spend the 40 bucks or put it in the scope
12-25-2007, 06:00 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: spend the 40 bucks or put it in the scope
I have owned the exact same gun and I put a scope rail on it with a red dot for a while. There is no way you can CORRECTLY line up on the beads with a scope rail on the reciever. You may be able to see them if you pick your head up, but you can't be lined up with them correctly. It is simply impossible because of the height of the rail. In order to use the beads with a scope rail you would have to have pretty bad shooting form.
Even with a non magnified sighting device you still have the same problem. The sight is mounted to the receiver and the barrel is not pinned or fixed to the receiver. So the barrel can shift ever so slightly or the point of aim can change when you remove the barrel to clean it or swap to a different type of barrel.
It may not be as noticable with a red dot because it is not magnified, especially if shooting at shorter ranges like say for turkey hunting with a super full choke. The margin for error may not be enough to really notice as much. However if you were trying to shoot slugs out to 60 or 70 yards the difference might be enough to miss or wound a deer. You would need to check your zero often and for sure if the barrel was removed and replaced.
I took the red dot and scope rail off mine after a short time and went with the fiber optic open sights. They were much lighter, lower profile, worked better and I didn't have to worry about the battery going dead on me.
Paul
Even with a non magnified sighting device you still have the same problem. The sight is mounted to the receiver and the barrel is not pinned or fixed to the receiver. So the barrel can shift ever so slightly or the point of aim can change when you remove the barrel to clean it or swap to a different type of barrel.
It may not be as noticable with a red dot because it is not magnified, especially if shooting at shorter ranges like say for turkey hunting with a super full choke. The margin for error may not be enough to really notice as much. However if you were trying to shoot slugs out to 60 or 70 yards the difference might be enough to miss or wound a deer. You would need to check your zero often and for sure if the barrel was removed and replaced.
I took the red dot and scope rail off mine after a short time and went with the fiber optic open sights. They were much lighter, lower profile, worked better and I didn't have to worry about the battery going dead on me.
Paul
12-25-2007, 06:25 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
RE: spend the 40 bucks or put it in the scope
i think i will go with thefiber optic sights or a cantiliver barrelor i just real though about it i wont thenlfor deer since i canse it in gun season aswell as ml and the only time i need the12ga i if my dad goes and i can just had him the ml which means i can take my bow he can take the ml and i got both bases covered anyway
