Fibre optic sights on a shotgun

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Hi all,

Noob to the firearms and hunting scene here.

I may or may not have recently purchased a used Browning BPS NWTF edition 12ga pump shotgun. This came from the factory with fibre optic sights. However, since turkey season is over in my area, I want to get into a bit of "back field" skeet shooting. I've read that the fibre optic sights may hamper the ability to quickly acquire and shoot the skeet.

This brings me to my question: when removing the sights, and then it comes time for fall turkey/deer season, and I reinstall the sights, do I need to re-sight the gun after the sights are reinstalled? If so, how does one go about that?

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
 
n8dh said:
Hi all,

Noob to the firearms and hunting scene here.

I may or may not have recently purchased a used Browning BPS NWTF edition 12ga pump shotgun. This came from the factory with fibre optic sights. However, since turkey season is over in my area, I want to get into a bit of "back field" skeet shooting. I've read that the fibre optic sights may hamper the ability to quickly acquire and shoot the skeet.

This brings me to my question: when removing the sights, and then it comes time for fall turkey/deer season, and I reinstall the sights, do I need to re-sight the gun after the sights are reinstalled? If so, how does one go about that?

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
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The habit that you don't want to get into when wingshooting, is concentrating on the beads, and using them as sights as you would when aiming a rifle. Sights that obstruct your view of the target are also a hindrance. If by sights, you mean actual front and rear sights, then yes they may be a hindrance, and if you remove them, you will need to recheck them after recounting them.
 
i would leave the front one.. putting a glow type sight at front of shotgun greatly improved my ability.. just the thought alone of knowing i needed to shoulder properly to see the sight "glow" helped a lot. not necessarily using the sight too aim, but looking past the sight at clay bird (or real bird) and seeing the glow all at same time.
the "ability to quickly acquire and shoot the skeet" is not something quickly acquired if you are learning wrong. would highly recomend getting lessons at the trap club as well. a good shooting teacher can help you go from missing 80 % to hitting 80 % very quickly.

come turkey season , get some large targets. aim front bead in middle at a dot and see how gun patterns, at different distances.. thats all you need to know... (i would even do it for skeet shooting with those loads)
 
Jetman said:
i would leave the front one.. putting a glow type sight at front of shotgun greatly improved my ability.. just the thought alone of knowing i needed to shoulder properly to see the sight "glow" helped a lot. not necessarily using the sight too aim, but looking past the sight at clay bird (or real bird) and seeing the glow all at same time.
the "ability to quickly acquire and shoot the skeet" is not something quickly acquired if you are learning wrong. would highly recomend getting lessons at the trap club as well. a good shooting teacher can help you go from missing 80 % to hitting 80 % very quickly.

come turkey season , get some large targets. aim front bead in middle at a dot and see how gun patterns, at different distances.. thats all you need to know... (i would even do it for skeet shooting with those loads)
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Do you shoot actual "skeet", I don't know anyone that actually shoots skeet, that refers to the clay target as a "skeet".;)
 
Why not look at getting another barrel? One with a bead, that be better suited for Skeet. Save you having to re install the fiber sights. Everytime you want to go turkey hunting.
 
You look into the flight path you see the target you move to the target you do not look at the bead or the bbl . AA trap shooter 25-28 yrs experience probably about 150,000 targets . Just saying
 
Thanks for the replies, fellas. I did not end up taking the sights off my gun when I went shooting with a few family members, as I did want to pattern the gun for turkey hunting. There were a couple of 870s there with just a bead sight on them, and I found it much easier to track the target without having the rear sight.

I'll have to look into the different barrel option; does anyone know if they still sell Invector Plus barrels for the older, discontinued BPS guns?
 
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