What suits me is when I mount the gun and the two beads stack like an hourglass (in the case of a two bead gun, obviously. In the case of a gun with just the forward bead I'd be seeing just a tiny amount of rib surface). That usually results in the gun shooting flat for me, or maybe 60/40 high, which is fine. I do not like a really high shooting gun, like 80/20 or more. I've shot too much in my life with guns that shoot where I'm looking to try to adapt my style to a high shooting gun caused by too little drop. And, I refuse to "float" the bird over the muzzles to center the pattern of a high shooting gun. Doing that may be easy for a straight-in or straight-away bird. But, it's much harder to accomplish on a hard crosser that requires 6 feet of forward allowance.
I realize that there are vast differences in facial structure (how high the cheekbone is, etc.) that can make a gun shoot different for different people. It's tough for me to shoot well with anything less than 2 3/8" DAH, and even then I have to cheek it harder than normal. 2 1/2" to 2 5/8" is about perfect for me.
All my comments above concern shooting sporting clays or game. Trap would prolly be a whole 'nuther ball game.
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