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If it was my gun, I'd get a slip on leather pad (either the Velcro tab or laceup) and if I needed more length I'd add a shim to get me what I needed. The good leather slip on's are not unattractive and perfectly acceptable in polite company, the foregoing does not extend to rubber recoil pad boots. I have so very rarely seen a butt graph that doesn't look like what it is, but I have seen very attractive leather slip on pads that didn't require an explanation or excuse. Besides the leather pad shoulders well. When you sell or trade the gun you have not mucked up it's value, and you can keep the pad.

What Mike said,Pachmayer makes a sporting clays type slip over leather pad with velcro buckle.You could "shim" it to length by adding leather strips between the wood butt and pad.

I have a leather slip-on pad that I used on another gun before I put a leather covered pad on it to lengthen the LOP. It may work but I didn't think I could get another 5/8" shim in there. Worth a look see.

I have a leather slip-on pad that I used on another gun before I put a leather covered pad on it to lengthen the LOP. It may work but I didn't think I could get another 5/8" shim in there. Worth a look see.

I took one of the Galco leather slip on pads with Velcro and cut and fit a 1/2 inch piece of pine to go between the stock and the inside of the pad. It works and I think I could have used a 3/4 inch piece of wood as well.

Regards. Gordon

SIXSB, let me say the obvious, those leather slip on pads, Galco,Packmayer, etc., come in various sizes, if the one you have doesn't fit, look for a larger one or borrow one from someone. I use a large size one with velcro for a cheap stock fitting aid and add shims, such a wood or dense rubber, until I get the right length, then it is off to the grind to fit guy for a permenant pad or a dedicated slip on.

Thanks for the responses, been busy Grouse hunting.