Taking Stock: Confessions of a Custom-Fit Convert

I had always been a little dismissive of the idea of a custom stock. I say this at the risk of confirming my ignorance, but hear me out: I already had an adjustable stock on my Krieghoff K-80, and I preferred it without any adjustments. Therefore, that contraption was of limited value to me. My LOP (Length of Pull) is 14.5” – which is fairly common. Cast was something to adjust to rather than worry about. Heck, if I had one custom stock made and shot it really well, that would be a slippery slope; I would need to have custom stocks made for all my guns. This is already an expensive hobby, so I thought it better to learn to shoot the gun as it was rather than custom-fitting the stock to me, and perhaps at one point in my shooting development that was not terrible thinking. I was not yet disciplined enough in my mount for a custom fit to make sense.

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