Hate to tell ya this, but I've read on a number of different gun boards that many guys end up taking the pistol grip off and putting the stock back on.
Even shooting from the hip, the stock provides an additional control point (hold the stock against your hip).
YMMV
66 posted on 02/19/2012 7:42:55 PM PST by 2111USMC
(Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)