Recoil Pads & Stock Fitting

Length of pull, done to a number

Bring the gun and we'll measure you to it — or bring the number if a fitter already has. The stock is cut square, a Kick-Eez, Pachmayr, or factory pad is ground to the profile so the edges disappear, and spacers are added where the length needs to grow instead of shrink. On a shotgun that's a quarter-inch too long, a pad swap and a trim gets a 14¾ down to 14⅜ and keeps the pitch right. The old pad goes back in the box if you want it.

Grind-to-fit pads run $30–75 depending on the stock and the pad; a stock shortened and re-padded is around $100 with the trim. Pads and spacers bought here are fitted for the labor alone.

Bedding, repairs, and the rest of the stock

Pillar and glass bedding on a bolt-action rifle — the job that turns a two-inch gun into a one-inch gun by giving the action one place to sit — is $160 on this bench. Sling swivels installed, forends fitted to a second set of barrels, checkering cleaned up and recut, a stock inlet relieved for a bolt handle, an adjustable comb fitted, a cracked wrist repaired. If it's wood we can refinish it to match; if it's synthetic we can profile it around a new muzzle device. Full stock refinishing and restoration lives on the Restoration side of the shop and we'll route you there when that's what it needs.

How a stock job runs here