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No, I would just say that sights on shotguns cause more problems for some people than they solve.

Sights come in handy when the target is a Gobbler's head...Geo

That's true if you are "aiming" it like a rifle for turkey or deer but not so much if you are "pointing" it for wingshooting.

Personally, i never see, or look for the sights when shooting at a clay or bird......BUT, I MOST DEFINITELY use the sight/s rib when mounting the gun to get shouldering feel, for that reference that i am mounting the gun properly. All that said, if i am shooting trap,with a field gun, i,will conciously make certain that i can see the entire surface of the rib as i set up in the "mounted" position.

Finally, i think that the eye and brain either subliminally, or just happens faster that we realize, use that sight as a reference when shooting instinctively.

Finally, this conversation digresses greatly from the topic, but interesting nonetheless.

I do agree with Stan and Hunterman that most of us subliminally "see" the rib and sights when shooting. If we had a ribless gun then our eye subliminally uses the barrel as its sighting reference. The point is to not focus on the sights like you are supposed to with a rifle or a handgun.

Of course I am speaking about wingshooting here as opposed to the various target games that allow/encourage a pre-mounted gun. In skeet and sporting clays that can have the unintended consequence of the shooter focusing on the sight(s) instead of the target. That is the "kiss of death" as we all know.

Last, I would just say that we all must not have had anything better to do on a Saturday night than to discuss the optics involved in accurately pointing a shotgun at a moving target. Great fun though and interesting.