Author Topic: Shooting Styles  (Read 11009 times)

Daryl

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Re: Shooting Styles
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2010, 02:33:10 AM »
Taylor might have that info in his stuff, somewhere.  He's refurbished a few Bess' for folks.  Seem to me they were all around .80 cal.  Along with a quite short length of pull and the the lack of drop in the rather sharp comb, the Bess stocks I've shouldered, showed a rather squarish comb edge - all contributing to bruised cheeks if not shot with a 'high' face. This, of course, lends itself to very high shots.

The other DWS

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Re: Shooting Styles
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2010, 04:26:12 AM »
there are historical references to bruised and battered cheekbones among brit infantry in the napoleonic war era where they were finally trying to get the soldiers to make an attempt to aim individually rather than just en bloc-firing