Need shorter LOP on HS Precision can it be trimmed? or best buy new?

[Detritus]

For brevity I'll skip the other details of why i'm thinking about this.

Looking at possibly buying a used Savage for my wife, rifle is stocked with What appears to be This HS Precision with what i am assuming is the standard 13.5" length-Of-Pull.
Using the standard quick and dirty method of checking LOP, it looks like this is about 1/2" too long.

what I am curious about is whether it is even possible for a moderately equipped person to trim an HS that much?
Or would it turn into a nightmare that would make the $350-400 (depending on source and sales offers) for a new unit of the same design with custom L.O.P. seem a bargain?

as always in such things, thank you for your time and any advice or insight you care to share.

 

[hoghunting]

Just bought a new HS stock also and the recoil pad is epoxied on instead of screwed on, just cut the stock with a miter saw - mines electric - and epoxy another pad on - I used Acraglass gel.

 

[Detritus]

Ok, so it's a glue on pad, and not a Screw on? That makes it both simpler and more complex at the same time (but a complex that i can more readily handle).

 

[hoghunting]

I poked and jabbed and couldn't find a screw head, so I started cutting the softer pad away from the hard plastic backing and found washers where the screws belonged, no screws. The pad is epoxied so I cut it off and epoxied a different pad.

 

[Detritus]

as it turns out, this was all for nothing..

the rifle in question wound up being sold a few days prior to our being able to return to the shop and put it on layaway.

so after talking it over overnight, we decided to have the shop Order Trish a NIB 12FCV for about $50 more than the Used, HS Stocked, rifle.

the LOP on the factory FCV is still slightly long, but i have alot fewer qualms about tossing a factory stock (even a Savage "AccuStock") and in short order replacing it with a good aftermarket unit with custom L.O.P. , than I do/did about the idea of doing the same with the likes of an HS Precision.