Thread: Help please: 2 3/4” vs 3” 0/U for ducks?

Biggest thing you need to remember, and it's all about the fit. You have to dona lot of practice shouldering the gun to get that muscle memory going and you have to be looking down the barrel in the same place all the time.
That doesn't happen in 5 minutes and you want the gun to be pretty close anyway.
Then it has to shoot where you are looking and ammo can influence that too.
In general if you are slightly high on the cheek weld and looking down onto the barrels slightly, it will shoot high which is the norm for trap shooting on the rise.
Sporting clays and hunting you want it shooting where you are looking and you won't see much of the barrel if any at all.
Just the bead.
Once you have all that sorted, believe it or not the beads are actually redundant except for checking as you don't look at them while shooting, you are looking at the target and relying on the muscle memory and practice that you are shouldering the gun in the right and same place every time.
So the big one there is make sure it fits.
Doesn't matter if it's cheap (annoying if it isn't lol), as long as it shoots where you are looking