But a stock that "fits" on a day or for a season can make magic happen.
Amen. It's fun when that happens.
Shooters too often accept stock dimensions that hamper them in shooting well. I've been anal about it for the last 25 years or so, even to the point of building my own 4' X 4' steel patterning plate, in order to determine where each gun is shooting for me and whether or not it is regulated with the load in question. I have a few shotguns that have dimensions that aren't right for me, but I add length (and drop) to them to get them to shoot acceptably. When you are dealing with a gun with a sloping comb, and add length, it places your cheek farther to the rear (down the slope), which adds effective DAF (drop at face), which is what really counts. The reason they are not permanently altered is because I'm reticent to cut off a beautiful checkered butt, or nice heel and toe plates, to add a recoil pad. So, I just lace on my KickKiller leather pads.
