Drop at Comb

[Paul Harm]

I have a DVD by Chris Batha about shooting the double gun. In it he talks about shooting stance. Weight equal on both feet keeps the head up, weight on the front foot makes you want to push your head forward and somewhat down. He shoots a more modern stocked gun so he's a weight forward shooter. If you're going to shoot the old SxS's with lots of drop you just about have to shoot " heads up ". Where does the gun hit my face ? It just naturally comes up between the cheek bone and jaw. I don't worry about lifting my head to see if I hit the bird, it's already up. Try mounting your gun with more weight on the front foot and then with equal weight on both feet and you'll see what I mean. One other item, you don't walk around with your head down at a 45 degree angle looking out of the top of your eyes, so why would you shoot a gun this way? I've notice a lot of the top SC's shooters are using a high rib and monte carlo stock so they can shoot heads up - us with the old guns don't need all that, we already have one stocked properly. JMHO