I enjoy my Charlin from the late Thad Scott and do alright at skeet with ic/mod. I think it has something to do with the carved in cast-off but who knows. Ted may recall the photo I posted several yrs. ago taken using the "fat lady on the beach" perspective. Showed the "pocket" on the comb at face and the butt "recurving" to the left. Old Guff Thomas had a theory about a differential in POI barrel to barrel based on a sharply cranked grip. I think a lot of cast-off was supposed to provide a sort of built-in lead on left to right crossers particularly when used the left barrel. I have a gun with stock cranked way out to the right like that and don't shoot it as well as I shoot the Charlin. Somehow the butt "returning" to the left feels better. I probably have to crawl or incline my head slightly to cheek it but I don't have to lean over the comb (just into that little pocket) to get eye centered and it does seem natural to me. A sliding breech gun is always a conversation piece at the range and some are wary of the spear end of that sliding breech block despite the over-center toggle which, according to Ted IIRC, actually tightens under the back pressure of firing. I've never had the toggle lever lift on mine.
jack
