To red dot or not?

[Terrapin]

We tried it extensively about ten years ago… to the point of machining receivers down to get the dot as natural as possible. We did a bunch of testing on skeet and 5-stand. Across the board everyone that tried it shot the dot well AT FIRST… then we all lost our ability to shoot & ended up shooting way worse. These are accomplished M class sporting clay shooters.

Something about the dot gives the shotgun equivalent of target panic.

Love a dot on my turkey gun & barnyard commando shotgun. For wing shooting, it does not seem to work.


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[Kurts86]

I have messed around with red dots on a shotgun with clays and certain target presentations work well like a springing teal or some going away shots. It really melts down with crossing shots for me. It’s not there yet generally.

I am 100% dots for turkey hunting.

I do think it’s possible at some point red dots will find a home in clays shooting. Look how fast handgun red dots went from a range toy to standard equipment. I think there are mounting fit issues that are getting better and I also just think there is a tremendous resistance to the idea in the hardcore shotgun community that has held exploration of the idea up.