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"In the Apparently Simple Matter of Holding a GUN" Sporting Life Nov. 12, 1898 Rich. Oliver, a well-known English shot, speaking of grouse shooting, says he does not recommend a too rigid attitude. A military position, be declared, quite wrong. He said if it could only be impressed upon young sportsmen that they should lean well forward upon their guns, with their heads also thrown forward, they would shoot much better. It is better to keep the left arm down toward the trigger as much as possible for this kind of shooting, as the leverage of the arm is so much better in that attitude. The Americans, as a class, are inclined to strike an attitude in which the left arm is stretched out toward the muzzle of the gun. The English style is the happy medium of all others. The greatest gunners are, of course, the English and Americans, but the Italians, shooting with English guns, have made rapid strides of late. A manufacturer made a collection of photographs of the members of a first-rate gun club, taken as they faced the trap, and at the word "pull." Of these crack shots there are not two who hold the gun exactly alike. Each shooter in some measure adapts himself to the gun he prefers. Charles Grimm, Clear Lake, Iowa won the Live Bird Tournament at the 1892 Chicago World's Fair and held the "Cast Iron" medal. He used a L.C. Smith in 1896-1899 and was second to Tom Marshall at the 1899 GAH.
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Walt, Has Annie's Ithaca 4E SBT been located? Thanks, Ross
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Walter c. Snyder
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I was hoping it was mine but my barrel is 30 inches and not a straight grip. The gun seems like it was set up for a woman. 270535T Was her's the early style flues?
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Notice how the Olympians have their cheek far forward and their thumb up on the comb. This way they can have shot to shot consistency on stock weld. Pure Genius.
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Guess it's not mine either, Reb. 34" barrel and a cheekpiece. Grimm IS striking a pose, Doc, he isn't cheeking, chin-ing or otherwise anchoring on the face. Draw a line connecting muzzle top, breech top and eye. Bet you it's a dogleg right. Scribbler probably correct about Americans and the splinter. Don Zutz was way out there on the barrels in every foto I've seen. But the Brits are crazy for those barrel "mitts" so they must put the fwd hand on the barrels also.
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This is a scanned c. 1904 pic from Field and Stream, March 1937 but it looks like Fred Gilbert might have been using one of those "mitts" & maybe a "boot" too
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Ross, 270535 went to Wanamaker's, Philadelphia, PA. 4/2/16. A very nice looking 4E. Hard to beat the engraving on the early SBTs.
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"Is Your Gun Too Crooked?" July 6, 1901 Sporting Lifehttp://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_16/SL3716022.pdf The Chamberlin Cartridge & Target Co. introduces the tie-on Rowley Pad “…for straightening a gun 1/8, 1/4, or 3/8 inches.” “Prevents flinching, and will greatly improve your scores…”
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Guns, Ammunition, and TackleAlbert William Money, Horace Kephart, W. E. Carlin, Abraham Lincoln Artmann Himmelwright, John Harrington Keene 1904 http://books.google.com/books?id=G5ECAAAAYAAJMuch depends upon a man's attitude and balance when in the act of shooting. As far as possible the whole body should be flexible and evenly balanced, from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head. Of course a man out after game cannot always choose the moment at which he will be called upon to shoot, and therefore cannot always have his body in the best position. But very often he can, as when standing in a blind waiting for wild-fowl, or when waiting for game to flush which his dogs have pointed. Nothing will so quickly show the necessity for acquiring the right way of holding the body when in the act of shooting than shooting at some clay pigeons or targets, thrown from a set of traps in such a way that you neither know where the target is coming from nor the direction it is going to take until it springs into view. This is one way target-shooting helps to make a good game shot. (The earliest description of what is now Sporting Clays?)Having got the right position, study to shoot in good time, neither too fast nor too slow. Be ready to snap as quick as lightning at a bird rising wild or in thick cover where only a momentary glimpse can be had of the object, but, on the other hand, never shoot too quickly at an object that is so close to you that your shot has not time to spread. Keep the head well up and both eyes open, so that you can see all that is going on and get in a good and quick second barrel if necessity requires. Keeping the head down low or shutting one eye are both faults of which no really good game shot is ever guilty.
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