Trap Shooting & Fibre Sight

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Have really been getting myself interested in trap shooting, but have such a hard time following the bead on my barrel. Question is in trap shooting is it frown upon to add a fiber slight to your barrel? Sat around watching more experienced shooters
and have never seen a fiber sight.
 
Watching the bead when you shoot the clay games is a great way to miss. Concentrate on the Clays and ignore the bead, and you will do a lot better.
 
If you're "following" the bead on your barrel as you say your focus is on your gun, not the target and it wouldn't matter if you had a battery operated neon bead at that point. You're going to miss. Your eyes should be focused front and centre as they say on the clay target and your gun barrel should appear in your peripheral vision only. Focus on the target!
You said you dont see other trap shooters using fibre optics beads. Ask yourself why? Then look above, the answer is in the first paragraph.
 
Stubblejumper & the Spank have nailed this! I shot skeet with a gentleman who was using an older gun which had been cut down and reamed and had no bead at all............and he went 23/25. So as stated before don't worry about the bead.
 
One of the things I taught myself early on was to watch the targets from the other shooters emerging from the house and determine at which point or distance the targets changed from an orange flash to a solid disc in my vision and I used that as my hold point. I get myself set in place, then look at the hold point I want while mounting my gun, make sure my gun mount is proper, and that my sight picture is correct which means I temporarily shift my vision to my gun for a check then shift my vision back to my hold point and once I am mentally focused that I want the target I call for it. When it appears I lock my vision onto it and try to kill it, lol.
 
Dry fire practice. Set your stance, mount the gun, swing, and fire. Lower gun shuffle feet and repeat.
Gun has to come up and meet your cheek never drop your head to meet the stock.
Look down the barrel if you have double beads they line up. If not fix your mount/cheek position as your gun is canted
Swing from the hips down do not twist your upper body
Focus on the clay not the gun. The gun will track with your head/eyes if above is followed.
If shooting a field gun adding a cheek riser(gun then shoots high) will help as you will be able to keep the bird in sight.
Lots of little fixes after those basics but above will get your scores up.
Dry mount practice is the most important. Once gun mount and stance are consistent the rest just falls into place.
 
Thank you everyone!! Followed the good advice you guys have thrown in this post! Went out yesterday and what a difference! Did 3 rounds in total with a success rate of 15 / 18 / 21. Was very happy with the last round :)
 
I have a green fibre bead on my K80.

Sometimes I find myself looking at (not focusing on) the bead, other times not so much.

I will say this much about it... A few years back in Texas, I was going out for a shootoff and as soon as I mounted my gun, I noticed the fibre had fallen out. I was quite disconcerted about it and didn't go very far in that shootoff.

All this to say, if you can shoot comfortably without one, then great. If you use one and it works for you, then great. Everybody has something a little different that works for them. Don't be afraid to try different things and see what works best for you.

Brad.
 
bmcrae said:
I have a green fibre bead on my K80.

Sometimes I find myself looking at (not focusing on) the bead, other times not so much.

I will say this much about it... A few years back in Texas, I was going out for a shootoff and as soon as I mounted my gun, I noticed the fibre had fallen out. I was quite disconcerted about it and didn't go very far in that shootoff.

All this to say, if you can shoot comfortably without one, then great. If you use one and it works for you, then great. Everybody has something a little different that works for them. Don't be afraid to try different things and see what works best for you.

Brad.
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great point, every bird i hit, i cover the bird with my bead, i stack the beads when i start, then take the bead to the bird., don't worry about the bead, not sure how to take that, i have little trouble running 25's.
 
hogiron said:
great point, every bird i hit, i cover the bird with my bead, i stack the beads when i start, then take the bead to the bird., don't worry about the bead, not sure how to take that, i have little trouble running 25's.
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I shoot much more skeet and sporting clays than I do trap, but I don't consciously even notice the beads at all. And when shooting low gun for sporting clays, or while hunting, I just throw the gun up and shoot, without checking my gun mount at all.
 
As a skeet shooter, I raise the gun and lign up the beads fir reference.
After that, eyes at the look point, and as soon as the bird leaves the house, lock on ASAP.
This helps you get away from measuring the barell to the bird.
The lead is already determined by the distance from the hold point, to the house. Just move on the flash, and lock your eyes on the bird.
 
I have a fibre bead, I don't notice it when I shoot as I'm fixed on the target.
My singles scores don't really change if I take it off, but my HC scores do, so it must be part of my sight picture.
 
Fibre optic sight/bead is a distraction for me. When I try to focus on the bird, if I had a really bright fibre optic sight, my focus can sometimes change to the sight instead causing misses. For trap/skeet, I would definitely prefer a white bead, still visible in peripheral sight picture, but doesn't cause unwanted re-focus.

Like everyone else said, focus on the target, NOT the sight.
 
I agree if you are using the beads on the barrel as sights, you will miss most times.

I mount the shotgun open one eye and check my beads are stacked where I want them. Move my barrel just to the top of the house then open both eyes and change my focus out to the trap field and call for the target/clay. I see the target/clay and my shotgun follows and pull the trigger. It just happens
 
When I started shooting I would mention the bead and then pick my gun up later in the day to find it gone
It took me about three bead replacements to figure out it was not falling off the old guys at the club were removing it and now I know why
The only time I look for a bead is hunting deer with a slug or turkey I never see one any other time
Cheers
 
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