Aiming is instantanious - heads-up aiming. You stand erect, look at the animal, shoulder the rifle and the crosshairs are on it. You do not mount the gun and scrunch your face down hard into the comb to look through the scope - this is the modern US method - low mounted scopes, many designs with smack you in the face combs with heavy recoilers - instead of relaxed, erect and fast shooting, they promote deliberate aiming.

Most Euro shooting is fast - at driven game. I prefer the Euro stocks and high scopes - as on my 9.3x57. It snaps to my shoulder and the cross hairs are on-target right where I was looking. Factory 1929 Husky M46.

This is the Euro & Oplympic style of shooting offhand. The gun is brought to the face, not the reverse.

The rifle is for the most part, an iron sighted rifle that has a scope attached. The both work perfectly - abeint have slightly different 'stances', but with amazing stock design & doesn't take long to learn- or to switch back and forth - both are quite open postions in comparrison.

My 'take' on the aiming differeces, is that most US shooters us a rest whenever possible. Low mounted, high combed rifles are set up that way for very deliberate shooting - scrunched down hard into the stock, immovable, precision shooting form a rest- exactly what I use for shooting gophers at long range- but not best for shooting moose running through the trees.

In Europe, with more offhand and 'fast' shooting at driven game - game, a more open style is preferable - nay - manditory - fast aquisition of game and sights aligning instantly on the game upon shouldering the rifle - THAT's a hunting rifle.

The Engish Sporting Rifle epitomized this very aiming aspect - the rifles fitting and coming to the shoulder like a fine bird gun- alrady on target. This trait was developed over many years, starting in the late 1700's, culminating to peak in the mid 1800's, then holding this style of 'fit' on into the 1900's.

Most Euro rifles made today, are a combination- neither fish nor fowl.

I might be full of BS - some think so - HA! - but that's the way I see it. I like it.