Many of Drews examples were certainly not heads up shooters, even in the early days. In addition to the high stock dimensions mentioned in Drew's study of recorded stock dimensions, Annie Oakley used very high dimension stocks both in her Lancaster and her Parker guns, suggesting that she shot with her cheek firmly buried on the comb. IN MY OPINION, open faced shooting style is best used with fairly open bored guns and when hitting all the marks shot at is not imperative for success. Examples would be when the targets are quite numerous and the easy ones can be shot at and the difficult ones passed up. Another example is shooting for no money. Again, in my opinion, closed face or cheek to stock style became popular when people started shooting for money and had to hit all the targets shot at and when wild game birds and fowl became less numerous. Drew mentions the case of Baron Wallingham (or whomever) who shot thousands of driven grouse with cylinder bored guns.
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