Thats a nice looking rifle.
Try and try....read all the tips and tricks....but for the life of me I cant get a crescent butt to fit comfortable. I will try again.
On my Miroku 45-70 I shot it with a Galco leather slip on butt pad for a while.
Worked pretty well. Jerry sold me some carbine style furniture that I inletted and use that now.
I still use the Galco pad because it gets the LOP out there where it is better. These 1886's are an inch too short!
What were the 450 grain jacketed bullets you used? Does your rifle have a long throat?
And it aint going to fit ya Slim Jim, they don't fit me, I'm just 6'2" 250, you must be 6'5" 350, I put a leather lace on with a scored rubber pad in my 50-110, more to get the l.o.p. and the rifle out in front a bit more so I can get my face down and behind the sights, like CRShelton said, put the crescent butt on the ball of the shoulder muscle and squeeze it off, the men they built those rifles for back in the day had to be all of 5'9" and 140 lbs, they wont fit pork chop gravy hands like us.
BTW, hope that carbine wood is serving you well.
