Shotgun scopes

onmedic

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New to the site, hope i dont get blasted for this, not searching first. Probably been posted 100 times. Looking for a scope, either red dot or regular optics. If red dot need something parallax free or at least as far out as possible. Who uses what, can anyone recommend something, red dot or other.
Bryan
 
i have a burris fastfire on a shotgun.
looks like this:
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about $200 US. works great, couldnt be happier. the main plus of the fastfire is the fact that it is very light and small (2oz), so its quite unobtrusive as opposed to mounting some huge heavy tube on your gun. sizewise its more akin to a ghost ring sight than a scope.
the dot is 3MOA so its large enough to be seen but not some retardedly huge 10 MOA dot that obscures your target.

looks like this mounted (to give you an idea of scale):
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i've got a Burris Fullfield II 2-7x on my mossberg. I mounted it on quick release rings so i could take it off for bird hunting and such, but it hasn't come off yet. I managed to take a nice buck with it this year so im pretty happy with it.
 
manbearpig, what do you use the shotgun w/Burris Fastfire for? I'm thinking of mounting it for deer hunting (sometimes buckshot, others slugs), maybe even waterfowl? How useful is it, and where did you get it?
 
i use the Fastfire primarily for slugs - ive used a setup like this for bear and boar, slugs arent my first choice for deer and ive never shot an animal with buckshot in my life... i just stock up on it for when the zombies come :)
for quick shots on moving targets with shot, IMO, nothing beats point-shooting with a simple bead sight. i would not recommend something like this for waterfowl -- but perhaps someone with more experience in this can give you a definitive answer on that, im not really interested in waterfowl.

ive had it mounted on three shotguns - an H&R Ultra Slug Hunter, a Savage 24F and a Mossberg (smoothbore). i think this is close to the ideal sight for a slug gun. i also had a Benelli with factory ghost rings with Tritium inserts, and the Burris Fastfire is, IMO, easier to see, faster, almost as small/unobtrusive, and almost as durable (though i havent tested bashing them against something, this is purely subjective lol). it will also probably be significantly less expensive to fit your gun with than a set of good ghost rings (and no, a clamp-on heatshield with 'ghost rings' doesnt qualify, hehe).

you can buy them at Lebarons or other Canadian distributors, but the price is something like $280 Canadian.
in the states you can get them for $180 US, but you will have to ask and make sure there will be no import issues (i dont know).
 
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