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Guys, I got another question. This one's about stock dimensions on "all-round" shotguns... for bird hunting and non-competitive skeet.

Do one's ideal stock dimensions change between different types of guns? In other works, should my O/U be the same as my SXS? Should my SXS be the same as my auto?

What about gauge? Should my 28ga be the same as my 12ga? I know Browning stocks their 12GA guns a little bit more drop than their small bores. Why is that? Should it be lower or does the gauge not really matter?

Thanks for your input!

Adam

This should be interesting

Stock dimensions, like "gun control" means hitting your target. The rest is opinion. My (limited) experience has been that there is a considerable (but probably not perfect) similarity in dimensions that crosses gun type gauge etc..

Reply to Chicago. Yes!

This is both art and science. I find it interesting that all of my guns fit me - and I mean I hit where I look w/o focusing on the gun - yet do not have the same dimensions, in drop, cast, length of pull. These are of all types as well - over/unders, sxs, pump, auto.

The rest of the dynamics of the gun play a part in this alchemy.

People have considerable adaptability on LOP. Drop, less so. I like my guns with the same dimensions from sxs to o/u if possible, all other things being equal.

High rib, low rib, no rib. What ever it takes to get the gun to shoot wear you point it without having to adjust yourself.

I always have wondered why there are so many types of ribs if nobody is looking at them anyway?

There's a test you can do mounting the gun and shooting at a cheese cloth(?) target that will point out how you mount and where you are actually 'throwing' the lead. I think 'tw' a member here described it and a lot better then I did. It is a real eye opener for actual POI.

treblig,
I have not heard of 'the test' but I have been taught a similar thing.
My uncle Ron used to hang a white cotton bedsheet up at the side of a path on his farm.
He taught me to take a shot at a black cross marked on it every day as I walked past it on my way to the rabbit warren.
Eventually I blew a hole through it, that showed where my point of aim was in relation to the cross.
When he refused to bend my stock it also showed how adaptable the human body can be.

It all depends on the gun. Two different guns with the same stock dimentions may not handle or point the same. I recently picked up a Wm.Evans about 14&1/2" cast for left hand , that came up for me a right hander as if it had been made for me. Compared to a new AyA No2 with a 15" straight stock that should have fitted me better {6' and long in the arm} but it did not seem to fit as well.

You can not realy take the measurements from an O/U and transfer then to a SxS or vice versa ,becuase of the difference in the guns . Each has its own set of requirements , apart from basic left or right hand and aproximate length.