The Browning BT-100 single barrel trap gun

Each to his own Sillymike but I can think of numerous other gun options that would be more suited for grouse hunting. Most of them wouldn't need the barrel shortened or the stock altered with a hunting style recoil pad instead of a pre mount type trap pad and most of the other options would be lighter and have a second barrel. Just my thoughts.... carry on. :)
 
I know... But life it too short to try to be rational
Heck I was today-years-old when I found out there are "hunting style recoil pad"... Than again, that doesn't mean much coming from a guy that think that checkering is a perfectly acceptable way to finish a buttstock :p

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I'm not a trap-guy, but there seems to be quite a few variations of vent-rib-heights,

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Falconflyer;[URL="tel:18796882" said:
18796882[/URL]]Those high ribs are all the rage in Trap and Sporting clays these days. I'm a bit old fashioned I guess and although I don't mind a high rib on a trap gun I don't see a place for them on a Sporting gun, but some shooters like them.
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The premise behind high rib high stocked guns is primarily for a heads up shooting style. Personally though I enjoy shooting my old school guns I shoot higher scores with more consistentency with the higher ribbed guns. There is almost nothing to block your view of the traphouse. You have a good clear view to see targets emerging instantly and the ergonomics of high stock high rib guns help to reduce felt recoil as well or so they claim...
 
the spank said:
The premise behind high rib high stocked guns is primarily for a heads up shooting style. Personally though I enjoy shooting my old school guns I shoot higher scores with more consistentency with the higher ribbed guns. There is almost nothing to block your view of the traphouse. You have a good clear view to see targets emerging instantly and the ergonomics of high stock high rib guns help to reduce felt recoil as well or so they claim...
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With trap, the targets are always rising away from you (unless you shoot real slow) so seeing the targets over the rib shouldn't be much of an issue. In Sporting clays, the targets can be anywhere so seeing is paramount but either way a rib is a rib and you can either see past it or not and in my mind the height of it is of little consequense to the view ahead. Another thing is that if you shoot from a gun down position then you have a much better chance of seeing the target and moving to it, pre mounting the gun in sporting clays will have an advantage on certain targets and be a hinderance on other targets. One thing I do know and I know you do too is that if you cant the gun just a touch as many shooters will do on crossing targets seen in spoorting clays, a high rib will put your shot in a different place than your looking and the higher the rib the further off target you will be!
As for high rib/stocked guns reducing felt recoil well, maybe... but a lot of people still think that porting reduces recoil on a shotgun too.
 
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