LeFusil,
To state the obvious for you maybe I should have said something like "That is a beautiful stock with a checkered butt. It's never going to look any better than it does now & it would be almost worth having your arms made shorter to avoid having to cut that checkered butt off to square it up for the installation of a pad or butt plate extension."
Sorry that is kind of long winded but is there anything you don't understand about my statement now?
In reality you will likely loose about 3/16" getting the butt squared up but that is hardly the point & a gun that doesn't fit is useless to most people.
