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Pachmayr Decelerator
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Limbsaver
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Remington Supercell
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Other- see my post
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Recoil pads are for pansies, I like a steel buttplate
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October 25th, 2011, 04:46 PM
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#31 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: SAN FRANCISCO CALIF
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I shot competitive trap for 15 years..mainly with a perazzi combo...match days were a minimum of 250 rds /day and a couple practice rounds would bring it up to 300 rds. The shotgun weighs about 8 1/2 lbs with either bbl. Early on I tried different pads and ended up with Kickeeze sorbothane pads... In my mind, it is far superior than the Pachmyer or the Limbsavers....I don't have any experience with the Remington.
I have a Kickeeze mounted on my socom 16 and it weighs 9lbs 3oz without mag and sling......this past weekend I took a one day carbine class with LMS Defense and shot about 350 rds of 308 then switched to my AR for another 200 or so rds. I was a little stiff from the positions we had to shoot from and my shoulder is absolutely fine...no bruises...no aches ...nada and I weigh 155 lbs....
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October 25th, 2011, 07:15 PM
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#32 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: eastern Iowa
Posts: 484
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LimbSaver Large grind-to-fit butt pad. On the SOCOM 16 with hand loads the rifle has little more recoil than a 22-250. Best butt pad I've seen in decades. No experience with Kickeeze, but sounds good, too.
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October 25th, 2011, 08:00 PM
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#33 | | Fire Team Leader
Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Colfax CA
Posts: 210
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I glued a keyboard wrist support pad to my Win 120 years ago. It looks goofy but it works good. The extra pad worked out good with my long arms.
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October 25th, 2011, 08:31 PM
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#34 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: BumF**K Egypt
Posts: 1,120
| http://www.kickeezproducts.com/grind...ecoil-pads.php
Wont recommend anything else. I use these paired with a Soft Touch recoil reducer in my trap gun. Night and day difference.
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October 26th, 2011, 03:40 AM
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#35 | | Lifer
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 2,589
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+1 Kick-Eez nowadays. The old red pad Winchester used on its 50's trap guns was surprisingly good.
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October 26th, 2011, 09:36 PM
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#36 | | Lifer
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NorCal
Posts: 2,128
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Thanks for the addiditonal input! 
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October 27th, 2011, 04:24 AM
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#37 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 46
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None.
Recoil pads suck.
They grab your clothes, slow you down, cause you to mismount the gun and start swearing when you should be shooting, and either miss the shot or not take the shot when hunting.
They dry out, dry rot, crack and fall apart at home. A vision of permanence, longevity and utility.
They look like cr@p even on their best days. A true fusion of form and function into beauty.
They allow gunmakers/stockmakers to save a couple inches of walnut or whatever, which, I suppose, is why you can't seem to get away from them.
Since they're mounted to shortened gun stocks you can't just hack them off with a fire ax, sledgehammer or Sawzall and be quit of them.
I've been a shotgunner pretty much all my life and I hate 'em like I can't say.
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October 27th, 2011, 11:08 AM
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#38 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: PNW
Posts: 78
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on my 3-gun 870, I fill the stock bolt hole with #9 shot and cover with a 1" Decelerator.
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October 27th, 2011, 12:22 PM
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#39 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: BumF**K Egypt
Posts: 1,120
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Originally Posted by donker2  I glued a keyboard wrist support pad to my Win 120 years ago. It looks goofy but it works good. The extra pad worked out good with my long arms. | If that's what you're into, check these out. Pretty much the same material but more durable. Only bad part is they collect dirt. http://www.trapdude.com/
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October 27th, 2011, 12:32 PM
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#40 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: BumF**K Egypt
Posts: 1,120
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Originally Posted by Pike None.
Recoil pads suck.
They grab your clothes, slow you down, cause you to mismount the gun and start swearing when you should be shooting, and either miss the shot or not take the shot when hunting.
They dry out, dry rot, crack and fall apart at home. A vision of permanence, longevity and utility.
They look like cr@p even on their best days. A true fusion of form and function into beauty.
They allow gunmakers/stockmakers to save a couple inches of walnut or whatever, which, I suppose, is why you can't seem to get away from them.
Since they're mounted to shortened gun stocks you can't just hack them off with a fire ax, sledgehammer or Sawzall and be quit of them.
I've been a shotgunner pretty much all my life and I hate 'em like I can't say. |
Sounds like you had a bad experience with some old cheap ones, and summed them all up to be the devil.
I've never experienced dry rot, cracking, or pads falling apart. If your idea of a recoil pad is cheap shoe rubber glued on the end of a stock, then that might just be the case, but they aren't.
The only 'bad' thing I've ever experienced is after YEARS and well over 20,000 rounds of shooting, the pad started to get worn on one corner. Still works just fine. If it gets oh so awful and I need to replace it, 40$ wont kill me. I've been shooting trap (competitively) all my life and I've never seen a good pad act as you describe them.
Give this a try. http://www.kickeezproducts.com/slick-eez.php
EDIT: When I was competing, I would shoot about 500-800 rounds a week. Matches every weekend. I had two practices every week on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Did this for a few years. I've slowed down a lot since then and gotten into USPSA because the people are a hell of a lot nicer and less competitive.
A Kick-eez got me through all that just fine. Still has the same pad it had on it when I installed the Soft Touch.
Last edited by TheTurtle; October 27th, 2011 at 12:44 PM.
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October 28th, 2011, 07:27 AM
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#41 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 46
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Originally Posted by TheTurtle I've been shooting trap (competitively) all my life | I guess if all one does is shoot trap, one needn't worry about gun-mounting complications, eh?
I hunt and shoot international skeet and none of my guns is adjustable for comb height. 
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