{"id":5552,"date":"2013-05-24T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2018-02-17T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T03:28:58","slug":"smith-wesson-bodyguard-380-laser-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380 Laser Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Insight laser<\/a> on my Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380<\/a> fizzled out.\u00a0 I have had the gun for several years now.\u00a0 I function check the laser periodically, like most of my gear, since the Bodyguard is my often carried back-up gun on duty.\u00a0 I turned the laser on and it produced a weak light.\u00a0 Then it shut down entirely.\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 Or so I thought.<\/p>\n

I fetched my original S&W box and owner’s manual.\u00a0 There is a tiny Allen wrench in the blue box.\u00a0 I mean it is super small hex key.\u00a0 It is nothing you would normally have on your workbench.\u00a0 The key is specific to adjusting, and also removing, the Insight laser in the receiver of this gun.<\/p>\n

After consulting the manual, I unloaded the firearm, field stripped it, and attacked the laser assembly.\u00a0 There is a small set screw that holds the laser body down in the forward portion of the receiver.\u00a0 The screw does not come out, which is nice since you will not lose it.\u00a0 Run the screw out with the Allen wrench.\u00a0 When it is sticking up a bit, use the firearm’s takedown lever to gently pry up the screw head.\u00a0 This will pull the laser assembly up and out of the receiver.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>When I did this on my gun, I found that the batteries, battery tray, and entire laser were covered in wet red rust and battery acid!\u00a0 Oh, shizz!\u00a0 You know me, I’m really OCD about my gear.\u00a0 I freaked out, thinking the Insight laser was toast.\u00a0 It wasn’t.\u00a0 I meticulously cleaned up the laser and receiver, installed two fresh Energizer 357’s, and the red light fired right up.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n

I immediately went to check the batteries in the three Crimson Trace Lasergrips<\/a> on my revolvers and the ArmaLaser TR1<\/a> on my Kel-Tec.\u00a0 All were just fine.\u00a0 While I had the Bodyguard 380 apart, I cleaned it (yeah, it was already clean) and lubed it.\u00a0 I also adjusted the laser down just a quarter turn so it was again dead on at 7 yards.<\/p>\n

I’ll tuck the Bodyguard 380 into the holster in my ballistic vest in about an hour when I go to work, happy in the knowledge that it is again ready for immediate action.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Insight laser on my Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380 fizzled out.\u00a0 I have had the gun for several years now.\u00a0 I function check the laser periodically, like most of my gear, since the Bodyguard is my often carried back-up gun on duty.\u00a0 I turned the laser on and it produced a weak light.\u00a0 Then it shut down entirely.\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 Or so I thought. I fetched my original S&W box and owner’s manual.\u00a0 There is a tiny Allen wrench in the blue box.\u00a0 I mean it is super small hex key.\u00a0 It is nothing you would normally have on your workbench.\u00a0 The key is specific to adjusting, and also … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,198,212,413,93,499],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","tag-380-acp","tag-back-up-gun","tag-concealed-carry-gun","tag-police-back-up-gun","tag-smith-wesson","tag-smith-wesson-bodyguard-380"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-1ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11301,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/11301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}