I haven't used one for years. During a lesson, a coach made me remove it. I never saw a need to put it back on. The only thing I use it for is to check that my mount is straight down the barrel, but you really don't need a bead for that. I have a small mid bead as well and it works fine for alignment purposes. I'd caution anyone beyond a new shooter that you should always be looking at the bird, not the barrel. That's one of the quickest ways to stop the gun mid swing.

One of the first things I learned after getting my 525 Sporting with the HI Viz front bead, is that my eye was drawn to the bead no matter what color the light tube I had in. So to solve this problem I've blacked out an all white light tube using a sharpie marker. I had messed with the idea one time after a light tube broke on me right before I went out on the course and I couldn't find my extra tubes. That day I shot with no front light tube,but I found myself looking through the hole where the light tube was suspose to be. My scores continue to improve now that I removed the distraction.