Thread: Gun Porn, show off your new toys

Well im a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to shotguns. I was brought up on an under over and s/s and thats what i spent my time shooting mainly. When i moved to a tube gun i transitioned pretty quickly but found that if a shotgun fits you properly then its much of a muchness. The box fed gun was a bit outside my comfort zone compared to what i was used to but i have to say that without the dot on it it points just as good as anything else i have picked up.

The dots only been on it for a couple of days but i have already found that with it turned on my eyes are reverting from a target focus to a "sights" focus, that alone is slowing my transitions down because im now aiming the gun and not pointing and following through like i used to. Example, if you put an array of 10 plates up from left to right in front of you then i would say the fastest way to shoot them is to start at one end and shoot them all one after the other consecutively without ever stopping the movement of the gun, the way to do that is to use a target focus (with a gun that fits) and just tap the trigger at the correct time as the gun swings through the arc of the plates. But with the dot switched on im finding myself moving from plate to plate, stopping the gun as my eyes revert from target to sights focus, making the shot then repeating the process for the next plate. Slow as shit compared to a target only focus.

As far as im concerned the only time you need to aim a shotgun and be aware of your sights is when you are shooting slugs. So im now thinking that i need to either lose the dot completely and sight the irons in for slugs or sight the dot in for slugs and just turn it off for those birdshot stages and shoot it like a normal shotgun. The gun hasnt been match tested yet and by the looks of it it wont be until the north island 3-gun champs so i will use that as a test bed. Want to go to the shotgun world shoot next year so have alot to think about and not much time.