Sighting system for fighting shotguns?

[CountryGent]

What is your favorite sighting system on a fighting shotgun? Can be anything, such as bead, ghost ring, rifle style, fiber optic, red dot, etc.

Thanks for opining.

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[AshWilliams]

Tritium dot on the front: plain, simple, and effective.

 

[Stomper]

I guess ghost-rings are all the rage for a "fighting shotgun", but my preference has always been a front-bead type sight. For my "bird-guns" I prefer a green "light-pipe" that fits on the barrel-rib just behind the stock front bead. It's awesome for "snap-shooting" when you happen to jump birds.


I have "spiced up" the bead-sight concept with a tritium front-bead from Meprolight.... works in all lighting situations, simple point and shoot, nothing to get snagged.

 

[Stomper]

Tritium dot on the front: plain, simple, and effective.

LOL.... you beat me to it!


DITTO!

 

[AshWilliams]

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[Stomper]

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Same-same!

 

[Nosferatu]

Used to like the XS large white bead front or just a plain a gold bead.

My 1301 wears an Aimpoint Mini.

 

[Will_White]

I like ghost rings, but if I was to build one up today I'd go with a micro red dot.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Nice old fashioned bead sight .
Fast , and easy to use....plus I have a lot of experience using a simple old bead sight..so it just works...for me at least.
Andy

 

[Alexx1401]

With my eyes aging I went with the fiber green front. REALLY helped a LOT. If I was going to rely on it more, right now its a just in case, I would want to go with a dot sight of some kind.

 

[Barefootdog]

Was always happy with the front bead. Still am.

That said my Mossberg 940 tac has a cut out for a red dot or a ghost ring.

So I'm going to play around a little bit.

Brought in a Lead and Steel PB-3 enclosed red dot.
Brought in a ghost ring insert.

So I will compare the three choices.


....and it's the perfect excuse to buy another 940 tac to help the comparision...

 

[Joe13]

Rifle sights work great with slugs in mine.

 

[albin25]

I'm not a shotgun guy, but I've often wondered why there isn't a laser site that project a series of circles that can be adjusted to fit your pattern at say 15 feet, 25 feet and 50 feet. or, maybe an adjustable beam flashlight to fit the spread.
Might be good system for a home defense shotgun

(Sez a guy that's only.owned 1 shotgun… for 2 weeks…. thirty years ago )

 

[bcp]

"The one thing that point shooting methods have in common is that they do not rely on the sights, and they strive to increase the shooter's ability to hit targets at short range under the less-than-ideal conditions expected in close quarters, life-threatening situations, self-defense, and combat situations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_shooting
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As a teenager, I got pretty good at hitting tossed tin cans, using a 22 with the sights removed.

Later, in Basic Training night shooting, I could keep all my shots on the paper silhouette (25 yards?) without being able to see the sights on the M1.

Bruce

 

[NeoBlackdog]

I use a green fiber optic on the front and somewhere around here I've got a 10-22 rear sight that I plan to have dovetailed into rear of the rib on my M2.

 

[titsonritz]

Used to like the XS large white bead front or just a plain a gold bead.

My 1301 wears an Aimpoint Mini.

XS big dot on my 870
AP Micro on my 1301 which is cowitnessed to my irons.

 

[crstrode]

What is your favorite sighting system on a fighting shotgun? Can be anything, such as bead, ghost ring, rifle style, fiber optic, red dot, etc.

Thanks for opining.

My home-defense pump 12-gauge has a clip-on fiber-optic front sight, merely to aid in getting it pointed in the general direction. Since it is a hack-sawed pheasant gun there is no rear sight.

Anyone considering the clip-on type of sight, I suggest you get one with a metal body as opposed to the more prevalent plastic ones. Plastic bodied sights have a tendency to loosen with age, and may actually crack in half after a few years standing in the corner . . . my first one did.