would anyone here purchase $400 iron sights for a hd shotgun?

Status
Not open for further replies.
K

Klayface

Member
Joined
Jun 9, 2009
Messages
12
?? Well would you?

I ask because I see some people purchasing EOTECH holographic sights for a shotgun, seem pretty silly to me.

I purchased a red dot sight for my shotgun and I just installed them but now I feel, like okay how is this going to help? Did I give into the hype?

Anyone else feel this way?
 
i personally would not. i am fine with the factory bead sight on my 870. for a hd situation i am just going to aim center mass and unload with buck shot. the longest stretch in my house is maybe 20 yards? i'm not trying to make head shots from 100 yards or anything.

edited to note that by "aim" i meant "point"
 
Last edited:
I dunno, $400 will buy a lot of shotgun ammo. The last time I used one of my shotguns (today), I didn't even use the bead that is on the front of it.

BA/UU/R. If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.
 
Personally I wouldnt even think about sights for a shotgun! these are pellet/lead balls I dont think you will be pulling off 100-200 yard bulleye's shots. shotguns dont shoot stright(unless you use slug), there no point for $400 sights, I wouldnt add a sight to my shotgun it has a factory and all it needs. IMO....

P.S $400 could get you a new shotgun and/or alot of ammo
 
If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.
Click to expand...
+1

specially in a home defense situation. you should practice enough to feel comfortable pointing and clicking. unless you are using slugs, you'd have to be one horrible shot to COMPLETELY miss your target at those ranges.
 
If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.

+1

specially in a home defense situation. you should practice enough to feel comfortable pointing and clicking. unless you are using slugs, you'd have to be one horrible shot to COMPLETELY miss your target at those ranges.


+2 on this :D

If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.:D
 
pointless crap...good one chevy, get it? if you have holo sights you aren't pointing. :)

That said, if you use it primarily for slugs out to 50-75 yds, why not?
 
I ask because I see some people purchasing EOTECH holographic sights for a shotgun, seem pretty silly to me.

I purchased a red dot sight for my shotgun and I just installed them but now I feel, like okay how is this going to help? Did I give into the hype?

Anyone else feel this way?
Click to expand...

Regardless of sight nomenclature (holographic not being considered "iron sights" and all), I personally would not waste the money on such stuff (although, I have wasted my money on other items relating to shotguns, so I dont have much ground to stand on in that department). Now, for hunting purposes, maybe such a sight might be construed as useful. But, for HD (my main concern), it really makes no sense.

Give me a front bead sight please (for HD/close range) or maybe a GR sight for longer range slug use and Ill be happy. All else is fluff to me.
 
No need for any real sights on shotgun used exclusively for HD. Now if this might also be used to shoot slugs then you might want some rifle type sights. I guess I don't see why anyone would pay $400 for iron sights of any type.
 
was just thinking the same thing, with a few exceptions(riot, or spicial aps) there is no reason......been shooting beeds all my life, have some ghost rings and really like those, worse yet is a junk optic.
 
Heck no I wouldn't give 400 bucks for sights for a shotgun, I could buy 2 more shotguns for that.

20 buck turkey sights tho. look thru the red ring put the green light pipe in the center and kablamo.

Cheap laser on the folding stock one.
 
IMO a reasonably priced laser (not red dot) for slugs would be nice, sighted in at say 30 yds. That way you could still use the bead or "point method" at closer distances with shot. I'm thinking of home defense here.
 
My SNT with a pistol grip stock and a set of ghost ring sights cost around $470. After maneuvering inside a house with it, I don't see the need for a holographic sight on it. At those quarters, one of those would be a waste of money.
 
forget the holographic sight for the shotgun, if you got $400 to burn, buy another shotgun for the wifey to back up your shotgun, that sounds a bit more practical.
 
What a waste of money

I do not see the justification for it. Take that money and buy a good pump action gun or a coach gun and practice, practice and practice some more.
 
Nope. My Mossberg 500 came with an 18.5" barrel with rifle sights. I pulled that one and replaced it with an 18.5" barrel with a bead front sight. Irons (or scopes, or red dots) just get in the way on a HD shotgun (IMHO).
 
If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.
Click to expand...

Unless, of course, you're using you shotgun like a rifle - as some of us do.

specially in a home defense situation. you should practice enough to feel comfortable pointing and clicking. unless you are using slugs, you'd have to be one horrible shot to COMPLETELY miss your target at those ranges.
Click to expand...

I see guys do it all the time in matches - and they have a tendency to be farily well practiced.

In my experience, this becomes even more of a problem when you log lots of practice time on birdshot and switch over to buck for a match, class, or 'serious purposes'. The two tend to pattern differently. I had the misfortune of demonstrating this problem for a class when we ran drill, switched from bird to buck, and then ran the same drill again. The grooved 'point and click' chops that mowed down the targets with birdshot caused me to miss COMPLETELY a series of 8" steel plates at ~10 yards, when I was shooting golfball-sized patterns of TAP buckshot. It wasn't until I actually worked to get a proper sight picture that I started getting hits.

I purchased a red dot sight for my shotgun and I just installed them but now I feel, like okay how is this going to help? Did I give into the hype?
Click to expand...

You can objectively answer this question by getting out and running some drills on a timer. How do your times compare with and without the dot?
 
"Unless, of course, you're using you shotgun like a rifle"


If you're not shooting shot then it's not really a shotgun, is it? :)

It would still be a smoothbore, unless the bore is rifled, in which case it wouldn't be a shotgun or a smoothbore.

John
 
Agreeing with most posts, a HD shotgun doesn't need a sight. Spend your $ on another shotgun. I find a used Mossberg 500 with a 24" smooth bore-barrel with iron sights to be pretty handy for yard-vermin.

Les
 
If you're having to aim your shotgun, you're doing something wrong.
Click to expand...

I pretty much summed up my opinions regarding the OPs request, so Ill respond to this comment instead.

Frankly, I disagree (to a point). Whether using bead sights, GR sights, rifled sights, holographic sights...whatever, if hitting the mark (accurately and consistently) involves mounting/shouldering the weapon and placing the sight over the target (or anticipating the targets trajectory), in essence, you are aiming. Yes, the SG may be considered as a "point and shoot" weapon when compared to say, a handgun. But still, aiming is involved IMHO.

Now, if one were to go without sights alltogether, then I may consider such a weapon "point and shoot" only vs. an aimed weapon.

Ill now climb down from the pulpit.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

C
  • Locked
What kind of sights do you like on your HD shotguns
2
Replies
28
Views
1K
porterdog
P
Ohio Gun Guy
  • Locked
Red Dot on Mossberg HD Shotgun
Replies
4
Views
569
Dave McCracken
D
A
  • Locked
Can anyone tell me about U.A.G?
Replies
4
Views
1K
AcceptableUserName
A
V
  • Locked
Best all-around shotgun with modern electronic sight?
Replies
6
Views
313
JCooperfan1911
J
S
  • Locked
Does this HD shotgun exist?
Replies
4
Views
572
ArmandTanzarian
A
Back
Top