If you are fairly tall (say, 5-9 or more), and your arm length is fairly long, you may not have enough "pull". Don't forget, back in the day, the average male was about 5'-6", and the pull of most rifles was made accordingly. Only solution, if you don't want to alter the originality of the stock is to get a slide-on or lace-on buttplate extension, or maybe even buy a stock and have a recoil pad installed...not so much for absorption of the recoil, but to increase the length of pull. Then you just keep the original stock.