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Much like a late season, high and windswept dove.

Shoot a 410 sxs. The small barrels are the rib.

I like a rib that allows me to better 'look through the gun' or to allow the gun to be ghost like so I can better see rising targets such as trap targets and teal targets. Maybe that's why you like a slightly raised rib better? Some of those super high ribs on trap guns, you know, the grotequely high ones, I don't care much for them. I used to have a high rib Perazzi TMX....I never could shoot it as well as the lower rib TM-1 guns. The sight picture on the very high rib guns is bizarre to me. The English believe 'closer between the hands' is best. I bet they are right??

I have a mid-rib on my Ljutic trap gun. I first had a Ljutic with the smaller rib, but the gun didn't fit me. So I sold it and got the mid-rib. I like it so much better. Gorgeous wood and a palm swell. I don't see how those guys shoot with those big tall ribs that are about 3 in high. I've never tried one so maybe they are okay.😊 I just bought a BT-99 last year. The rib on it is okay for me.

I believe that which rib one prefers is in most part subjective. Those who claim the value of a high rib are right for themselves and those like them, as our those who proclaim the game rib, swamped rib, Churchill rib etc.

Gunmakers have long tried to meet market demand and sell guns to deliver that certain something. Sometimes they got it right, sometimes right for some but not all, sometimes the gimmicks were just that.

As each of us experiment with what works for them and find it, if it works for them then I am good with it.

The same is true for so many aspects of shooting.

BTW I like game ribs and shoot two swamped rib guns quite well.

My worry is something will distract my focus on the target, bird, whatever. My gun fits. It puts the shot where my eyes are to focus on a target at a reasonable distance for the shell and choke I’m using. My losses are usually from moving too slow or dropping concentration. I can’t see where ribs can be anything more than a personal selection. For me the aesthetics of a rib is more important than its function. The eye of the beholder/buyer.

The closer my eye is to the axis of the bore the better. High ribs don’t work for me.

Do you like a gun to shoot flat for you, as in 50/50? I prefer 60/40 as I don’t like the front bead to cover the target.

Just curious.

I like to see the target right over my bead and watch it break. If there is a mid-bead I want it right behind the front bead, no figure eight stacking, but I see a little rib; I’m not looking perfectly flat down the rib. In terms of 50/50 or 60/40, it’s closer to 60/40. I don’t generally use a pattern board unless I feel the POI is off.

I hear you. I’m a deliberate pattern shooter on any new gun I acquire. I built my own 4 X 4 steel plate just for this. I want to see two things when I pattern a gun of mine ….. first, that the two barrels print atop each other. Then, that the pattern is about 60/40. I asked only out of curiosity. Thanks.