It would be interesting to drop a spare red dot on to a shotgun and report back our actual experiences after shooting a box of shells at clay birds.
When things are going well, wing shooting is instinctive and I’m not conscious of the barrel and bead. My stance is correct, I am swinging from my hips, watching the target, looking in front of it, and it powders. I’m told that looking at the barrel and bead isn’t the way to go, yet most of us keep the bead on the shotgun. Maybe some people take it off, maybe the bead is there but I am just not conscious of how it fits in the sight picture, I don’t know.
Rather than say “oh, everyone knows it doesn’t work for wing shooting but myself I have never tried it myself” I will say “if I had a spare dot sight laying about, I would try it, interesting thing to experiment on!”
My Fabarm L4s Hunter receiver is grooved for rings. For serious turkey or slug shooting a low power scope or red dot would be appreciated by my aging eyes, especially in dark woods at dusk and dawn.
When bird hunting, I don’t wear my glasses… or I miss. Mounting the gun jostles my corrective glasses and with gradient glasses the sight picture is completely messed up.
Cottage cheese wasn’t intended to be used in tuna fish sandwiches yet if you replace about 1/2 of the mayo with cottage cheese, you get a delicious sandwich. Try it and see.