Kibler Fowler finding an aiming point and having fun.

[French Colonial]

I don't want to start an argument......

But you can bend the barrel on a smoothbore and get it to shoot to point of aim, several threads on this site regarding.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Sounds a lot like archery. I too am just learning about the smooth bore game. I also was hitting about a foot low by looking tight to the barrel plane. Just like Bnewberry. I had to peek the barrel about to the wedding ring before I was putting them on target. I was really surprised how repeatable I was able to get it to work. Though I’ll predominantly use my English Fowler for birds, I plan to learn how to shoot a nice target occasionally. Do competitive shooters use their Fowlers this way to shoot the fine scores I see posted at Friendship? I wondered if they bent their barrels so as to keep their eye close and tight to the top of the barrel?

Depending on how you want to sight the fowling gun and how comfortable you are with the cheek weld, bending the barrel is an option to give a shooter the sight plane similar to rifle sights. Note that for smooth rifles the presence of a rear sight raises the eye on the stock. None the less, bending of the barrel is an option. There have been many discussions on how to bend the barrel to adjust the point of impact to fit how the user is shooting the gun.

When shooting the fowling gun for its intended purpose, I prefer to have my eye raised to give more of a view of the intended target for shooting at birds to raise the shot pattern.

 

[Taevers]

Depending on how you want to sight the fowling gun and how comfortable you are with the cheek weld, bending the barrel is an option to give a shooter the sight plane similar to rifle sights. Note that for smooth rifles the presence of a rear sight raises the eye on the stock. None the less, bending of the barrel is an option. There have been many discussions on how to bend the barrel to adjust the point of impact to fit how the user is shooting the gun.

When shooting the fowling gun for its intended purpose, I prefer to have my eye raised to give more of a view of the intended target for shooting at birds to raise the shot pattern.

Depending on how you want to sight the fowling gun and how comfortable you are with the cheek weld, bending the barrel is an option to give a shooter the sight plane similar to rifle sights. Note that for smooth rifles the presence of a rear sight raises the eye on the stock. None the less, bending of the barrel is an option. There have been many discussions on how to bend the barrel to adjust the point of impact to fit how the user is shooting the gun.

When shooting the fowling gun for its intended purpose, I prefer to have my eye raised to give more of a view of the intended target for shooting at birds to raise the shot pattern.

Thanks French a Grenadier. I’ll learn to shoot first this season with cheek weld and tag down that part of the craft first. A guy needs to put these projects on the list an cogetate on em for a full season. Shooting double shotguns, I push my off hand hard to the target so as to bring the gun to the eye close to the barrel plane. If it doesn’t work out with shot shooting, I’ll be adjusting the barrel next winter. It wouldn’t be a hard job in my small metal shop. And you know, never enough projects, right?