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However according our experience the pattern of the shots are giving us the good
idea that must be shooting to more yards in the same way.
The words of Mr. Usibiago at Grulla support the idea that patterns that are coincident at the yardage of regulation are coincident at all ranges. To say that "patterns converge" at a certain ydage is a geometric fallacy. jack
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Does the same for fat-faced, beady-eyed me, Mike. But the "lever" created by doglegging the stock hither or yon does give the shot from the offside barrel a bit of "law" as Thomas called it. Simple matter of the kick stick displacing laterally off a fulcrum. Least that's what Garwood says, even a goofy train driver like old Guffy couldn't have got THAT wrong, could he?
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I had a simular experience once, but found three factors that I feel certain contributed. First I hate to shoot a shotgun from a benchrest(it hurts), two- I can't see the rear sight on a rifle very well nor the top of the fences on a shotgun and third- my shotgun doesn't fit me when I shoot off a bench and I believe the arguement used against most SxSs for pro trap is that fit is more critical and the mount needs to be more precise. I admit my guns don't fit me as they should but one and two probably had more to do with my misplaced patterns than fit and in the end it wasn't the gun.
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"...the barrels must be so set that the axes of the bores are not parallel but slightly converging, being closer together at the muzzle than at the breech. ...if the barrels were set with their axes parallel there would be considerable difference between their shooting. ... "
"When the right barrel is fired, the recoil tends to throw the muzzle out to the right since the axis of the barrel is situated to the right of the center of gravity of the gun. {states the same for left barrel to the left. ed} ... this effect is eliminated by setting the barrels with their axes slightly converging..."
Burrard - THE MODERN SHOTGUN - Barnes 1961 reprint pp 31, 32.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Anybody? No dispute with Sir Gerald? There usually isn't.
As it turns out, the 'train driving' was done a couple hundred years ago when gunmakers affixed two barrels side by side on the same stock.
The value of this board in connecting the fans of the double barreled shotgun with the actual, true, facts of their design, manufacture and use is obvious.
But, as the good Mr. Boyd points out, there is much information here that just isn't so.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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