Fiberoptic sight

Hey Goose...you might want to stroll through this site:

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There's a lot of good information in the responses to the various questions.

For example:

As for the front sight of your shotgun, it is of no practical use to the shotgun aficionado, so removing it or replacing it with a white insert will make the front sight disappear against the background and prevent you from being visually distracted as the muzzle moves in front of your eye.

Don Currie is NSCA’s Chief Instructor, an Orvis Wingshooting School instructor, and Master Class competitor.
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Since we point a shotgun rather than aim it, a conscious awareness of bead alignment as we focus on a target is a bad thing.

Don Currie is NSCA’s Chief Instructor, an Orvis Wingshooting School instructor, and Master Class competitor.
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birddude said:
I like them. Not enough to replace all my other sights with them. I think maybe they show up in my peripheral vision. I've found out I can get a similar effect with some 100 grit on aluminum or brass.
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I don't know that I would want to mess with an old gun, that's the way I am with classic cars as well. I like originality.
 
I know full well that it is not good to focus on the bead. I have avoided fiber optic beads because I do think they can take focus off the target. That being said, as I have gotten older, I have installed larger brass beads on my guns that had really small beads.

I find that if I consciously see the bead, I usually miss. When I focus on the clay target or bird, I usually connect.

When shooting keep this expression in mind: "Face on the stock, eyes on the rock."

The pheasant hunting version:

"Face on the stock, eyes on the c__k."
 
John Singer said:
I know full well that it is not good to focus on the bead. I have avoided fiber optic beads because I do think they can take focus off the target. That being said, as I have gotten older, I have installed larger brass beads on my guns that had really small beads.

I find that if I consciously see the bead, I usually miss. When I focus on the clay target or bird, I usually connect.

When shooting keep this expression in mind: "Face on the stock, eyes on the rock."

The pheasant hunting version:

"Face on the stock, eyes on the c__k."
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My opinion is, you close your left eye and you put your bead on the target.
 
I’ve always been a both eyes open guy. Always thought I was right eye dominant. Then I started watching videos and reading about how you can be semi-dominant in one eye. Its true. I’m only partially right eye dominant. I can focus better at times when I squint my left eye. I don’t shoot with it closed. I still want to see the orange across the field from me to make sure I’m not shooting anyone but squinting helps me do that and see the bird better. I remember my dad and lots of his friends wrapped white athletic tape around the end of their barrels. They could see the white in their peripheral vision and just focused on the bird. He was a pretty good shot. I’ve never done it but I’ve thought about it.
 
I recently bought a Franchi 48 AL 28 Deluxe. The person before me had taken off the original bead and put on a screw on fiber optic bead. It wouldn’t stay straight, so I took it off. I was planning on having a factory bead put back on it but now I’m considering just shooting it without the bead to see how I shoot it.
 
I am right handed and strongly left eye dominant. When I first started shooting a shotgun, my father insisted that I learn to shoot right handed as "all guns are right handed."

Therefore, I engage moving targets with both eyes open but close my left eye when I shoot. This allows my brain to determine the trajectory of the target. I then wink or close my left eye when I take the shot. On some close targets, I can shoot with both eyes open.

I coach a skeet team in the High School Clay Target League. We always tell the kids to focus on the target. In fact one question we often ask a kid after they take a shot is:

"What was the last thing you saw when you fired the shot?"

There is only one proper answer to that question: "the target (or the bird)".

If the answer is the "bead", your doing it wrong.
 
I shoot righty but am left eye dominant. I believe I close my left eye, though I may acquire target with both open. No beads of any kind on the gun I use 98% of the time.
 
A friend of mine used a sight blocker to retrain himself to shoot both eyes open Stuck to the rib or part of the bead can’t remember but it blocked his offhand eye from seeing the bead. He’ ll be a master class shooter soon but also shot I think he told me over 12000 targets this year.
 
The bead is for turkey hunting and to look good on the shelf. Remove it or disregard it if you want to be a competent wing shooter . I once hunted with this group of 4-5 guys. They all had these long glow in dark brightly colored sight things on their barrels. None of them could hit a dang thing. You don’t aim a shotgun you point and shoot. The more instinctive you become the better shot you will be
 
Mrben said:
The bead is for turkey hunting and to look good on the shelf. Remove it or disregard it if you want to be a competent wing shooter . I once hunted with this group of 4-5 guys. They all had these long glow in dark brightly colored sight things on their barrels. None of them could hit a dang thing. You don’t aim a shotgun you point and shoot. The more instinctive you become the better shot you will be
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My 1970 Ithaca side-by-side has a fiber optic sight.I like it. Some of the old Ithaca pumps also had fiberoptic sights.
 
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