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Gordie Grand Master

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I got set up this afternoon an a local lake with my diver decoys and loaded up my browning gold and then pulled out my second gun and loaded it up as I was setting the second gun down a flock of mallards cruz by I grab my trusty browning and as the duck swing around about 40 yrds out I throw up the gun and in total amazement the front site is gone. Needless to say I did even shoot at the ducks cause I was wondering where the he!! the site went. I shove my hand down the gun case and low and behold there it is the screw came out and I found that too. but the site was bent and I didnt have a small screwdriver with to put it back on. so I unloaded it and put it away. and well lets just say that the second gun came in handy. I got one bluebill and one buffie the stoger did its job. so now I have to fix the browning. I try and always take two guns just in case something like this happens.

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Even though I have a semi auto 12 and 20 gauge I always bring my trusty 870 with. Unless I quit cleaning it and let it rust I don't know how you could ever break that thing. Nice to have an old trusty with cause you never know.

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Ufatz Grand Master

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Now I find that very interesting. To the best of my recollection I've never SEEN the front bead on any of my shotguns. I'll have to start checking in the morning to see if any of them even HAVE one.

But then I learned to shoot a long time ago in an old fashioned way.

Sorry to hear you had gun troubles.

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Gordie Grand Master

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I know you point a shotgun not aim it and I will be probally pointing my browning now cause I just found out that the hole for the screw is striped out dont know how it happend but it did and its already the oversize screw for the hi vis sight so going to be point shooting in the morning grin

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I never thought I'd miss a front bead, either, until one actually fell off. I was very surprised I noticed, but it was very obvious.

i thought the reason for the second gun was because guns are cool and one is never enough.

I bring two whenever it is convenient - generally one for ducks and the other for geese.

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Just out of curiousity have any of you that say that you shouldnt even notice the sight ever tried shooting a shotgun without the front sight? I understand that you dont aim and concentrate on the sight but there is a reason it is there. In my opinion you subconciously or something like that still see the sight when you "point" and shoot. If sights are not neeeded why do professional shooters still have them on there guns? And why are Hi Viz sights so popular?

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Ufatz Grand Master

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I will concede that a bead, or even TWO beads, has been a pretty standard item on trap and skeet guns for a long time. The danger with putting glo beads and that sort of thing on the average guys scatter gun is that a fella who does not shoot a lot will start to AIM his shotgun at a duck or pheasant and that usually leads to all sorts of shooting trouble. I learned to shoot "instinctively", with handgun and shotgun. But I've also shot a few gazillion rounds of clay birds and, while I am not usually aware of the bead, it MAY aid the eye in tracking the muzzles, which is NOT a bad thing when shooting claybirds. Hard for some folks to understand and I guess I may not be getting the point across very well either.

Oh well, what the hell: do it YOUR way! Ha Ha!!

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Have you ever been checked by the DNR while using two guns?

I use a 12ga and 10ga while field hunting many times when we know mallards and geese are using the field. 2 seasons ago 4 of us all got checked by the GW, and we all had 10's and 12's. He didn't say much other than something like wow thats a lot of fire power. He checked each gun and all the shells we had. As he was checking a flock of geese came right in, he stopped checking and said you guys can shoot em!! We limited out on geese and shot 4 mallards that day.

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I agree with you guys totally. But I do think glo sights have there place on the average guys gun. Probably hleps some guys and hurts some guys. I think that it allows u to still concentrate on the target while being able to "see" the sight. Tough to explain i guess lol. I do remember shooting my old Mossberg one time after losing my front sight and I did hit some stuff. But I prefer having a sight on the end.

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