If the bent barrel causes the ball to hook, at what point does it become dangerous to the shooter, returning like a boomerang, for lack of a better term?
I am a mediocre offhand shooter. Makes it tough!Where does it shoot off hand?
I have enough trouble shooting a smoothbore with no rear sight offhand without not aiming at what I want to hit. What works for one may not always work for another.
To each his own and I meant not criticism or disrespect. My main flint rifle shoots over 4” high at 50m so I just aim low for close encounters.I have enough trouble shooting a smoothbore with no rear sight offhand without not aiming at want to hit. What works for one may not always work for another.
Made for shooting around trees and cornersIf the bent barrel causes the ball to hook, at what point does it become dangerous to the shooter, returning like a boomerang, for lack of a better term?
That was how it was finally explained in another thread and I finally understood what “bending” meant.My personal belief is that when we are bending a smoothbore barrel to shoot to the sights what we are really doing is bending back to straight, as recommended by Don Getz and others and practiced by Pedersoli and other major manufacturers.
And a humorous thought, if the bullets actually hooked would we be able to shoot around corners to get that deer behind the tree
My German friends called it a Krummlauf. Too modern to post here…..Made for shooting around trees and corners
Israelis used one too, but the stock/action was hinged, not the barrel..My German friends called it a Krummlauf. Too modern to post here…..
I was mixed up on the difference between lifting my eye (which worked, seeing more of the front sight but not more barrel) and lifting my head and seeing more barrel (if that makes sense). I was thinking about that the wrong way because I was thinking it would be like raising the rear sight on a gun that has one. Obviously it’s not easy for me to explain sight picture.I misread the first few posts, I thought you'd tried the lifting your eye and didn't like it.
That is how I adjust elevation on my fusil. After a while it will become instinctive.
Both my smoothbores flintlocks have barrels with big breeches and are thin at the muzzle, so the sight line down the barrel automatically adds elevation. A lot of elevation. My 20 gauge shoots 4” high at 25 yards when I hold so I barely see the top of the front sight, which is taller than originals. It’s got an Ed Rayl barrel so will not bend easily. If I load down the gun (say 30-40 grains of FFG) it will not shoot good groups. None of this will matter for deer hunting as at 60 yards the gun shoots into the black, not high.
I’m thinking that for woods walks where many targets are close that I may do a cob job front sight height extender.
Other solutions?
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Wow, well ... that assertion is not only wrong, and defines physics, but is total BS ...Bare balls hook like mad from a bent barrel, facts, like them or not.
You know you could also change the pitch on the buttplate to move the point of impact, versus the point of aim, right? Shotgunners of skeet and trap do this all the time. Yup, have done that too ...I was mixed up on the difference between lifting my eye (which worked, seeing more of the front sight but not more barrel) and lifting my head and seeing more barrel (if that makes sense). I was thinking about that the wrong way because I was thinking it would be like raising the rear sight on a gun that has one.
Yep. I was a stickler when I built it, trying to copy every bit of the original. It’s one of those “too late” situations.You know you could also change the pitch on the buttplate to move the point of impact, versus the point of aim, right? Shotgunners of skeet and trap do this all the time. Yup, have done that too ...
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