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Post by genesis273 on Aug 12, 2024 21:48:06 GMT -5
Not visible. I have a picatinny rail on top of the receiver for my turkey sight. I'm looking through the center picatinny rails to see the front sight. The picatinny mount have like a "V" in the center. My turkey sight has been removed. Can you take off the picatinny rail? That might be causing you to have your head higher on the stock to see over the P rail to see the front bead and causing the shotgun to shoot high. Your eye is the rear "sight" on a shotgun, the higher your head is in relation to the front bead, the higher the gun will shoot. Good thinking! I'll give that a try. Thank you! |
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Post by esshup on Aug 13, 2024 0:04:29 GMT -5
Can you take off the picatinny rail? That might be causing you to have your head higher on the stock to see over the P rail to see the front bead and causing the shotgun to shoot high. Your eye is the rear "sight" on a shotgun, the higher your head is in relation to the front bead, the higher the gun will shoot. Good thinking! I'll give that a try. Thank you! You don't have to go to any real expense to pattern the gun for POI (Point of Impact). You can use any 3' wide piece of paper that is about 4' tall. Put an aiming dot on it with something, even a black magic marker or a spray can. Use whatever choke you had in the gun, but the tighter the choke the better. You can use a regular shotshell with lead shot - 1 oz or 1 1/8 oz shot. Stand 20 yards from it, concentrate on the aiming point, put the gun to your shoulder put your face on the stock and pull the trigger. You don't want to look at the bead or the gun - your eye cannot focus on the bead AND a target 20+ yards away at the same time. The gun has to be shooting where you look. Do that 2-3 times and that will tell you if you are consistently mounting the gun the same way AND where the gun is hitting compared to where you are looking. A sporting clays or skeet gun should have 50% of the pattern above and below the aiming dot, ditto for a hunting gun unless you are used to shooting at a target that is floating over the bead. A trap gun should be patterning 70/30, meaning that 70% of the pattern should be above the aiming point because the birds that trap shooters are shooting are always rising up. |
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