take a bead on vs take aim

take a bead on

verb
  • To aim a gun at something. 

take aim

verb
  • To position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at') 

  • To direct criticism (towards). 

How often have the words take a bead on and take aim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )