Can somebody answer the "lop of average English double" question?

Thanks.

Hoppdoc, as a medico you are aware of the general increase of stature/weight that occured in the 20th Century in Western Europe and the USA. Interesting that average height of males in several Euro countries now exceeds the average height of American males. Netherlands is now over 6 feet.

Various factors seem to converge, not the least of which is the vast immigration in the last 30 years the USA has experienced from countries where average heights are very short {Latin American, etc}.

As for lops and height, Euro males were substantially shorter than they are now in the 1900-1939 era, and yet lops on commercial Mausers are long by the modern standards of most production guns, certainly American production guns}. And that despite the use in cold climes where added clothing seems to beg for shorter stocks yet. I think convention rather than physiology must be at least as important. Personally, I am 5' 10" and yet I like a 14" or 14 1/4" lop on a rifle.

This Lang stock borders on the bizarre.

This thing must have had a number of owners along the way and at least one after the owner that restocked it. Otherwise why would a fellow restock his own gun with a stock that is too short and then add a really ugly plus-length kick pad? With those gaping big screw holes in the pad, I wonder what the screw heads are, if they are Allen or some that allows that nasty pad to be removed and the stock thus shortened to take a thinner pad, i.e. to allow the gun to be shot by both a troglodyte and a professional tree trimmer...