Mossberg shooting low.

[LA_357SIG]

I have a Mossberg 500 with an ATI M4/AR type stock. Shooting with the bead it was about 3-4 inches low @ 7 yards. then I put a Hi-Vis Fiber Optic sight w/ no rear sight on it and I am still shooting low.

Are shotgun stocks sopposed to be positioned lower than rifle stocks on the chest/shoulder?
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[DOG33]

Remove the sight and raise it up just a little with a spacer. This will bring it upwhere you need it to be. "Worked for me"
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[Gunfixr]

Since when does raising the front sight raise the point of impact???

[DOG33]

Since now! Since you must be holding the secret to this answer why dont you try and help him. My shotgun was shooting low. I removed the front sight and added a spacer. The gun shoots on now. If i have performed a miricle thats just the kinda guy I am.
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[Blitzer]

Originally posted by LA_357SIG
I have a Mossberg 500 with an ATI M4/AR type stock. Shooting with the bead it was about 3-4 inches low @ 7 yards. then I put a Hi-Vis Fiber Optic sight w/ no rear sight on it and I am still shooting low.

Are shotgun stocks sopposed to be positioned lower than rifle stocks on the chest/shoulder?
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/chrisq_01/DCP_0015.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/chrisq_01/DCP_0013.jpg


Nice shooter you have there.

No choke tube? Which shell?

Retrain to raise your the point of aim and check the placement of the butt pad on your shoulder.

The position in which the shotgun goes to your should will effect the point of aim and impact considerably. With a conventional stock one welds themselves, by practice, to it until the same position is obtained every time you handle the gun. It is recommended one handles an unloaded gun many times by bringing it from your waist to your shoulder over and over again until it is natural. Like Karate repeat the moves until they are fluid and natural.

I had an Army instructor teach me to put the butt pad in the same spot over the Acromion near the rotator cuff.

http://www.uchospitals.edu/images/gs/ei_0382.jpg

Practice raising the butt stock to your shoulder consistently every time, have someone evaluate your weld to the stock. Are you putting the butt high on the shoulder or is the top of the butt pad flush with the top of the shoulder? Raising the butt 1" will make that kind of impact on the P.O.A. and make it shoot 3" low at 7 yards.

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With practice I learned how my 870 patterned with a particular load. In time I could take one pop can off a stack of 4 pop cans one can at a time. I had to keep that butt placement on my should the same every time I picked up the gun. ;)