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Was curious how they work, what settings would be good for high risers like wood cock or fast flushers such as grouse?

A word of caution. I once used an O/U so equipped for a round of sporting clays and hated it. I seems that whenever I mounted the gun, I would feel the sharp edge of the stock that the the adjustable comb had left exposed due to it being adjusted for cast off.
Karl

I shoot one on my dedicated sporting clays gun, but it was on the stock already when I came to own it. Once adjusted to my liking I've never touched the adjustments, in many years. You just need to shoot one at a plate and adjust a little at a time until it prints the patterns where you want them to be.

SRH

I set my stocks so I see a figure 8 using the mid and front bead. This forces me to hold a little low. That way if the bird takes a sudden turn down it is not instantly out of sight and I have a chance to follow it down. I have made second combs for guns that require radical demensions. The original comb may not go as far as you want or become uncomfortable.

bill

The gun I have has one already on it, I got the cast just right, but was curious about adjusting it for upland birds, I think Stan is on the money, I'll have to shoot and adjust to where I want it, but gotta figure out adjusting for rise.

Take a walk along vendors row at a major Trap Shoot sometime! The competition shotgun has evolved to be barely recognizable as a shotgun!
Virtually every part is adjustable, super high combs and ribs etc.
Also they seem to be quite expensive to boot!

Adjustable stocks work well if you set them up to do just one thing. Too many shooters like to tinker with moving them back and forth. Once close to your needs it becomes a problem with the Indian not the bow or arrow. But I never take a clay target gun hunting. Target guns tend to be heavy gun which are not fun to carry. They are heavy to help absorb recoil from high volume shooting. I far more enjoy carting a lighter gun hunting and have never found recoil with them to be a problem. Plus it gives me a reason to buy another gun. Like I need another gun or reason anyways. anyways.

Jon,
There's always room for "one more gun"!
Karl

Adjustable stocks may look the business, but they look indecisive and to my eye they are never as sweet as an unbroken piece of wood. Beyond that, my take on it is that regardless of the game (trap, skeet, clays), a person will by nature tend to do best with a particular stock set-up; some people naturally shoot flat guns well, some shoot high guns well. I have used adjustable stocks to arrive at dimensions that work for me, and then transfer those dimensions to nicer wood.

There are much cheaper, neater, and more efficient ways to raise a comb than to spend hundreds of dollars to make a gun worth hundreds of dollars less by installing an adjustable comb. Several of my guns have cheek pads, butt things, you name it, all removable, all cheap. None of them make a permanent change to the gun. I admit that I have one ugly competition gun that has an adjustable butt and comb, but I also have the original stock in case I want to sell the gun in its original configuration.