Sight Plane

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by tom leshinsky

Down yonder way, whats the old soda straw trick??

Dean referenced it. Tape a straw on the gun, then pick out a fixed target and then mount the gun. If when you mount the gun and look down the barrel and can see target thru straw then your good to go on reference point. If you have to adjust the gun up or down some to get sight picture then you have a straw sight and gun mount reference. You can use that straw and then pattern the gun.

I think there are even some cheap laser pointers you can put in the barrel to see where barrel point of aim is as well. Lots of little tricks.

[Dean Romig]

Tape it to the top of the rib and use it like a scope??






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[TroutSetter]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Tape it to the top of the rib and use it like a scope??

The parallax will counteract the sight plane issue!

[Mike Franzen]

Thanks for the 18” reminder. I would have hated to make that rookie mistake especially after the duct tape that was holding the drinking straw pulled all the finish off the forend.

[Bill Murphy]

My Cutts barrel is finished at 30" with the tube that is in the gun. I bought the barrel inexpensively from a gun parts dealer and it clicked right on a 30" gun in my collection. It makes a single trap much more useful for hunting compared to using the full choke barrel.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

My Cutts barrel is finished at 30" with the tube that is in the gun. I bought the barrel inexpensively from a gun parts dealer and it clicked right on a 30" gun in my collection. It makes a single trap much more useful for hunting compared to using the full choke barrel.

Come on Bill. I know you are messing with us. You would never hunt with a SBT. That's what Benelli autos with black plastic stocks are for. l wouldn't enter a New England grouse covert without one. I like how high velocity maximum loads of #4's work on the grouse and woodcock. If a deer flushes you can take a head shot with the 4's. It's a good all around load and gun. You need to get with the times Bill and change your aberrant ways.

[Bill Murphy]

I actually used the Cutts SC on a preserve pheasant shoot and was embarrassed at the success I had with one "bullet" in the gun. I have a couple of Parker order copies that show Colonel Cutts ordering Parker singles to test his compensators. In my "yout" (courtesy Yogi B.), I saw a Cutts equipped Ithaca 4E in the window at Tendler's Sales, 913 D Street N.W. Washington, D.C. but know nothing of its provenance. They are out there. We might as well use them.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I have a couple of Parker order copies that show Colonel Cutts ordering Parker singles to test his compensators.

Bill, you seem to have an endless supply of order book stuff. Do you have one (or more) of the missing books? I was under the impression that my forty bucks for a research letter went to good use, but If you'll take less on the dark web, maybe we can do some business. I could use a new watch too. Maybe a nice knockoff Rolex.

[Tom Flanigan]

OMG Bill. All these years I thought you were a purist. Must be your Maryland upbringing. Yankees such as myself would never think of installing one of those horror devices on a fine gun. But to each his own. If you hunt grouse with me someday don't bring that gun. You would no doubt be bitten by my dog if not me.

[Paul Harm]

back to the sighting plane question. Everyone says the two beads should line up into a figure 8, but many trap guns will have a space between the beads. Yes it's easier to make sure your head is on the stock the same every time if the beads stack touching but that's about all. Different shooters want the gun to shoot higher or lower. I just got my barrel back and I'm going over to the club and just shoot some straight aways. Unless I really squeeze into the stock I see what your picture was. Different face structures and distances from the cheek to shoulder mean different DAC. The only way to tell is to shoot it at moving targets.