ready position. As we look at this, of course we can see that it's also not gonna interfere with opening the cylinder at all. We wouldn't wanna put anything on a defensive revolver that was gonna interfere with the opening or closing of the cylinder. And I don't just mean blocking it of course, we probably, aren't gonna find too many accessories that are designed to block that but we don't want something that's gonna get in the way and make it very cumbersome to get into. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and close these down. You might wanna use some type of lock tight to make these more permanent mounting solution. Once you're sure that you actually wanna keep the side mount laser on your revolver. Again today, this is the first time I'm putting it on so, rather than go ahead and lock tight it down now I wanna add the option of removing it in case this doesn't work or I find it to be inconvenient or even just not very efficient. With a good little snap. And now we have our soft rubber grips and our side mount laser in place. Now, when I open this back up I can point it around and you can see that it requires a thumb motion to actually come up and hit on the back. Turn that button on. You can see that button right back here. It's actually a wedge shaped button so that when you put that thumb down on top of it you hit it very quickly and easily. And then we go ahead and we see that, that red laser dot is on. If I hit it again, it's gonna go to a flashing dot and if I hit it a third time it's gonna turn it off. So, I can be in my ready position and I can decide that I actually need that laser to be on reach my thumb over, turn it on. I see the dot. I can hit it a second time. I know I have a flashing dot or I can hit it a third time and turn it off. If I wanted the flashing dot to start as my primary response I simply bring my thumb over. Don't need to look, feel it, hit it twice. If I were looking down range, I would see the flashing dot and then again, I can turn it off very conveniently. So, now let's go to the range and try out our laser light side mount laser. Okay, so we're back on the ranges here at Black Wing Shooting Center and I've got my side mount laser. This is gonna be my first shooting session with the side mount laser and we're gonna go ahead and start from an extended position. Now, normally when I train with a laser sighting device I'm gonna be in some kind of a compromised position. There's going to be some unorthodox reason for me to need the laser as my aiming device maybe a compressed position. Because I've never shot this laser before I'm gonna shoot an extension the first couple of times we're gonna see what happens and I'll bring it back in finish up with a compressed situation. Again, we see that because this is the first time we're shooting this laser on this firearm we don't know exactly where our point of impact is gonna be relative to our point of aim. We can see the shots are pretty consistently off to the right, just a little bit low. Let's try it from the compressed position anyway and let's just see where we are. Again, from the compressed position, less support less accuracy capability. We know that we're off to the right and low again with those two shots as well. Reach over turn the side mount laser off. I'm gonna go ahead and eject these rounds and we're gonna go ahead and stay in an empty position. We're gonna make sure that the gun is completely unloaded and we're gonna keep the cylinder open because now administratively I'm gonna go ahead and make some adjustments and see if we can get that group to be exactly where we want it to be. Okay, so I've made some adjustments put a few rounds into the revolver and take a look and see where we are. You can see I've definitely made up for the windage. I'm gonna go ahead and unload the firearm and see if we can work on the elevation. Made an adjustment there. Let me go ahead and load the firearm again and see how that looks. And now with one more round we'll go from our compressed shooting position and see if this laser is now set up appropriately to help us in this close quarters situation where we can't extend we've been injured, confined space or another situation where we wanna make sure that we have an idea where our point of impact is gonna be without having our normal fully extended point of aim. And that certainly from a defensive purpose combat accurate but laser light side mount laser is another option what we have here to mount the laser on the revolver and not interfere with our ability to put any kind of grip we want on there or use it in any kind of a standard defensive holster. And of course it is very convenient, easy to use flipping that thumb over for one side or another to go from the off mode to the on mode, to our flash mode or then again to turn it off. Take a look at the laser light side mount laser is an option for your defensive revolver. 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