Yes, and yes.
There is no question for me that the most consistent way to shoot a side-by-side that I have not had the stock altered on, is to shoot with my left arm, fully extended, and the fore end, laying in the palm of my left hand wherever it ends up.
If you think about the position of it all, it’s the only way to be consistent with rental guns or borrowed guns or shooting a variety of guns that a person may acquire with different stocks and forends.
Because the one thing that is consistent is where your palm is when you extend your arm fully straight out.
CZ, did you actually ever try this?
It sounded a bit questionable to me, so I got up from the PC and grabbed an unaltered all original Syracuse Lefever 12 gauge that happened to be handy. This gun has an original Lefever splinter forend. I mounted the gun with my left arm fully extended.
My left palm ended up under the barrels, but completely forward of the forearm wood. The very tip of the forearm was above my wrist, close to where one would check their pulse.
What you advise might have worked if both of my arms were abnormally short... something like a Tyrannosaurus rex. But then I'd probably need a buttstock with about an 11 inch L.O.P. And the sleeves on all of my shirts and jackets would be much too long.
