Tactical shotgun sights? Optics? What?

[Hazcat]

The FO will show up in any light conditions you can see the target in.

FO is fine...it's just a 'fancy' bead. 

[long762range]

 

Wait.

You bought a Maverick 88 and you want ideas about new sights?

Would you put chrome headers on a Kia too?















 

[m25operator]

With the stock bead or FO, you can hit a dove doing 60 mph at 30 yards, sounds like a sighting system that is hard to beat. Using a bead, most modern shotguns can hit a piece of notebook paper at 50 yards using slugs.

I used ghost rings for about 2 years in tactical competition, slowed me way down, as soon as I went to a bead again, times got a lot faster. I have used a Tasco PDP4, 40 mm red dot, and it is fast, but not very durable if you like to use your equipment hard.

[fightingquaker13]

With the stock bead or FO, you can hit a dove doing 60 mph at 30 yards, sounds like a sighting system that is hard to beat. Using a bead, most modern shotguns can hit a piece of notebook paper at 50 yards using slugs.

I used ghost rings for about 2 years in tactical competition, slowed me way down, as soon as I went to a bead again, times got a lot faster. I have used a Tasco PDP4, 40 mm red dot, and it is fast, but not very durable if you like to use your equipment hard.

Doves will be shot with the Parker. This is for bad guys across the street post hurricane.
FQ13

[Tyler Durden]

I have no idea if this Maverick shotgun has a ventilated rib running down the barrel.

What I did with my one 3 gun Remington 1100 was to add the Williams "slugger" fiber optic fire sight:

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=16144&title=UNIVERSAL%20

With the windage and adjustable rear fiber optic sight, I was getting really good kinda accurate hits with slugs.  But I figured there had to be something faster that would be a good compromise between birdshot and slug accuracy.

And then I paid real close attention to what the Army Marksmanship Training Unit guys were using in their shotgun reloading video.

There was some sort of custom hood clamped onto the rib of one of their Benelli's.

so what I did was engineer up the same sort of thing.  I used a really small hose clamp, clamped to the rib.  I think the hose clamp was sold in a package of like 10 of 'em.  It was originally meant to be a fuel line hose clamp, maybe for the injectors.

It does look rather "engineered" but it does work, especially since I kept the same front fiber optic clamped onto the rib also.

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