Head position.

[cahil_2]

How important is head position when shooting a trade gun?  Is it as critical as Archery shooting?  How do you maintain consistent head position without a rear sight?  I thought about putting a tack in my gun stock that my lip touches to help with head position.

[750k2]

Very, yes, that would help.
Your eye is you rear sight.
From skeet days - wood on wood

[ottawa]

to keep shot after shot you have to be consistent on everything exspecaly head placement or you don't you wont have the same site picture or alignment

[Daryl]

If the barrel does not put the ball on top of the blade while looking straight down the top flat, changing the sight or bending the barrel is necessary - for us. That is how we sight our 'trade' guns or folwers for ball shooting.

Your face must have an anchor to be in a repeatable position for good shooting (as good as it gets with a smoothie), ie: your cheek or jaw bone hard onto the comb for a proper postion, otherwise you have both an elevation and windage problem.  Most times you can modify the front sight position, soldering it slightly to one side or the other to correct minor windage problems, or adjust it's height for elevation problems.  

If your face has to be off the comb, or have you looking higher over the barrel as inshooting shot and the front sight cannot correct this, the barrel needs to be bent upwards slightly- without kinking it, of course.

Not for the "weak of constitution'' casual shooter.

[Roger Fisher]

If the barrel does not put the ball on top of the blade while looking straight down the top flat, changing the sight or bending the barrel is necessary - for us. That is how we sight our 'trade' guns or folwers for ball shooting.

Your face must have an anchor to be in a repeatable position for good shooting (as good as it gets with a smoothie), ie: your cheek or jaw bone hard onto the comb for a proper postion, otherwise you have both an elevation and windage problem.  Most times you can modify the front sight position, soldering it slightly to one side or the other to correct minor windage problems, or adjust it's height for elevation problems.  

If your face has to be off the comb, or have you looking higher over the barrel as inshooting shot and the front sight cannot correct this, the barrel needs to be bent upwards slightly- without kinking it, of course.

Not for the "weak of constitution'' casual shooter.

[Roger Fisher]

I have to look up the turtle's butt, that takes care of the elevation fairly well.. 

[Vomitus]

  Roger, you could make a mini breachclout for your turtle and it would double as a wind drift device. Then you wouldn't be lookin up your turtles toilet till twilight!