I bought a CZ 452 Trainer a couple of years back and have never really done anything with it. My wife bought me a Boyd's Tacticool for it at Xmas so I decided I would overhaul the rifle this year. I have worked all but 4 weekends since we went back to work after Xmas leave. Now that the weather is getting better, and I have two free weekends in a row, I decided to do some stock work on this rifle.

Honestly, the stock was adequate as is. They seem to be scaled at about 7/8 to the full size (which I used on a smokeless muzzleloader last year) but I had a system I pulled off another stock and wanted to use on this one. I bought a McMillan on sale from them that was inletted for another rifle I was building but had an ADJ LOP kit on it. I don't need the ADJ LOP on that rifle and the butt pad was a Pachmayr Presentation pad which was inadequate for the recoil that rifle produces. That meant that I could just install the ADJ LOP on this rimfire so that my nieces and nephews could shoot it short and I could shoot it long.

Top is a Boyd's Tacticool (grip reworked to mimic McM A-Series, forearm slimmed down) on my muzzleloader and below is the McMillan A3 after I pulled the ADJ LOP kit from it. A 1" Decelerator will bring it back to correct length:

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This is what came on the gun. It is not like the stocks I shoot most (McMillan A3, McM Game Scout, Manners T6A, or Boyds Tacticool) so it had to go:
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CZ 452 Trainer in Tacticool prior to cutting (pad pulled off):

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Boyds' Pad next to McMillan pad and LOP kit (the shape of the toe is different and the Pachmayr pad on the McM LOP kit is larger over all):

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The LOP kit has 1.5" of adjustment and a total length of 1 7/8":
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I taped the stock to prevent chipping (laminates are extremely "chippy" if you have never worked with them) and cut 1 7/8 at a 2° pitch:
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One thing I have found with Boyd's is nothing is ever straight or flat. Here you can see the old screw holes for the recoil pad in relation to the centerline. If you look at the toe line it is beveled from right to left:

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I taped a level to the comb to get a fix on height and used a brad nail to pin it in place so I could mark new holes for mounting hardware:
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Pad is now level with comb and the heel has a gap that must be filled:
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