Because of this, the shooter could not shoot with the butt against his shoulder and close his armpits like with present-day rifles and thus the matchlock gun was used in the style where the shooter shot with an elbow squared like when setting an arrow on a bow (however, many matchlock guns in Europe were the shoulder type and the short type was in the minority).
そのため、現代のいわゆるライフル銃のように台尻を肩に当てて、脇を締めて発射することはできず、弓を番えるように肘を外に張って射撃するスタイルで使用されていた（但しヨーロッパの火縄銃は肩当ストック型のものの方が多く短床型の方が少数派）。