How to best use shooting sticks

[JKR]

We used my wife’s stethoscope to find the node in the barrels of my two Sharps rifles. She listened while I tapped with a nylon faced hammer.
The heavy barreled C Sharps was dead seven inches behind the muzzle. The lighter barreled Shiloh was seven inches in front of the forearm. The “seven inches” makes it easy for me to remember. Before a match I mark the spots with a marker or piece of tape. This is where I rest on the sticks.
Jim