It's not twaddle Sian, but in reality, shooters know where their gun shoots (if aimed like a rifle) and compensate accordingly, usually without realising. If you look at the amount of rib angle Ed Solomons uses, he ought to miss everything miles over the top. But he doesn't..Doesn't it mean the distribution of the pattern is low. My gun is apparently 60 above and 40 below or thereabouts so if the gun is shooting flat most of the pattern is below.
Waiver - I could be talking a lot of twaddle and no doubt someone will correct me.
Thanks, both people who mentioned this shot half a dozen clays with it. It just occurred to me afterwards that it was something they both mentioned in passing. The gun has an adjustable comb which I haven't changed from its lowest position as yet. I don't see a lot of rib with the gun mounted, but I suspect I am quite a long way off having a sufficiently consistent mount to be able to make any meaningful adjustment as yet.Have they just shouldered the gun or actually shot it. The term really just means that the gun shoots where you look and not higher, but it's all a fuzzy terminology as experienced shooters will shoot 'flat' with various shapes of gun, due to their perception of where the barrels are pointing. Usually, a gun is referred to as flat if the rib is not presented as rising in front of the eye. This is affected by the shooters hold and shape of course! As I say, it's not a precise term. Basically, the comb of your gun may be a bit lower than most?
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