Fiberoptic sight

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

Ask the Instructor

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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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and

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.
 
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