I would actually prefer that they weren't tritium, or at least, I don't care that they are. I just find the rifle sights on the gun now to offer a weird sight picture with that bead on top of the post.
I would actually prefer that they weren't tritium, or at least, I don't care that they are. I just find the rifle sights on the gun now to offer a weird sight picture with that bead on top of the post.
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This is a complete waste of space and it is costing the user a round. I equate it to buying a set of headers for your car and then bolting a block of wood under the accelerator.
With the 870 platform and a full magazine tube, the (most) correct way to change the round in the chamber is as follows:
1: Mag-tube full, Chamber full
2: Press the tab allowing you to rack the weapon.
3: 1/2 way rack the weapon, half-ejecting the shell in the chamber and un-seating a round from the mag-tube.
4: re-seat the round in the full mag-tube with your thumb.
5: Finish racking the weapon ejecting the round that was in the tube.
6: throw the slug into the chamber and slide it home.
7: engage your target.
This sounds like a lot, but that's only because it is written down step by minute step. You can do this VERY fluid and quickly with just a little bit of practice.
I BY FAR! am not an expert on any weapon system and never will claim to be, but I can easily see why people hate the shotgun. They do not understand how to use it to nearly the potential that most understand the AR platform or the handgun.
Last edited by WS6; 06-23-11 at 08:11.
I am planning on sticking with the rifle sights for now and am not looking to get in to ghost ring sights.
Exactly my point. I was just trying to make the point towards the people who think shotguns are the "blow someone in half and throw them back 10 feet" types of weapons.
This reminds me of a buck I shot at this last season.. .270 Winchester, Barnes TSX bullets. 35 yards broadside. Tons of bright and bubbly blood, tracked him nearly 300+ yards back and forth across a creek down in a bottom. Saw him about 250 yards through the search on the other side of the creek. He ran, and I lost the blood trail there.
As you said, theres tons of variables.
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Will know for sure tonight re: the barrel length, but I'm 99% sure now that the one on the gun is a 20" now that I have an 18.5" in-hand.
I arrived at my sight choice two ways.
The first is through my own, limited, use. My previous 870 had a bead sight which just never seemed *right* to me. I can't say I ever really shot the gun enough to have a specific list of shortcomings, but I always thought it should have something more precise. The Benelli M3 that I owned for awhile had ghost rings. It seemed *right* but mostly because that's what I thought I was supposed to think. In hind sight it seemed slower. My hope is that the rifle sights, probably in part due to the fact that the rear sight is barrel-mounted, will split the difference between the two. I'm not certain, however, that the factory version will accomplish this. The white triangle/dot setup seems hard to get a good sight picture with.
The second is that an instructor I trust and respect, who knows way more about these things than I do, prefers the rifle sights. Generally I'm not so quick to take something like that as gospel, but given the person, and my complete lack of experience, I'm willing to chance it.
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