Straight/low drop stocks

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by jeffery c

Were most straight, even low drop stocks intended for trap, in your opinion?

Yes, definitely. Times have changed but one thing about shotgunning hasn't. If your comb is too high the only way you're going to hit a bird that isn't rising is to float it above the bead/muzzles. And, that is a recipe for poor shooting. 60/40, possibly 65/35 pattern placement is about as high as most people can shoot well, for various target/game presentations.

Personally, I can shoot a gun with a little too much drop better than I can one with too little. Burying your cheek hard on the comb, to get the gun to shoot lower, is distracting at best and often leads to a bruised cheek as well. It's much easier to cheek a comb lightly, on a gun with lots of drop, than it is to cheek one hard that has too little drop.

[B. Dudley]

Here is a 32" 20g. VH that I restored last year. It was restocked to exactly match the original stock which had been damaged at the head. It has a full comb and straight comb. 1-5/8" at comb and heel. It lettered exactly as such.

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[6pt-Sika]

From years and years of shooting skeet and trap birds with a gun that was pretty much 70/30 with all the barrels I truely love floating the bird . Sometimes now with field guns I have to make a mental note not to float the bird . This falls back on something I was grumbling about not to long ago . Shooting the same K-32 and just changing barrels or insert tubes was way easier to constantly shoot well as opposed to shooting ten different guns in the various SxS classes . It’s also a bit intensive to try and shoot all ten regularly to maintain the feel for them all . But ............. this is supposed to be fun

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

Here is a 32" 20g. VH that I restored last year. It was restocked to exactly match the original stock which had been damaged at the head. It has a full comb and straight comb. 1-5/8" at comb and heel. It lettered exactly as such.

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Taken from the letter.

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

Here is a 32" 20g. VH that I restored last year. It was restocked to exactly match the original stock which had been damaged at the head. It has a full comb and straight comb. 1-5/8" at comb and heel. It lettered exactly as such.

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Thanks, Brian, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Does anyone else have a gun with similar dimensions?