Hi-Viz Sights
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Agreed, get away from the aiming type rifle shooting with those HiViiz sights. Stack those beads and work on your leads and follow through.
Fibre optic sights may be good for night shooting ..I don't know, but will do nothing for you in daylight.
I agree with all the above.
"Take it off and go to a 2 bead system. They are too distracting. After all once your gun is mounted you should be focusing down range on the target. Not on the beads." Win/64
I agree with all the above.
"Take it off and go to a 2 bead system. They are too distracting. After all once your gun is mounted you should be focusing down range on the target. Not on the beads." Win/64
If you are looking at the sight, you are not focussing one the target. Every sporting coach teaches hard focus on the target. You can stack the beads if you are shooting skeet as in sustained lead.
I just saw Cris Batha shoot his new K gun at the Game Conservacy at Griffin & Howe this weekend. Both days, he was high gun but did not qualify as he is an instructor. We had a good laugh about people trying to put all sorts of beads or sights on their shotguns ot spending $35K or more on engravings, instead of focussing on the target.
Regards,
Henry
I just saw Cris Batha shoot his new K gun at the Game Conservacy at Griffin & Howe this weekend. Both days, he was high gun but did not qualify as he is an instructor. We had a good laugh about people trying to put all sorts of beads or sights on their shotguns ot spending $35K or more on engravings, instead of focussing on the target.
Regards,
Henry
Perhaps it is just me. But with my Citori trap, I had to aim to far under the bird in order to break it. (think gap between the bird and my beads)
At the time I was breaking 17/25 and this was after giving up my field gun just so I had a honest to goodness trap gun. I was used to shooting 90/100 with that field gun.
Once I put the high Vis on that allowed my to just get on the bottom of the bird and that did the trick. INSTANTLY I was shooting 23-25/25.
2 Months later and with lots of help from the boys I managed a 195/200 at the provincials. (Yes that got me a nice leather bag)
Plenty of guys says they couldn't stand that bright green at the end of the barrel. Me.. I don't notice it at all.
Jamie
At the time I was breaking 17/25 and this was after giving up my field gun just so I had a honest to goodness trap gun. I was used to shooting 90/100 with that field gun.
Once I put the high Vis on that allowed my to just get on the bottom of the bird and that did the trick. INSTANTLY I was shooting 23-25/25.
2 Months later and with lots of help from the boys I managed a 195/200 at the provincials. (Yes that got me a nice leather bag
)Plenty of guys says they couldn't stand that bright green at the end of the barrel. Me.. I don't notice it at all.
Jamie
My shooting was much improved after I put a F. Optic bead on my Citori. I don't even notice the sight anymore...it is more of a subconscious thing.
Even won a $1200 prize at a herbicide company sponsored trap/teal shoot, 2 weeks after putting it on.
I have about 15 target shotguns, some with hiviz, some without. I really can't say they are a huge advantage but I do favor them...
It's probably a mental thing because I look at the bird, not the bead, but they make me feel good. Same deal with extended chokes...
If it works for you, go for it.
It's probably a mental thing because I look at the bird, not the bead, but they make me feel good. Same deal with extended chokes...
If it works for you, go for it.
I've shot trap for about 30 years now , was a AA singles shooter and shot the back of the bus for a while also. Haven't shot registered targets for some time now but put a HiViz green bead on last spring due to my failing eye sight.. It has made a huge differance in my shooting . That and the beta blockers my doctor has me on I believe are the reason I haven't missed a singles target on practice night in the last 175 targets . can't waitill next tuesday to see if I can make 200 straight
This must be another case of "...different strokes for different folks...! My old Citori has standard white beads and I've wondered from time to time if a higher visibility site would be helpful, mostly because of eye sight changes as Bogman described. I'd even got to the point of creating elaborate, even elegant, theories about how they could help without making it harder to concentrate on the bird. Then this post came up and last week one of our group showed up at practice without a shotgun. So, he used another friend's shotgun with green neon sites on it. He didn't like them at all and found them very distracting. The guy whose shotgun he borrowed loves them, of course. Think I'll pass for the time being
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