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.
Last edited by jdickson397; 09/11/16 09:52 AM.
