Thoughts on the Novak style 3-dot sights on my 590a1..

[AcceptableUserName]

I don't know what to make of them yet. Seems like they may slow me down like the Ghost Rings I had on one of my 590's did. I've put 50 rounds through it and I guess I did O.K.... If you've read any of my posts I'm pretty against most everything on a defensive shotgun except a bead...unless the gun is primarily used for slugs. These 3-dots I assume are used as just as pistol sights are...which I guess is ok because I like to think I shoot pistol instinctively as well, aiming if I had the luxury and using the front blade if speed mattered. What are your thoughts on the 3-dot system on a shotgun? Is it a good middle ground between a bead and say, an optic or ghost ring setup? If I wanted to could I learn to basically use my front blade as a bead?

Lastly, how hard would it be to have a gunsmith remove these soldered on sights CLEANLY from the heavy-walled barrel?

 

[Youngster]

I usually find open type sights to be a nice all around compromise on a shotgun, but that's talking about the skinnier, easier to overlook sights like those on 870s and Ithacas and not big blocky suckers like these new Mossbergs appear to be.

As for cutting them off, probably not worth it by far. I'd buy another barrel or trade it before doing that.

 

[Fred Fuller]

It'd be a lot cheaper to learn to use the ghost ring properly, than to buy new sights and have them installed. The trick with GRs is to not look AT the rear sight but to just look through it as if it wasn't there. Your eye will pick up the front post (paint the front post orange if you can't see it) and automatically center it up in the aperture, once you learn to get your conscious "now I gotta aim this thing" thought processes out of the way. Using a GR should be every bit as automatic- and just as fast- as using a bead, IF you're doing it right- and if your gun fits you properly. That's always the big thing with shotguns- gun fit.

I started out with the old GI 'night sight' rear aperture (they had tritium front sights in the set) on an AR-15 in the early 1980s, and have been a GR fan ever since. It just takes getting your mind out of the way and letting your brain do what it does automatically to use GRs effectively.

JMHO. YMMV,

lpl