Shooting style

[Goosemaster]

Take someone else’s wife… There is the old Chinese proverb, “the family that slays together, stays together”….

Never thought of that, but I'm not saying I wouldn't do it LOL

 

[Goosemaster]

Although I don't think the bead makes that much difference, I do prefer a bright colored sight. Not enough to replace the factory sight with one but I do prefer them. I'm not sure why but it might be that when I hit or miss the image of where the bead was sticks in my mind more. Or it may be that all through my teenage and young adult life I carried that old beat up 37 Ithaca 16 with the original bright bead.

Yep, I think Ithaca was the first one to use a fiber optic site, and I had a model 37 when I was a teenager, and I still use an Ithaca side-by-side that my dad bought in 197 0. I love the Ithaca bright red fiber optic site from the '70s. Some of them are orange.

 

[Goosemaster]

I have noticed that guys that protest about ass grabbing too much will grab an ass or two when nobody is looking… sometimes they get caught and act like it was the first time.

BTW I am grateful my wife doesn’t hunt. She does her thing and I do mine.

I think you guys are missing the point of ass grabbing LOL. One time my buddy brought his wife on a bird hunting trip, and she totally screwed it up!!

 

[HS Strut]

The hardest thing for your brain to do is switch from rifle/pistol shooting at a stationary target to moving targets with with a shotgun. For rifle/pistol, you use fine aim with sights focused on the target and one eye closed. Switching to shotgun, both eyes are open focusing on the moving target instead of aiming with barrel/bead. Since your eye can only focus on one spot, aiming a shotgun barrel/bead at the target will never allow any lead.

I spent many years missing birds due looking down the barrel instead of at the target. Only after shooting lots of skeet and clays while learning how to focus on the bird instead of aiming the barrel did the hits start coming. Regarding leads, it takes a lot of shooting at different angles/speeds/distance to configure your brain's automatic response. Some folks get it quickly while others take a lifetime. In fact, I've seen hunters with 20+ years experience still miss a lot. Some bad habits are hard to fix.

This! I’ve been hunting birds/rabbits since I was a little kid but being in Indiana we hunted deer a lot more. So most of my shooting was aiming AT an animal. So when I got serious about bird hunting a decade ago, I missed a LOT of birds. Took me several years to figure out I had trained myself to AIM AT what I was shooting instead of where the bird is going. Once I started getting out in front…birds started falling nearly every time my dog put one up! Happy dogs! Happy hunter. I now find it fun to see how far in front I can get and fold a bird or duck. Also the number of birds lost due to being cipples and them running off went WAY down. Get out in front, hit’m in the head…no trailing. Dog finds the bird where it landed

 

[Timmer92]

I didn't read all the posts but anyone good with a shotgun is shooting sight picture. If you have time to mount the gun and look down the rib over the bead and make sure you are mounted correctly, then great, but most of the time it's instinctive mount and shoot.

 

[Limitless]

I didn't read all the posts but anyone good with a shotgun is shooting sight picture. If you have time to mount the gun and look down the rib over the bead and make sure you are mounted correctly, then great, but most of the time it's instinctive mount and shoot.

Agreed, but it doesn't hurt to mount it periodically while hunting. And if you have a pointer on a bird, a quick test mount can also be beneficial.

 

[CRP]

Those two video's from Gil Ash are what I tell new shooters to watch, due to being very instructive. It is also good for older shooters that don't shoot very well, if they will allow themselves to listen to a pro...