EricW, I was shooting skeet one afternoon, and doing very well. At the end of the day as I was putting my shotgun away, one of the other shooters came over to talk. He wanted to know how I liked shooting without the bead on the gun. I said I don't know as I have never tried it. He looked at me kind of funny, then said to look at my shotgun. I had been shooting all day without the bead and never knew it. I don't know what the moral of this story is, but I think it means I was finally seeing the bird. Avery53