The youth stock is a good length, but the smaller recoil pad surface area means the same amount of recoil is being delivered into a smaller area increasing the felt recoil.
The ideal stock would be just the standard stock shortened, but if you remove the pad you will see where it screws in only has a limited amount of space before you would be shortening the amount of threading holding the recoil pad on, which would mean it could be stripped or pulled off easier. You would also interfere with the sling screw mount. So shortening the factory stock is not advised as you cannot shorten more than an inch and that one inch will leave the rubber not aligning with the plastic. Trimming the rubber gives you less pad to absord recoil and I think the pads are in sections so it might not take well to trimming anyways.
If they only made a 12" LOP factory stock that took the R3 recoil pad. The overmold 12" LOP looks like the perfect dimensions, but an imperfect material. I like a smooth streamlined gun that wont snag easier on things or be easier for someone else to grab onto. A giant soft rubber stock that sticks to everything including your clothing, a blanket or sheets, your bed, your walls , your carpet or floor etc or anything you brush against is just more to go wrong on a HD gun. You want it to go where you want it, not stick to things and resist you, or bring your loose clothing with it when you go to shoulder it if it touches them. Your mind should be on the potential threat not giving your sticky stock proper clearance.
Some of the other aftermarket stocks are at odd angles etc I do not like the knoxx or ones that allow the firearm to move.
The factory stocks and the hogue overmolded short LOP are the only ones that I would consider.
