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How 'bout a picture of the rib on your gun?

Looking about the web that Al Gore invented, I find no models of gun as you have described yours, with a true, swamped rib. Most have a concave rib, like this one:

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-fo...un_id=100785485

We do have people posting here that don't know the difference twixt a concave rib and a swamped rib.

Trust me, they are not the same.

This is a link to a gun with an actual swamped rib:

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-fo...un_id=100797320

I've shot plenty of birds, clay and feathered, with swamped, concave, flat file cut, raised, or, sans rib, and can't understand what difference a rib should make to ones shooting.

The only thing I despise are mid beads, colored beads, or bulgy choke type devices.

If you are looking/thinking about the rib, you will miss.

Best,
Ted

Why does any of that bother you (I despise) if you are not looking at, or overly conscious of, the rib/bead ? Why would you despise it if you are oblivious of it? Obviously you are not.

It makes a difference to the subconscious. If it did not the best shooters in the world would not be using raised flat ribs.

SRH

Mike, that be the Okefenokee of swamped ribs. Gil

The things I mentioned are jarring to me. I can't ignore a Cutts Compensator, a glow pipe, or a mid bead. I can ignore a rib, and, a plain bead, usually.

Any of the worlds best shooters using a Cutts these days?

Does Purdey or Boss include a glow pipe with the new doubles it sells?

Not sure, but, I may not be alone.

Best,
Ted

Won't win a Limbo match, but it's "Swamped".

That is a perfect example of a swamped rib, which is smaller/lower at the middle, than at each end, John E.

Swamped ribs are an example of beauty not necessarily matching/following functionality, IMO.

SRH

But the question remains. Who looks at the rib while engaging a target? Which shooting flying method or school teaches to use the rib with point and shoot (instinctive), sustained lead, or pull away? If there are none that do then it follows that the rib is essentially cosmetic and in the same realm as engraving.

Agreed, but the question also remains, if the rib has no consequence whatever, why do all the world's best shooters shoot a raised, flat rib .... and, many shoot a high rib?

Methinks you may not understand the part the subconscious mind plays in "shooting flying".

SRH

Ahhh...I stand corrected. Thanks Ted. It is a concave rib then. I think...IMHO...that the sight line from the end of the barrels does make a difference. Maybe in a perfect world it does not. Most of my best shots are purely instinctive...where all I do is quickly raise the gun swing and pull the trigger. Don't think my cheek even touches the stock sometimes, nor do I feel the recoil. Most times if I think too much...or have time to think too much...I miss. Maybe why I love station eight and rarely miss on it...even with the twentyeight.