Wilson Combat Sight Accuracy

[danastles]

For those with experience with these...

How much target does the front post take up at 75-100 yards? What is your slug accuracy at those distances?

How does it shoot birdshot accuracy wise when dialled in for slugs, say at 20 yards?

How would the sights suit a primarily deer hunting slug gun / rabbit gun in winter?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Boomer]

For those with experience with these...

How much target does the front post take up at 75-100 yards? What is your slug accuracy at those distances?

How does it shoot birdshot accuracy wise when dialled in for slugs, say at 20 yards?

How would the sights suit a primarily deer hunting slug gun / rabbit gun in winter?

Thanks for your time.

The Wilson Combat shotgun sight is the ghost ring and post style, which IMHO is the best arrangement for irons you can have on a hunting or defensive long gun, be it a shotgun or rifle. The correct way to use a ghost ring and post is as if it were a cross hair. You look through the ghost ring which fades from your vision as you focus first on the target then on the front sight. The flat top of the post equates to the horizontal wire of the cross hair, and the center line of the post, which the human eye finds easily even without a defined centerline line like those on XS's posts, equates to the vertical wire of the cross hair. Thus if you had a broadside shot at a game animal in a hunting scenario, you would center the post on or behind the shoulder, placing the flat top of the post midway up the body, and press the trigger. Thus the size of the front sight has no relevance to the size of the target, but a wide flat top front sight provides a better index of elevation than either a tapered post, or a bead.

With my ghost ring and post sighted 590, bird and buckshot centers on the point of aim out to 25 yards, which is the furthest I shoot shot from an open choke barrel. Rifle sights are a bit more challenging to use than a bead, on quick, and erratically moving small targets, but with practice they are certainly a viable sighting system. Once you learn to track your target with both eyes open, and rapidly shift your focus to the front sight the moment you press the trigger, your performance will be as good as with a bead.

 

[danastles]

Thanks for the reply. Your insight is appreciated.