Ok, here's another newbie question:
How do you align the bead(s) with your eye and rib when you shoot?
My first shotgun, a Mossberg 5500 MK-II, only had a single bead at the muzzle. I'd put my cheek on the comb so as I looked down the rib the effective "height" of the rib was as tall as the height of the bead, and I'd put the target that same height again above the bead.
That worked well. I was regularly shooting in the high teens, a good run was in the low 20s. I got a 24 once. (that made me happy)
However I wanted an O/U, so I tried my friend's Lanber 2087, and the Mossberg method didn't work as well. He said (if I remember correctly) he put the bead right on the bird, and couldn't see any of the rib, or just a sliver of it.
I ended up with a Browning Cynergy (a very very pretty gun that handles nicely, it's too good for me) and it has two beads. I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to align stuff with it.
One person told me that the mid-bead should be directly obscuring the front bead (line them up) and another told me the two beads should make an "8". (one just over the other.) I can't remember what either person said about where the target should go in those two setups.
So, what kind of gun do you have, how many beads does it have, and how do you align them with respect to each other and the target? What kind of shooting do you do with that alignment? I understand trap setups will tend to shoot higher for the same alignment to take advantage of the rising target. The Cynergy isn't a trap specific gun (as far as I know) so it should shoot like a skeet or sporting clays gun, right?
Don't be shy! Tell me what you do that works for you. There are no wrong answers!
How do you align the bead(s) with your eye and rib when you shoot?
My first shotgun, a Mossberg 5500 MK-II, only had a single bead at the muzzle. I'd put my cheek on the comb so as I looked down the rib the effective "height" of the rib was as tall as the height of the bead, and I'd put the target that same height again above the bead.
That worked well. I was regularly shooting in the high teens, a good run was in the low 20s. I got a 24 once. (that made me happy)
However I wanted an O/U, so I tried my friend's Lanber 2087, and the Mossberg method didn't work as well. He said (if I remember correctly) he put the bead right on the bird, and couldn't see any of the rib, or just a sliver of it.
I ended up with a Browning Cynergy (a very very pretty gun that handles nicely, it's too good for me) and it has two beads. I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to align stuff with it.
One person told me that the mid-bead should be directly obscuring the front bead (line them up) and another told me the two beads should make an "8". (one just over the other.) I can't remember what either person said about where the target should go in those two setups.
So, what kind of gun do you have, how many beads does it have, and how do you align them with respect to each other and the target? What kind of shooting do you do with that alignment? I understand trap setups will tend to shoot higher for the same alignment to take advantage of the rising target. The Cynergy isn't a trap specific gun (as far as I know) so it should shoot like a skeet or sporting clays gun, right?
Don't be shy! Tell me what you do that works for you. There are no wrong answers!