What is the right size?

[Cosd]

What's the correct way to measure the right size stock for yourself?

 

My shottie stock is a little short and has one of those leather sleeve extenders;

I'd like to take this off and put the correct size screw on type, so it looks smarter as well.

 

I was told by 1 person that if you bend your elbow at a right angle and place the end of the stock in the crease/inside of your elbow, your index finger should be able to pull the trigger. Is this correct?

 

Advice on universal extenders also welcome.....

[gixer1]

This is also the way i have been taught to measure for correct stock length but i have shot with a few different stock lengths and personnaly i think it depends on how well you can mount the gun weather short or long stocked, some people bring the gun up and forwards and then back so can shoot with a longer stock but some people mount the gun with a single up movement...

[pavman]

What's the correct way to measure the right size stock for yourself?

 

 

I was told by 1 person that if you bend your elbow at a right angle and place the end of the stock in the crease/inside of your elbow, your index finger should be able to pull the trigger. Is this correct? :o

 

Advice on universal extenders also welcome.....

[MC]

In short you can't,

 

The only correct way to establish your dimensions is to use a try gun. You can get somewhere near by having someone who knows what they are doing watch you dry mount but that is only a guide.

[clayman]

Mount the gun into the shoulder pocket with the but heel level with the shoulder top. Do this a about 30 degrees evelation. Put your head on the stock with the minimum of gun movement, ie the gun goes to the face, not the face to the gun.

 

To check the pull, there should be 2" +/- 1/2" between the back of the knuckle of you trigger hand thumb, and your nose. If the pull is short, lengthen it with a rubber boot or pad spacers. ( note, this needs to be right before you check eye height as the comb on most guns is tapered, and altering pull length alters eye height). An overlength pull is less of a problem than one thats too short. Trap shooters eer towards longer pulls, while gun down work prefers a pull on the shorter of these parameters.

 

Note, that stance problems aggravate correct pull, so if your stance / feet are not right, they have to be sorted out first.

 

Pull length is usually far less critical than eye height, so go on to check the comb.

 

When the pull is correct, bring the gun down by moving the whole body torso, not the gun out of the cheek with the face dropping , but but leaning forward onto the leading foot breaking the knee to do this if needed. Now, have a £1-00 placed 9" down the rib. You should still see the whole bead. If you don't, raise the comb ( 30% of all clients coming to me need a comb raising). Rubber saddle comb raisers or Neoprene types both work well.

 

Jerry Parks Young

CPSA Senior Coach

[Cosd]

Mount the gun into the shoulder pocket with the but heel level with the shoulder top. Do this a about 30 degrees evelation. Put your head on the stock with the minimum of gun movement, ie the gun goes to the face, not the face to the gun.

 

To check the pull, there should be 2" +/- 1/2" between the back of the knuckle of you trigger hand thumb, and your nose. If the pull is short, lengthen it with a rubber boot or pad spacers. ( note, this needs to be right before you check eye height as the comb on most guns is tapered, and altering pull length alters eye height). An overlength pull is less of a problem than one thats too short. Trap shooters eer towards longer pulls, while gun down work prefers a pull on the shorter of these parameters.

 

Note, that stance problems aggravate correct pull, so if your stance / feet are not right, they have to be sorted out first.

 

Pull length is usually far less critical than eye height, so go on to check the comb.

 

When the pull is correct, bring the gun down by moving the whole body torso, not the gun out of the cheek with the face dropping , but but leaning forward onto the leading foot breaking the knee to do this if needed. Now, have a £1-00 placed 9" down the rib. You should still see the whole bead. If you don't, raise the comb ( 30% of all clients coming to me need a comb raising). Rubber saddle comb raisers or Neoprene types both work well.

 

Jerry Parks Young

CPSA Senior Coach

 

 

Clayman,

You definitely sound like you know what you're talking about, but is their a diagram