just started shooting skeet

[sharpshooter94]

I was wondering if a dot sight would be a good idea for a skeet/smallgame/turkey shotgun. If so, red dot or reflex? And if you could, explain your reasoning. Thanks

[Bayrat]

In clay sports you don't use any sights. If the shotgun fits you properly, your eye over the stock is the rear sight and you focus on the target with both eyes to help your brain calculate lead for changes in the distance to the moving clay. Not so critical in the shallow angles of Trap, but it's aspecially important to have both eyes "locked" on the bird in a clay sport with tight crossing shots such as Skeet, or Sporting Clays. You should only be "just aware" of the end of the barrel. You should be focased so much on the bird that you can actually make out details of it such as the rim ridges. If your looking at the end of the barrel, your not focasing enough on the bird and your likely to miss it.

Some clay instructors even take the bead off the ends of their student's gun barrels so they don't form the bad habbit of looking at the bead. With some clay sports type shotguns, there are beads, but they are only there so you can check your head postion before you call for the bird.
Bayrat

[Sidekick]

I would never put a red dot sight on any shotgun. Not even for turkey hunting. You never use sights for wingshooting and in my opinion the bead on my shotgun is more than adequate for turkey hunting. I think it's just another thing to screw with or go wrong. You're not going to shoot that far anyway. But then again I have little or no use for red dot sights in general.

[sharpshooter94]

thanks for the wisdom guys