Anyone here have tips or trick to using a laser as an aiming device?

[kbstingwing]

I used a laser made by Daisy, had it mounted to my Sheridan blue streak .20 rifle, it worked nicely for Rats running on the telephone wires, one problem was they could see the red laser beam and you had to be quick, also they can see green lasers too, maybe a red dot scope would be a better choice? or make a NV setup, I'm working on one using a cheap Car Back up monitor and Cmos FPV camera from Ebay, there's some good NV videos on youtube- DIY NV scopes.

[oldgearhead]

I have a green laser mounted with 3 inch high see through scope rings on my PC77. The the pellets are rising at 5 meters and dropping at about 20 meters. The nice thing was I first sighted in using the iron sights, then just tuned the laser to coincide. Lots of fun but probably worthless for hunting.
Why?
One of the duties of the PC77 is to provide protection for the bird feeder. All I had to do was was send a couple of pellets through a couple of tails and now the squirrels are afraid of the green light and I don't even need to load a pellet to send them on their way... 

[kbstingwing]

that's the problem with a laser, it may work for the first few, but after a while the prey associates the laser with death, and then scares them away, but it can have a different affect with the local predators, when I shot Rats off the telephone cables across the power poles, the local Cats would show up when ever they seen the laser, there were about 10 cats waiting for a rat to fall from the sky, lets just say they were well fed cats until the rats figured out what the laser light was.
BTW the power poles and telephone lines were the Rodent super highway when I live in Riverside CA, Rats, Possums, Squirrels, and a few others used them to get anywhere they wanted (except my house )

[amb5500c]

I've never had one that would stay on target from one shot to the next. So I gave up on them.
Richard