"muzzle awareness in every shot as Stan has described."

That describes what I meant.

Anyone read Roger Barlow's description, in Gun Digest I believe, about using the trick of imagining a bird with long bill to get the lead right?

Barlow was a prize winning cameraman, he knew a thing or two about visual tricks.

Perhaps others have my "problem", I came to shotgunning after long years of air rifle and pistol use, and I mean lots of use, as in millions of shots and formal match shooting. It is near impossible for me to "forget" the bead, my eye instinctively checks on it the moment the gun is mounted.