Experience using red dot/reflex sight on waterfowl??

Didn't give folks very long to reply, but my brief experiment with left me less then impressed. If a gun didn't fit me properly I could see maybe trying it if I was hell bent on using that exact gun. My experience may have been a mental thing as it seemed to dramatically impact the balance and feel of a gun I already enjoyed, I might consider a burris speedbead or what ever it is called but only if it is given to me. Keep the reddots on guns firing single projectile loads.
 
Use one for turkey unless you are using a Burris fast fire that is made for wing shooting. Red dots are made for pointing and aiming not wing shooting. Had one on mossberg 930 and for wing shooting did not work.
 
Wing and clay shooting is about gun fit not sights. You don't aim, you point, lead and shoot based on "dead reckoning" :) and that gets fine tuned through lots of practice.
Contraptions like red dots on shotguns are simply marketing gimmickry by manufacturers to expand the sales of their product, they're next to useless on a shotgun used for clays or bird.
 
I fired a few boxes on shells on some clays with a red dot. I do much better without it and in all honesty I didn't like it nor would put it on any of my shotguns. I think as said above, if you learn to wing shoot properly, you don't need any "better mousetraps"
 
Hmm, 3 who said it didn't work for them and 3 say it's dumb or I need another shotgun. I'll probably try it after some practice on clays. Or maybe just forget the whole thing and put it back in the safe.
 
Nothing wrong with trying out innovative stuff, however, as far as wingshooting and/or clay shooting is concerned the age old proven method of shotgunning will continue to reign i.e. till such time someone invents some form of bird seeking or clay seeking pellets. :)
 
Tried a red dot on a shotgun once. Did not care for it. When people have such an intense aiming focus point then tend to do just that, aim.
In my years of clays and wing shooting, I could not tell you what my front sight picture looks like. All I know is I am focused on the clay or target, not on the sight.

Most days shooting waterfowl are pretty poor weather, combine with with optics and you have a recipe for foggy lenses, water drop obscured sight pictures plus all the other vegetation that falls into the sight. I good bright hi Viz front sight will accomplish all the things a red dot will do, and more.
 
A red dot or holo can be useful on a shotgun if used with slugs/sabots in the woods during a darker day/time. At this point I would focus on a shotgun that has a proper cheekweld with a permanent red dot setup.
 
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