Silly question about gun fit.

[Wb123]

Hello

 

If i focus on the bird and have no idea what my shotgun is doing but shoot gun down and mount once the eyes are locked onto the bird i hit things most of the time, so i assume my shotgun fits well enough. When i mount my shotgun the comb rests gently snuggled up to the lower aspect of my zygomatic arch (bony lump between eye and ear) and my dominant eye looks straight down the rib.

 

I have a cz452 american which came with a bsa sweet 22 on high or medium mounts, it never felt right and i always had to lift my head slightly to get a good view down the scope, something i have felt with every scoped rifle i have shot. An S&B 6x42 became available at a price that felt like theft so now i have mounted it on hawke low mounts. I still have to lift my head slightly from where i would expect my shotgun to rest (though there is a substantial improvement). Both wih the old optics and new i end up trying to keep my mastoid process (bony lump just behind ear) consistently against the stock whilst i slightly lift my head to gain a good view. 

 

If i was to file a groove in my scope lens covers i could probably go 4-5mm lower if i could find even lower mounts, should i be persuing this, raising the comb, or do rifles fit differently to shotguns?

 

i understand the american is supposedly intended for a scope, but my eye seems to end up in just the right position for iron sights, could i have ended up with a lux stock by accident?

 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Rifles do fit differently to shotguns, you will very rarely fire a shotgun from the prone position!

Before you get the files out, cut a cereal box up and build up the come a little just on the top and see if that gives you a better eye alignment with the scope on its current mounts.

[ips]

you cannot compare rifle and shotgun fit.

[Wb123]

After a rummage through the cupboards i found a 15mm rubber shotgun comb raiser, i thought that would be far too much but the rifle now seems to point wherever i look such that the target is more or less in the middle of the scope. I would have thought this should make target acquisition very much easier and avoid me having to lift my cheek.

I am away working the next four or five days but will reort back once i have a chance to shoot it.

 

I cant help but feel low mounts and that much comb raising must either mean i have a wildly oddly shaped face (i like to think this is not true) or i am trying to acheive the wrong thing.

 

 

Edit: i asked the girlfriend what she thought, she picked the rifle up, declared she could now see down the scope without contortionism, and that she thought it might now be enjoyable to shoot (she hated the thing before). Given in terms of shotgun fit we are both quite similar we might just be barking up the same incorrect tree.

Edited November 9, 2017 by Wb123

[slaphead]

I bought one of these for my rifle to assist eye alignment with scope.

[wymberley]

13 hours ago, Wb123 said:

After a rummage through the cupboards i found a 15mm rubber shotgun comb raiser, i thought that would be far too much but the rifle now seems to point wherever i look such that the target is more or less in the middle of the scope. I would have thought this should make target acquisition very much easier and avoid me having to lift my cheek.

I am away working the next four or five days but will reort back once i have a chance to shoot it.

 

I cant help but feel low mounts and that much comb raising must either mean i have a wildly oddly shaped face (i like to think this is not true) or i am trying to acheive the wrong thing.

 

 

Edit: i asked the girlfriend what she thought, she picked the rifle up, declared she could now see down the scope without contortionism, and that she thought it might now be enjoyable to shoot (she hated the thing before). Given in terms of shotgun fit we are both quite similar we might just be barking up the same incorrect tree.

If you have, then that makes two of us. Tape the raiser on as a temporary measure, shoot the rifle and if all is well, stick it on. I have had the same set up (about the same height as well) on my Hornet for years.