More Drop, please

[edgarspencer]

This thread is making me feel better, not at shooting, but knowing I am not alone.
I get what Bill is saying and, at least theoretically, it would serve the same purpose as lowering the heel. A golf Tee stuck on the front, painted flat black, except for the white tip would weigh less.
When I'm shooting my best, it's with a red headed stepchild no one wanted. It came missing it's front bead, or it was loose; I don't remember which. I took it off because I didn't want to loose it, and the only reason I put it back on was that I was tired of everyone telling me it wasn't there. "How the hell do you hit anything without a front sight?" usually said as though the shot string was going to make a hard right upon exiting the muzzle. The only thing I want to see is the bird, and now that I've got glasses that correct for an astigmatism, I only see one bird.

[BRDHNTR]

John, I have the same problem with my 20 ga Parker Repro with 28 inch barrels
Shoot too Damm high for me and I just can't bring myself after all these years to change the way I naturally bring my guns up to my shoulder etc. It's time to get rid of it and replace it with a 20 or 28 ga that fits me like my other shotguns. I'll be posting it in the for sale section soon. Just need to figure out how to post pics.

[Dean Romig]

Allen - Get a Repro 28 gauge. I know you probably already have one but you need another in a different configuration.





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[BRDHNTR]

Dean, my 28 ga Repro has 26 inch barrels. What other configuration are you thinking? I do like the 28..

[Stan Hillis]

The larger front bead definitely will make it shoot lower. I have done this myself on a shotgun that had a plain barrel, and no rib or front "ramp" for the bead. Even though I don't ever focus on the bead it's in my field of unfocused view and I'm aware of it. When this method was suggested to me I had serious doubts but ordered a couple larger beads in the right thread size and tried it anyway. It worked perfectly. Brought the pattern down several inches at 25 yards.

[Big D]

Ain't gonna go that way. When I bought the gun, it was a 98% piece. I bastardized it by opening up the F/F chokes to IC/Mod. Sure, purists would have my head, but a lot more folk would like to a more flexible configuration IMHO. Financially, your suggestion, I think, would be a bath. Money spend to have the comb lowered, then the deterioration of market value says to me "No ****ing way"

[Mike of the Mountain]

You can work the comb yourself. Not a difficult job. If you want to shoot it and it does not shoot properly for you, I’d sell it. You already opened the chokes so why not lower the comb. A nice looking gun that doesn’t fit won’t shoot where it needs to and is better off going down the road.

[Stan Hillis]

Floating a bird or target is just unnatural to a shooter. If a person learned to shoot a high patterning shotgun that way, and never picked up another gun, it would still yield inconsistent results. I had a dear friend who shot that way. He was a dove shooter, quail hunter and several of us began shooting sporting clays together. We all wanted desperately to improve our game at sporting, and we did, but Charles plateaued out in the high 60s. One of our friends tried to tell Charles that floating the bird was part of his problem but he adamantly insisted he'd always shot that way and it wasn't an issue. To prove his point he pointed his gun to the top of a pine tree and easily knocked a pine cone off the limb. He looked at his buddy and said "See!". His buddy said "Yep, it works for you, almost 70% of the time.". Charles realized it then, and hung his head.

[mobirdhunter]

Please don’t think I’m arguing—I’m not. You all have more shots fired (experience) than I, but in 60 plus years of shooting, and keeping records for the last 40, I’m okay with shooting 65% on wild quail. It’s natural to me to float the bird and I know when I really “see” the bird, I’ll generally hit it.

Besides, someone has to own those high stocked, straight/splinter two trigger guns.

[Big D]

One last try

New thought. Anyone got a "regular" stock for a 2 frame taking up space in your shop?