Red dot sight on shotguns

[palmer_mike]

@palmer_mike

Does your Hatsan have a receiver like this?

If you do, it looks to me like you have dovetail slots in the top of the receiver.

If so, you might get something like this to work:

The mount is a quick release mount for dovetails made by Recknagel: Recknagel - Accessories for Hunting Rifles - Catalog › Recknagel

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(Page 14 of the PDF, P25 of the Catalgue.)

If you can stick a micrometer on your dovetail slots, you might find one of those things on the right might fit.

(Alan Rhone supplies them)

I have a couple, might have one that fits your rail?

Scrummy

It’s an 11mm dovetail….
If you had one that fitted I’d like to buy it from you but seems that AR only do them from 12mm up?

 

[scrumbag]

It’s an 11mm dovetail….
If you had one that fitted I’d like to buy it from you but seems that AR only do them from 12mm up?

Hi Mike,

Will drop you a PM.

Scrummy

 

[enfieldspares]

Complete non-starter I'd have thought. To shoot a moving bird or clay you'd need to point the red dot at a piece of sky and then you wouldn't see it. If you point the red dot at the target, in the majority of occasions you're going to miss.

Shooting a moving target with a shotgun requires you to be able to look at the target, not the gun or any sighting system. In order to hit what you're looking at you need to be certain that the gun is shooting exactly where you are looking, and that depends on gun fit, correct mount and correct technique.

I'd disagree in that's not 100% correct. A Greener GP can be shot like a rifle and I've managed 21 ex 25 on English Skeet doing so (taking all the birds of course as singles). Also can shotguns fited with "rifle" sights as in the Remington 870 Police that has a ramp foresight and rear adjustable Williams style backsight.

But mostly all the other things that come and go are, mostly, gimmicks. You either need for normal birdgunning or clsayshooting to have the gun fit you or make yourself (by how you hold it and how you place your head to it) fit the gun as in both cases the front sight as such is the bead and the rear sight is your own Mark I eyeball.

 

[Founders]

Complete non-starter I'd have thought. To shoot a moving bird or clay you'd need to point the red dot at a piece of sky and then you wouldn't see it. If you point the red dot at the target, in the majority of occasions you're going to miss.

Shooting a moving target with a shotgun requires you to be able to look at the target, not the gun or any sighting system. In order to hit what you're looking at you need to be certain that the gun is shooting exactly where you are looking, and that depends on gun fit, correct mount and correct technique.

Agree

 

[Bowland blades]

Does anybody use a red dot on their shotguns whether for clays or fowling etc. Any info would be great.

Totally not whats required! Never aim a shotgun at a bird in flight especially geese ! And heck where would you even put the dot ? Could you hit one of them turbo teal streaking down a channel by putting a red don't on it calibrated for speed lol
Forget it useca shotgun that shoots where you need it to swing though on its line and your brain will tel, your finger to squeeze when the right picture appears