Not 100% sure what you are asking Bill? Personally I would set it so that when your face is pressed in as hard as possible, the rib is still just visible, so very flat. It’s dangerous to set it flat with a normal face pressure because at some point in the heat of battle you may ram your face down hard and lose the muzzle completely. Obviously some people may want the comb a bit higher than that, but it becomes personal preference. Once the height is right, mount into a mirror, including a few goes with your eyes shut during mounting. Use sideways adjustment of the comb to place your eye centrally over the rib. Basically some height is optional, but obviously side errors are not.
Forgive me Bill but i dont fully understand what you have been told. The only way to set comb height imo is to shoot a target (or various types of target if we are talking sporting) and adjust according to quality of kills, the reason for this is that dry mounting is never ever the same as when shooting for real. A straight DTL target from peg 3 is imo the best method but preferably with someone watching quality of breaks as in taking top off or bottom off, or even the side if adjusting for cast.
I disagree for Sporting at least, because the shooters head and eye must be in the right place, then they must learn to hit the target. There is of course something very odd going on if the comb ends up NOT as I suggest, such as eye dominance issues, so adjusting the comb to hit a straight target could well be adding one error to cancel another and can lead to problems on crossers.
Surely Will, that if your consistent with your mount, the amount of pressure applied is rather personnel. You are also inferring that you put your head down to the stock and not the stock to your head. Also shooting gun up or down has a bearing on this as well. Everyone mounts differently there are only parameters to go by, then find your own style that works for you. Move, mount, shoot or mount, move, shoot, or a bit of both?????? Different disciplines, different styles of mount used etc. If the gun shoots where your looking you are not far out.
Ok, semantics regarding whether the wood meets the face or the face meets the wood. But we are deluding ourselves if we think we contact the comb in the exact same manner every shot. Watch almost any shooter round a whole course and they will at some point (perhaps due to seeing the target late) make a much firmer connection to the stock than usual, which could lose the rib view if normal picture was already flat. Many times you see people missing a close target like a slow rabbit and the advice is to press the face in firmly, which really makes the gun into an accurate rifle effectively, but may well be quite a different picture to the usual one.
Well Ips, if you cut it out (the comb) you would really find out for sure!!!!
It is free after all and people can take it or leave it. BUT if one pays for advice, they tend to believe what there told!!!
I think I often fall into the 'Wincer' category, due to some of the threads that I read !
