Originally Posted by
wild bill g
I actually tend to hold all stocks with a light grip. The more we grip the stock the more hand shake we add. I also do not hold the fore arm of the stock when I shoot. The gun just sits on the bags and I squeeze the trigger. A palm swell like my old Tikka's have actually seems to help. It is like the Remington stocks come straight back into my fingers. Winchester stocks don't and for the most part they look a lot like the Remington stocks.
I agree with you on NOT squeezing the stock tight like
but after so many yrs of selling guns, and seeing kids and women and smaller framed men, I have seen how its not just how they hold the stock, its the stock itself , the grip just being far from the trigger, ,. so they end up NOT holding the stock right at all, to get a good finger contact with the trigger, which then seems to cause the recoil to hit them as there sort of free floating there hand as to actually holding the stock
as again, MOST Youth gins just have shorter butt stocks, and that does NOTHING for there hands and fingers reaching the trigger better
there are a couple guns out there now that actually corrected this issue, by making there guns FIT properly smaller handed and arms shooters
which is again why I suggest measuring the grip to stock mounting hole, as if you measure this distance, you can look at stocks that have closer measurements than a the current stock and find one that might fit a LOT better! and work better for the OP
over trading the gun in on a different rifle maybe, as JUST buying a different stock WON"T assure them its any better without knowing the measurement before hand!