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jake.keeling

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As has been mentioned on here by me and others, Italian trap stock combs seem very.... well Fat. I find this on Beretta's, particularly DT10, but also I've got an Essevierre stock that's chunky. I'm not complaining and I think it's better than tucking down onto a pencil but I just wonder about implications on gun mount. Are Perazzi like this? I keep forgetting to look.
I recently thinned down a particularly fat adjustable comb for my DT gun because I felt it was a bit like lining up over a drain pipe, even though I had shot well with it, cast became tricky after I did this. Any thoughts and gun fit advice would be interesting.

 
My Perazzi stock was very fat. After 4 years of leaning my head over to line up with the rib, I had it shaved; a mild dish cut into it. Much nicer and I'm more level now. Could have gone a bit further with it actually.

 
My Perazzi stock was very fat. After 4 years of leaning my head over to line up with the rib, I had it shaved; a mild dish cut into it. Much nicer and I'm more level now. Could have gone a bit further with it actually.
Yes! it's that fine line judgment of whether you are adjusting to the gun or the gun is fitting your face :)
 
My Perazzi is a pencil......but will be fatter soon....to stop me rolling over the top.

What you need depends on the shape of your face and space under cheek bones.

The Essiviere stock are made how you want.....mine were always made fat to stop me rolling my head over.....I like to get well bedded in. Fatter the better.

It you have a fat or chubby face then it might have a different effect.

Note this is just my opinion of what works for me.....before someone comes on to say I have got it all wrong. L. O. L.

 
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I've touched on this before, thinnish stocks aren't conducive to consistency in my view, they may be OK for the pre-mounted disciplines but ESP needs a gun that can come to the face in exactly the same spot without conscious thought. A well thought out thick comb is such that there's nowhere bad for your face to go, a thin one in contrast can easily alter the rib/eye relationship depending on how you roll your cheek into it on a given type of bird and tempo.

 
This is what I have found with my SP1, in comparison to a DT10.  yes I have lost some weight but perhaps the fact that I was previously pre-mounting most of the time, while shooting Skeet; i am noticing the difference now I am shooting more sporting.  Because the comb is thin, I think that during teh mount, I am looking for that firm contact and canting the gun slightly, as well as it coming in further due to weight loss.

 
Eat more pies, gun will fit again .... job done :)

 
This is what I have found with my SP1, in comparison to a DT10.  yes I have lost some weight but perhaps the fact that I was previously pre-mounting most of the time, while shooting Skeet; i am noticing the difference now I am shooting more sporting.  Because the comb is thin, I think that during teh mount, I am looking for that firm contact and canting the gun slightly, as well as it coming in further due to weight loss.
As stated get a balaclava or fit an adjustable comb, or maybe try http://www.recoilsystems.com/combraiser/combraiser.asp

 
All the moleskin in the World, advice from well meaning friends, trial & error will never beat a session with a good gunfitter or someone who actually knows what they are doing. Unless you seek advice from someone competent you will forever wonder if you have got it right.

 
All the moleskin in the World, advice from well meaning friends, trial & error will never beat a session with a good gunfitter or someone who actually knows what they are doing. Unless you seek advice from someone competent you will forever wonder if you have got it right.

Of all the Combs, in all the world; you had to Moleskin onto mine.

Is Moleskin OK for vegetarian shooters?   :)

I think Jake and I need these ones.  Pretty fat, nice figure too ...

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Er, when the first Perazzi stocks arrived we hadn't a clue they were made oversize. So we could reduce them to fit. And everybody tried to use them as they were. :huh:  Doh!

 
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