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Author Topic: Smoothbore roundball question...again.  (Read 1387 times)

Offline markinmi

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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2010, 08:23:28 PM »
I hold my head up shooting my Bess cause otherwise it slaps the dickens outta me,works for me.

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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2010, 08:52:07 PM »
Quote from: "Capt. Jas."
Even if the gun was not built to fit him, if he brings his eye lower (backward on the stock) either it will shoot even lower or he wont be able to see over the breech. Exception would be if he was crawling the uppermost nose on a pied de vache stock.

I am probably just worn out and cant think today.


ok think on this
 Lets say your eye is level with the rear sight  on a rifle . IE you can look strait through the sight . Everything is 0 .   You bring the front  blade up and all is good right ?

 Now lets say you are looking down at a positive angle . Basically your  line of sight is just a little high . Now whats going to happen is  your eye isn’t going to give you a true reference. When you bring the front sight up . What looks like level is actually a little low because of your line of sight .
 
 So if your  face is alittle farther back . Thus little lower .. Your line of sight  is not strait down the barrel . Thus the front blade must come  higher in order for you to get a sight picture .
 Or think of it this way .
 Your shooting an O to R barrel with ohm? A 16 in  octagon section  .  Your current line of sight lets you see the full 16 inches . So you bring the blade up  and use the top barrel flat as a reference . But your shooting say 10 inches low .
  As you move you face slightly back , you see less of the length of the flat  even though you can clearly still see the flat . because you see less of it , you have to raise the muzzle more , in order to see the front blade

Offline mark davidson

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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2010, 12:18:37 PM »
Just get your face at the same place on the stock each time and adjust the dang sight till YOUR gun hits where YOU want it to. All this holding up and over and under and off to the side is rediculous to me at only 25 yards. 25 yards is archery distance. At that distance your sights need to be on. Break out the file and make it happen and take out the guesswork. Moving your face around from comfortable to uncomfortable  and from good form to bad form is not going to solve anything. JMO