Laserlyte Pistol Trainer

[imtheomegaman]

Anyone have any experience with this unit?

http://www.opticsplanet.net/laserlyte-pistol-laser-trainer-minimum-2-inch-barrel-required-lt-pro.html

[Dr Rockso]

I have a similar unit, the LT-1, which is supposed to be more universal but requires a minimum barrel length of 3".

The positives are that it does what it says it's supposed to do and makes for a decent multi-caliber boresighter, to boot. The unit itself, however, is a little bit hokey. To use as a boresighter you put three small batteries (G13s) in a little plastic cup that snaps into the unit. Rotating the cup turns the laser boresighter on and off. To use as a trainer you replace the batteries with a little brass cylinder that has three smaller batteries inside (399s). Now when you insert it into the barrel it will pulse for about 100ms every time something on the gun makes noise (disengaging the safety, racking the slide, decocking, or dropping the hammer/striker by pulling the trigger). It comes with adapters to allow it to fit snug into most caliber barrels. The big negative, for me, is that you can not leave the 399 batteries in the brass training insert, even if the unit is off, or they will be dead very shortly. Also some size 399 batteries don't seem to be a good fit inside the insert, so you have to beware of that (and don't even think of buying replacement batteries locally, you'll go bankrupt). Overall I'm not dissatisfied, but I wish that somebody made a similar unit but better, even if more expensive.

When I first got it I was writing some software to allow a webcam pointed at a target to record where the hits were, but I've been too busy lately to try and finish that up (feel free to steal the idea if you're a software person, I barely know what I'm doing when it comes to coding). I've seen a lot of other webcam+laser software out there, so I know it's doable. I think something like that would make it a lot more fun and a lot more useful for training purposes.

[imtheomegaman]

do you know if the "pro" model improved on some of those shortcomings?

[Dr Rockso]

The only real difference I'm aware of with the "Pro" is that it actually sits inside the barrel (so you can draw from a holster, etc). I don't think it has an off switch, either, so you just have to take the batteries out when you're not using it.