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Anyone else enjoy shooting with a high rib on your SxS? Perhaps a sin to purists, but I find I shoot much better with the high ribs such as was imported in the past by SKB. Am I the only one to confess? I really enjoy shooting clays with my 28 and 410.

Not a popular configuration, but it works for me.
UA 215, vent rib, single trigger, BT forearm.

High, flat, file cut ribs for me. The wider the better. I don't care for sunken, deeply concave ribs.

I won't buy a gun without a rib. I suggested to someone on here several months ago that when they bought a specific gun they should try to get one with a rib. That was just my opinion. They told me they don't need a rib on a gun that you're supposed to look at the target and not the gun. I always felt that your peripheral vision was lining up SOMETHING with the target. Whether it is a bead, the barrel, a rib, etc. So I like having a rib. I know I will get a lot of slack for saying it again, but oh well. I like seeing a rib when I point my gun at a target. Good luck.

No swamped ribs for me either.
A 21 with a vent rib was always my dream gun.

A game rib works just fine shooting rough (or Ruff?) for me, but on targets the sighting plane of a taller rib seems to offer some advantages. That smaller clay target moving fast (and at greater distances) seems to require something of a more "precise" nature. Blasphemy....I know.

Shoot a 410 sxs. The small barrels are the rib.

I believe that which rib one prefers is in most part subjective. Those who claim the value of a high rib are right for themselves and those like them, as our those who proclaim the game rib, swamped rib, Churchill rib etc.

Gunmakers have long tried to meet market demand and sell guns to deliver that certain something. Sometimes they got it right, sometimes right for some but not all, sometimes the gimmicks were just that.

As each of us experiment with what works for them and find it, if it works for them then I am good with it.

The same is true for so many aspects of shooting.

BTW I like game ribs and shoot two swamped rib guns quite well.

I like to see the target right over my bead and watch it break. If there is a mid-bead I want it right behind the front bead, no figure eight stacking, but I see a little rib; I’m not looking perfectly flat down the rib. In terms of 50/50 or 60/40, it’s closer to 60/40. I don’t generally use a pattern board unless I feel the POI is off.

I hear you. I’m a deliberate pattern shooter on any new gun I acquire. I built my own 4 X 4 steel plate just for this. I want to see two things when I pattern a gun of mine ….. first, that the two barrels print atop each other. Then, that the pattern is about 60/40. I asked only out of curiosity. Thanks.

I’ve got two adjustable high rib sporting guns and two flat rib sporting guns. I shoot all of them equally good or bad depending on the day😀.They’re set up for me to look straight down the rib and they all shoot to the same 60-40. I don’t get the stacked bead concept.

It depends on the individual, I believe. I know guys that like it 100% high or 90/10, stuff like that. It all seems very obscure to me but trapshooters can be a particular bunch. Maybe there’s a trapshooter who could discuss his preference or use of the beads?

I’m with Stan in this one. Most of the trap shooters I know would consider 60/40 a flat shooting gun. 90/10 or 100/0 is not unheard of.

Speaking of shooting at "stationary" sporting clays targets .............. my friend Bill McGuire taught me to never shoot a teal target at the top. If you have a choice, shoot it just after it starts down and has shown you its line. If there's a true pair of teal it's usually best to shoot the first one rising, "under power", then catch the second just after it starts down. Trying to catch it at the top, when it briefly appears motionless, is a recipe for disaster. The timing is too crucial.

Shooting a gun with a "built in lead", for rising targets, is like driving a truck that has a front end set up to pull to the right, to keep you out of oncoming traffic. It's useless for anything else.

I know accomplished sporting clays shooters who can do well on a skeet course, or a trap course. But, I've never met a dedicated trap shooter who can shoot anything else worth a darn, or who even tries. That's not an indictment of everyone who shoots trap, just a personal observation. Trap shooters, and skeet shooters, can be very close minded. I know a lady who was a GA Ladies skeet champion. Her and her husband were at the top fo the game in accomplishments. They tried to shoot a round of sporting clays on a local course that one of my best friends had just shot a 96/100 on. She shot something like 37/100. Her husband declared there were targets on that course that could not be broken with a shotgun.

Jimmy,

For the record:
I shot my way up the NSCA ranks many moons ago using a bone stock 32” Beretta 687EELL Monte Carlo Trap gun.

I agree a Ljutic Space gun would likely be a poor choice for a sporting gun.🤪

I have always wanted to shoot a round of SC with a Ljutic Bi-Gun. Once would probably be enough!

Best regards,
Ken