I'm wondering what kind of sight picture you see when using a gun with a mid bead in addition to the muzzle bead. I've always lined them up on the barrel, where the mid bead is partially covering the end bead. I was reading a trap book last night and it said the ivory bead should be aligned on top of the mid bead for proper sight picture. I'm sure there is variance here, but curious as to what others do. Thank you.
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I seldom check beads anymore, because most of my guns fit me. Usually I can tell when I mount the gun if it is where it should be, If something does not feel right, sure enough, the center bead is not where I want it. It's just one more thing you can use of ignore, up to the shooter.
Read Bead or No Bead That is the Question posting by ME. Beretta 690 NO BEADS.
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Still waiting for the picture of the gun !!!!!
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That sheds a new light on lining up the beads !!!!
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I don't think the coloring of a rib or barrel had much to do with a mid-bead being put in play. I do think that under certain back grounds, the white chalk made it much easier to get a reference on a hard flying angling bird? I can't see how the white chalk had much to do with elevation of POI as does that infernal mid-bead farce?
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Oh I'm sure you're right on all points going towards a mid bead but with the understanding the gun "FITS" reducing the glare might of been all that is used for ?
I assume most really good shooters don't check to see if the beads are lined up......:badguy:
If more people would get their gun shooting where they look and smoking targets REGARDLESS of where the mid bead is located they'd be far better off. I understand that sometimes a new shooter wants a reference to prove his gun is mounted correctly and seeing a mid bead directly behind the front bead can be used to see if the shooter is looking directly down the barrel as long as the mid bead is not to the side of the front bead. Taking the matter further and trying to have the mid bead and front bead stacked in a perfect fig.8 and STILL having the gun shoot to the proper p.o.i. for that shooter is an excercise in madness. It CAN NOT be done for EVERYONE regardless of adjustable ribs combs,etc. People have different sizes of heads and amount of space between cheek and eyes and some crawl the stock and some don't. T he ONLY way to get that magical combination for most folks is to first get the gun smoking targets and then REMOVE the mid bead and drill and tap a location for it that gives you your perfect fig.8. By the time you do all this crap you should have shot enough to automatically mount the gun straight and learned how your gun looks when its set up to smash targets and you won't need to rely on the beads. The BEADS ARE NOT SIGHTS . Its a SHOTGUN NOT A RIFLE..
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The proper sight picture when shooting a shotgun is looking at the Target.
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Figure 8 alignment is how I shoot but every one shoots differnt
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I love my sights to make ah eight ball. Or is it s figure 8? Hell, i like it anyway.
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Once my guns are setup to shoot where I am looking I never check the beads. If you look at the beads when your shooting you miss the target. Get the gun to shoot where you are looking and forget the beads.
There is a gentleman on this site that made me two real ivory beads for eell that are great
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DONT PLAY WITH YOUR GUNS IN THE HOUSE!!!
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As a pistol shooter for decades, I really struggled with the whole "bead sight picture" thing. I tried to "line up" the beads by looking at them-that is, by having my eyes focus on them-and then look downrange for the clay.
Disaster. Of course.
Now (and only in the last couple of months) I ignore the beads completely, instead I focus on consistent gun mount, weight distribution on the feet, and ALWAYS look elsewhere than at the beads.
I actually don't know what the beads look like when I hit a clay.
Disaster. Of course.
Now (and only in the last couple of months) I ignore the beads completely, instead I focus on consistent gun mount, weight distribution on the feet, and ALWAYS look elsewhere than at the beads.
I actually don't know what the beads look like when I hit a clay.
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Exactly this
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