On the Defensive type shotgun.
I have been fortunate enough to have taken a defensive type shotgun class using both types of sights and decided that I was much more effective using rifle type sights. In other words, I missed a lot more using ghost ring sights. Someone recently asked me about that and it got me thinking about it. After all, it seems like most of the semi-custom, tricked out defensive shotguns come with ghost ring sights.
After very little thought, I came up with the following idea. Ghost ring sights, as I understand them, are designed to provide a very rapid sight for up close, fast targets. I believe that the first I ever heard of them was in the context of a safari/African hunting type rifle where you wanted the reliability/duribility of iron sights with the ability to get a decent sight picture at a charging lion or whatever. The problem is that with a shotgun, that is exactly what we use buckshot for. The up-close, rapid response type target. When we need to make a more distant, precision shot, we select slug. So when we are making that precision, distant shot, we need a more precision sight and not a fast/up close sight it would seem to me.
As I said earlier, this seems to be true in my own experience. I always figured that I was not getting my eye in the same place, every time, behind the great big peep sight and therefore not getting consistent accuracy. Maybe it is a cheekweld problem, maybe it is just that the sight aperature is too large. With the more traditional "rifle" type sights. The alignment is more critical and slower but more consistent. And again, when you are making a shot with a slug, you are shooting beyond the range of buckshot with a single projectile: very much like shooting a rifle.
Your thoughts ?
I have been fortunate enough to have taken a defensive type shotgun class using both types of sights and decided that I was much more effective using rifle type sights. In other words, I missed a lot more using ghost ring sights. Someone recently asked me about that and it got me thinking about it. After all, it seems like most of the semi-custom, tricked out defensive shotguns come with ghost ring sights.
After very little thought, I came up with the following idea. Ghost ring sights, as I understand them, are designed to provide a very rapid sight for up close, fast targets. I believe that the first I ever heard of them was in the context of a safari/African hunting type rifle where you wanted the reliability/duribility of iron sights with the ability to get a decent sight picture at a charging lion or whatever. The problem is that with a shotgun, that is exactly what we use buckshot for. The up-close, rapid response type target. When we need to make a more distant, precision shot, we select slug. So when we are making that precision, distant shot, we need a more precision sight and not a fast/up close sight it would seem to me.
As I said earlier, this seems to be true in my own experience. I always figured that I was not getting my eye in the same place, every time, behind the great big peep sight and therefore not getting consistent accuracy. Maybe it is a cheekweld problem, maybe it is just that the sight aperature is too large. With the more traditional "rifle" type sights. The alignment is more critical and slower but more consistent. And again, when you are making a shot with a slug, you are shooting beyond the range of buckshot with a single projectile: very much like shooting a rifle.
Your thoughts ?