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But what about his fingers? I do the same as those guys with my thumb and for the reason stated by rabbit. My fingers are on the side of the barrel though.

Best,

Mike

Homeless,
So you wrap your fingers around the barrel do you?
Do you shoot well?
If yes, then you are very good/

OK I'm no expert. Roy's gun looks a better fit, head on the stock, back from his hand and the stance/look appears to be someone holding a gun that is a reasonable to good fit.

The second photo is someone (like me) trying to shoot a gun that is too small in length. I'd shove a butt pad on it. But if he shoots well like that then he's better than me!

Pete and Mike: There are some photos of Don Zutz illustrating the "bayonet thrust" mount in The Double Shotgun in which it appears Don has all fingers wrapped atop the barrels. Maybe poke and hope is all you need or all you have time for on grouse in which case it wouldn't much matter how many fingers in the way. I always extend the index finger along the bottom of a splinter or aside a big forend on an o/u cause somebody said I'd shoot better. Boy were they. . . WRONG!

E.D. Fulford at Watson's Park, Chicago Dec. 1897, won the 1898 GAH at Live Birds
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfg2hmx7_319dj27s2ch



C.W. Budd "Iowa Indian" won the American Field Cup in 1889, emblematic of the Pigeon Championship of America.

Looks like Fulford is stripping that teat a la HOJO. I'd call that an off shoulder off cheek preview--a cheated premount for those can never get used to the stasis of the premount. And t'other one's getting ready to hipshoot the incomer on 7. Fulford appears to be walking the plank; wouldn't have yrd. lines on it would it? Other one obviously studio-posed.

jack

I shoot okay. Usually get my limit of doves out of a box of shells...a limit of mallards using a couple of extra shells and a few fall turkeys on the wing each year.

I don't daintily hold onto the splinter like I'm scared my barrels are going to blow...

I grip the barrels at the very front of the forearm which I thought was the proper way ?

Joe & Drew,
I was asking if you wrapped your fingers around the barrel habitually? If you do what happens is you build a memory file of what birds/targets look like to you. You retain those visions and apply them when necessary and probably shoot well.
BUT the whole business of fitting a sighting rib is to focus your vision on the target obviously if your digits are in the way you are obscuring the rib. It actually is a case of each to his own, I have a friend who has won the British Skeet championship umpteen times and been an England International for 25 years and he has never cheeked his stock!

salopian,
I think what jOe is saying is that he grips the sides of the barrels with his fingers, I doubt if he actually wraps his fingers around the barrels, thereby obscuring the sights. Jeeeeez!

And whatthehell is wrong with me, it's 2:58am and I'm sitting in front of my computer defending jOe and not sleeping, double jeeeeez!!!
Steve

It is indeed a sad World, with so many bad things going on when someone takes their time defending HomelessjOe.