Proper gun mount?

The first recommendation for a correct gun mount technique is to bring the gun to the cheek with both hands adding a lite screwing up move of the pistol grip hand to finish the mounting up to the cheek. The second recommendation is to place the gun in the shoulder's pocket at once without any adjusting movement and getting a perfect lineup of the eye with the gun's beads.

To realize a "perfect gun mount" we need to use a gun that fit us . What that means, by following the above recommendations, the aiming eye needs to line up with the gun's beads in a such a way that no adjustments are required.

The visual line from our eye is continued by the line of the gun's barrel that makes the connection to the target in what we call "sight picture". To understand better, do the following experiment. Focus on a door knob, now move your focus to the right or left on a close object ( like a light switch). You will notice that while  you are focusing on the knob you will see the light switch in your peripheral vision as well. Now, when you move the visual focus on the light switch the knob will be in your peripheral vision. Translated to shooting when focusing on the target the gun's barrel will be in your peripheral vision and together will form the "sight picture". The visual gap between the target and the gun represents the "lead".

Disregarding the first recommendation leads to a bad mount and a bad connection with the target.

For example, bringing the CHEEK to the gun in order to lineup the eye with the gun and not bringing the GUN up to the cheek! In this instance we create a muscle tension by arching the neck over the stock. This muscle tension will push up the head from the comb in order to relax the muscles. Having the head up the sight picture is compromised and the result is a lost target.

What makes the shooter commit the above mistake:

a) Unfinished gun mount. The gun is not traveling up enough in the shoulder to be lined up correctly with the eye. The shooter will try to lineup the gun by lowering the head over the comb which is wrong!

b) Grabbing the gun's pistol on the upper spot close to the receiver. In this case the hand and arm angles won't allow the gun to be mounted up to the cheek forcing the shooter to push down the cheek for the line up.

Remember,  a correct mount is the main key for a successful shot!