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Thanks for your responses. This is a gun I am interested in and as you can see it has a fairly large buttpad already. It has a 14 1/2 LOP as is and I may need to add another 1/2" to that. What would be the best way to handle that or, how would you do it?

Thanks
Jim

Pachmayr, now owned by Lyman makes beautiful leather slip on pads with a velcro tab.....in several colors....they look professional and they work for the tall guys as I'm 6'-4.5"....they come in three sizes, I believe...I have one small and use it on all my guns, because recoil pads are way too ugly for my taste....I also use the same pad on 45-70 and larger recoiling guns...great for
comfort and fit-- one can just slip it on another gun and "get to gettin'"....

Best Regards,

I'd have it converted to double triggers. That would give me the extra half inch LOP and get the right triggers setup at the same time.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

sv

FairChase:

I'm 6'3" and have installed a number of black extensions on the guns I have refinished. They work fine but in my opinion I think the wood ones look much better. I will be putting wood extensions on some in the future. One good source of wood extensions is your local gun smith. There are a lot of guys out there that are vertically challenged and need to have their stocks shortened. I picked up two pieces recently that were cut off stocks for guys that do a lot of trap shooting. Nice walnut of about 1/2" thick.

I would suggest patterning the gun before you put an extension on it. You may find that it shoots just fine the way it is. Once you put an extension on it, your cheek comes down on the stock in a differant position and the point of impact will change. This is very evident if the stock has some cast. At that point you may need to bend the stock.

Up to an 1" in depth I am aesthetically comfortable with a recoil pad. Over that I wouldn't bother - better off spending the money on having a really nice slip on leather pad, which doesn't look awful, can be readily removed for other shooters and can be minutely adjusted by placing cut pieces of car or foam inside.

IMHO a recoil pad or any extension over an 1" looks just wrong - unless a perfect job is done as per Doug Mann's perfect stock!!!!

Sew a pocket inside the shoulder of your shooting vest for a 1/2" pad.

Tom C makes an excellent point about shooting before doing any alterations. I once bought a very light 20 ga. 3" mag. that was easily an inch too short for me. I almost couldn't miss with that gun, but it got a good running start at my shoulder and beat me worse than any 12 ga. I put on a recoil pad and spacer and immediately began shooting underneath targets. That was no fun either so I removed the pad and accepted the recoil 'till I gave the gun to my sister.

Thanks for the advise, I like the idea of the slip on but have a question. Will a leather slip-on stain or discolor the stock?

If not, who makes a good slip-on.

Jim