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After a few bruising sessions at the range, I have finally come around to agree with the prior input received from this board that the drops are low on my O/U. Not by much, mind you. The DAC/DAF/DAH measurements are only 1/4" lower than my measurements on Bill Kempffer's try gun. In any event, now I must decide how to remedy the problem. I am open to your suggestions. FYI, it is a trigger plate action O/U and will not set vertically in a vice. I may have to bite the bullet and restock.

Longer LOP

You can�t take wood off the top of the comb?

To low? a lot of people use "mole skin " to build up the comb. I have shimmed one side of the action to change drop and then glass bed the action, good smiths bend the stock, and you can add an adjustaable comb. Mole skin is cheap. The other changes are a lot more but nothing is as expensive as restocking.

bill

Put a removable pad on the stock first. You might just find what you need for fifty bucks or less. Then you can decide how much money you want to put into a permanent solution. A few hundred with an adjustable comb or thousands with a restock. Is this a gun which you have a reasonable chance of finding a higher stock to put on it? Some production guns have hundreds of new or used stocks available where some guns have zero to try. If yours is a zero is it worth several thousand dollars to restock? This is how money puts are dug every day.

Bend it. It is not hard, although it is somewhat scary...

Some of your aren't reading carefully. He needs to increase drop. As eeb said, you can rasp some off the comb, or do as BrentD said and have it bent (possibly), or you can buy a $40 add on rib and adhesive it to the top of your existing rib. They come in different thicknesses, are lightweight aluminum that is blacked. You can drill a little shallow hole for your existing beads and fit the rib over them, or remove them and mount them on the add on rib. They are in different thicknesses, too....... 1/4", 3/8", etc.. A 1/4" thick add on rib is the same as having 1/4" more DAC. Very easy and effective. Completely removable with no damage to the gun whatsoever. Uses 3M two sided industrial strength tape to hold it in place, and it holds it, too.

From someone who has been down this road many times, just do something to make it fit right. You will never shoot your best until you do. If you want to try an add on rib I can give you the number of a friend who makes and sells them at his choke business here locally.

It might be worth trying one to determine if it will help before doing something as drastic as rasping or bending. JMO.

SRH

I think we all need to wait for confirmation on what he actually needs.

His title states �increase drop�. But the beginning of his post says the drops are �low�.

Sounds contradictory to me.

Sorry for the confusion. I have corrected the title of the thread. The gun drops are low, so I need 1/4� more height. The gun is a DMB and I purchased it at a favorable price, so a restock would put me a bit under water, but not to the point of drowning. Good advice to try To build up the comb and shoot it before doing anything drastic. It may be that I do not shoot it well for another, as yet unknown reason.

Sorry but what is a DMB.....and is there any reason why you cant send it to someone down there to bend the stock for you?....1/4" is not much

CJ