Soooo, you said "but I would still be seeing the rib and such things annoy me too much to wanna deal with it. I'd rather just use one of my guns that allows me to look right down the rib and hit the target."
Let me see if I understand better. If you had a shotgun with front and middle beads, you would desire the middle bead to be directly in line with the front bead for normal use?
And not very much of the rib would be visible?
Yes?
Thank you
Mike
Mike, that describes the sight picture that I want. In fact, my 626 has a middle bead and that is exactly the sight picture I get with it. The stock has the right amount of drop so that I don't see the rib at all, just the 2 beads and I can float the target right over them and hit it. Am I unusual in wanting my guns to shoot this way?
When I brought up this issue last year regarding the 425, there were different opinions given on it. Let me emphasize that I don't look at the barrel when wing shooting, I always focus on the bird. But I want to see a consistent sight picture when I practice my mount, and the only way I've found to be consistent is for my right eye to be looking right down the rib without seeing it.
It's my opinion that a gun ought to shoot to the point where the rib is aimed. If it shoots above that point, and a lot of my shotguns do, I've found that I can adjust to it by floating the target over the rib and do ok. If the gun shoots below that point, I've never been able to adapt very well.
When I brought my 425 home I carried it out to my little home range and missed 6 consecutive shots on targets going straight away. I then put it on sandbags and shot to where the rib was aimed and found that point of impact was well below the point of aim. I really wanted to use the gun, so in time I bought a fiber optic set that attaches to the rib and has a center bead near the muzzle and one on each side about halfway down the barrel. I was able to adjust it so that the gun shoots to the point where the 3 beads are level and that gives me an idea of how much of the rib I need to see. I practiced with it a good bit and have taken quite a few doves with it, but it's still less than ideal.
My apologies to the OP for hijacking your thread. I can offer you a good deal on a CZ if you want a 20 gauge.
