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I have a number of shotguns that have mid-beads. The only time I notice them is while cleaning or oiling the barrels. A fair percentage of Syracuse Lefevers have them, so I've assumed they were a factory option, but can't confirm that.
I cant ever recall noticing any mid-bead while shooting. I suspect that if I tried concentrating on lining up or stacking front and mid-beads with a moving target, that it would negatively affect my shooting. They always seemed like a sort of trap shooting gimmick for repeated presentations to me.
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I like a mid-bead as a training aid. Especially on a newer shotgun. It helps me satisfy myself that the shotgun is mounted properly and that it will shoot where I am looking. I don't use it as a sighting device or aid. I just look at the target over the barrel and shoot. Seems to work for me.
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That’s a gun club shooting aid.
If you are a hunter, ain’t no way you are stacking beads on the flush.
I have guns with, and without. Makes no difference.
Kind of like the fins on the late ‘50’s cars.
Out there doing it best I can.
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I like a mid-bead as a training aid. Especially on a newer shotgun. It helps me satisfy myself that the shotgun is mounted properly and that it will shoot where I am looking. I don't use it as a sighting device or aid. I just look at the target over the barrel and shoot. Seems to work for me. 🙂 .
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I like a mid-bead as a training aid. Especially on a newer shotgun. It helps me satisfy myself that the shotgun is mounted properly and that it will shoot where I am looking. I don't use it as a sighting device or aid. I just look at the target over the barrel and shoot. Seems to work for me. .
Last edited by Jimmy W; 02/19/25 09:03 AM.
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for me its like engraving or rib matting, it makes the gun pretty to look at, in use I see the target not the gun
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IMO, useless in practice for everything except pre-mounted shotgunning. But, they are cute.
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I had a lesson at the long-established Holland & Holland shooting school in west London some year ago.
The side-by-side that they provided me with to use had NO beads at all. I commented on this, and they replied "Just concentrate on the head of the bird, sir."
It works...
HB
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