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[badshah0522]

Nice Info... Thanx, Wanna ask one thing is it advisable to rest the cheek first on the stock before resting the stock on the shoulder????????Does it makes any difference(preferbly in skeet shooting).
Thanks

[Grumpy]

As the gun is pre-mounted for Skeet it doesn`t actually make any difference except that if you put your cheek to the stock first you will have to reposition it as the gun comes back to the shoulder.

[Vikram]

Grumpy, a superbly informative post.Thank you very much.

Best-
Vikram

[Mack The Knife]

Grumpy,

Regarding gun fit, I was seeing a video on Sporting Clays and the presenter mentioned that correct gun fit was not determined by the length between the crook of the arm to the first pad of the trigger finger but by the distance between the ball of the right hand (for a right handed shooter) whilst gripping the gun and the front of the cheek - namely, 1" to 1 1/2".

They did not mention anything about stock cast though.

As for the sighting plane, they were suggesting an almost flat sighting plane as you were.

Just thought this would be of interest to the others as well.

Mack The Knife

[mundaire]

As the gun is pre-mounted for Skeet

Dunno if things have changed, but when I shot ISU / UIT / ISSF (the buggers keep changing their name every few years, hard to keep up ) regulation skeet in the Nationals/ State tourneys here (early-mid90's)... we could only mount the gun after sighting the bird... the trap chappies however got to pre-mount before calling for the birds... Is there a change in the ISSF regulations? Or is there a difference in how skeet is shot in Britain?

Mounting the gun only after sighting the birds was one of the things I personally liked about skeet... makes it a lot more like wing shooting...

Cheers!
Abhijeet

[Vikram]

I was wondering about that,Abhijeet. All the Olympic style Skeet tourneys I saw, did not allow pre-mounting.You have to spot the bird before you do that.Need to read a bit on skeet in Britain and wait for Grumpy's response.

Best-
Vikram

[Grumpy]

I`ve got to admt that I couldn`t say what the current regulations are - when I shot Skeet as a junior many years ago the gun wasn`t mounted until after the bird appeared. Years later, shooting American Skeet, the gun was pre-mounted. Nowadays, on the rare occasions that I shoot a round of Skeet with a friend, we have the course to ourselves and the `rules` are what we decide......usually a variation on Skeet Doubles with pairs being launched from each station - including Station 8.
I can`t keep track of the name changes to the governing body either and still think in terms of `ISU` Trap/Skeet although I`m pretty sure that the ISSF is the body responsible for all International - Olympic type - shooting events nowadays.
I`ve just checked and ISSF Skeet is shot gun down.
Full rules for ISSF Shotgun Clay Shooting disciplines can be viewed at:
http://www.issf-shooting.org/rules/engl ... 5_2nd.html