I tried a fiber sight on a skeet gun and decided it was distracting. The old white bead went right back on the gun. I am a low gun shooter and never see the sights anyway. The barrel is in my field of view, but only as a presence. My focus is on the bird or the clay.

I've shot with guys who love the things. My suggestion is to try it if you have the bug to do so. You can always take it off.

 

For the past two years I have been switching back and forth between beads and various fibre optic sights. No statistical difference. The only time I really notice them is when I am sitting around looking at the gun. I have said twice I am going to take them off the next time I take the guns out but I keep forgetting.

 

I have a Tom Knapp champion easy hit sight in red and I love it. The end of the fiber optic sits back in a tube so your left eye (if you are right handed) cant see it and helps with two eye shooting. It is very bright but somehow not distracting. It also looks pretty cool. You dont have to deal with taking the bead of or magnets or any thing just peel and stick. It is very solid and isn't falling of anytime soon. The day after I put it on I hit a 25.

 

Had one of the green fiber optic sight that came on my used gun. magnetic mount on the rib. One of my buddies wanted to try it so we snapped it on his gun. First shot something went flying about 20 feet behind him. Ports in the top barrel, and the gas must be directed back.
I tried the sight once and decided I did not like it.

 

I tried a fiber sight on a skeet gun and decided it was distracting. The old white bead went right back on the gun. I am a low gun shooter and never see the sights anyway. The barrel is in my field of view, but only as a presence. My focus is on the bird or the clay.

I've shot with guys who love the things. My suggestion is to try it if you have the bug to do so. You can always take it off.

I have to agree with you here. It's been a number of years, but I've tried to think about looking at anything but the clay and cannot remember doing so. I guess it all comes naturally once you're used to a specific gun.

 

If you're spending time looking at your front site instead of the bird, you're gonna miss

 

The less noticeable the front sight is the better, IMHO. You shouldn't be looking at it anyway.

 

I'm with OneOunce on this one - all of these things are just taking money out of your checkbook .....

The only reason the beads are there - is to make sure you have a good level mount / then forget them ....

 

No boys, you don't look at the front sight; your periferal vision will pick it up; eye on the bird. I agree with trap7field said.

I am left eye dominate and the 'easy hit' with the recessed fiber keeps my left from seeing the red dot. When you notice, not look at, the red dot, you know you're lined up because only the eye over the rib picks it up periferally. Works great!!

 

I have one that snaps on the rib. I only use it for turkey hunting.

 

Passing fad. They look cool and people want to get with the latest trend. Use it if you like it until something newer grabs everyone's attention.

 

Your peripheral vision picks up the super bright dot in your shooting eye, but it is recessed so your other eye cant see the dot. It worked for me that's all I'm saying.

 

I personally like the fiber optic beads but I am talking about the small ones like what cones stock on the Benellis. I have guns without them and don't really think it makes a lot of a difference. Time I really notice it is in low light conditions such as first light waterfowl hunting.

 

for me it has to be a small bead.
white or brass.
but smaller the better.

 

On a hunt several year ago, we stopped for a quick lunch in the field and I noticed that I had knocked the bead off the end of my Beretta 390. I said something and both of my partners giggled and said, "Spencer, the bead has been gone for the last week. We were wondering when you would see it. "

I might try a fiber optic bead if I had eye dominance issues, but I have found that the quickest way for me to start missing is to look at the "pip". I don't want anything that will draw my eye to the barrel.

 

Small beads or no beads... NEVER a fiber optic sight...

 

I feel that the only reason for a bead is to evaluate gun fit. After the gun fits, NEVER look at the barrel. I mount the gun and shoot with out once seeing the barrel.

 

What Doc O Glock said... After verifying POA, I use an old Weaver Accu-Point to help me when I fit my hunting shotguns. If you're not familiar with the accu-point, the visible "bead" (an early fiber optic) is at the end of a very small hollow tube about 3 inches long...the only way you can see the bead is if your eye is almost perfectly aligned with the rib and tube. On a hunting gun or a gun shot from a low ready position, I don't really care if it has a bead or not after it's fitted.

On a target gun shot from a high mount position, I like the confidence that the twin beads give for lining up and locking in my postion - but a simple white bead works fine. After I call pull, I never consciously see the beads again - of course, I don't consciously or unconsciously see my name in the winner's circle very often so I'm not sure how good my advice is....

 

Astetically, i like the small red bead on my Benelli. I am not a fan of fiber optic sights.

 

Astetically, i like the small red bead on my Benelli. I am not a fan of fiber optic sights.

New on here but IMO I agree with the above. I tried at Champion after using one on an SBE my buddy had. I took if off after one of the worst rounds of SC ever. I found my eyes getting "locked" on the bead and not the bird. I went back to that little red bead on my SBE2 and never looked back. Waste of $20 smacks.

 

I have fiber sights in most of my hunting guns. For my target gun the white small bead works the best.
I use it to line my gun up when I premount. From that point on the bead is useless.

 

They are gimmicks that provide no usefulness for shooting anything that flies.

 

I want to try a fiber optic rifle sight set for turkey hunting.

 

I like the fiber optic sights. I prefer the kind that is not hidden in a tunnel, but
always visible, but I like the tunnel version better than just a plain bead.
John Kruger swears by the fiber optic sight in a tunnel. Some like them and
some don't. You have to determine this for yourself. Consensus won't help
you here.

 

I want to try a fiber optic rifle sight set for turkey hunting.

Totally different... that's using a shotgun like a rifle, not shooting at a flying target.