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really good recoil pad ?

altosaltos Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
edited December 2001 in Ask the Experts
Anyone know of a really good recoilpad for a Winchester 1300 Defender synthetic stock (and where to get it) ?thanks !
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  • JudgeColtJudgeColt Member Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The "Kick-EEZ" made with Sorbothane is the most recoil-absorbing I have ever seen. Brownell's sells them. Order them on line at www.brownells.com. I saw a demonstration at a SHOT Show years ago (or was it even before the SHOT Show began?) where a guy put his fingers between two pieces of the stuff and hit the sandwich hard with a BIG mallet. No damage to his fingers. I should add that I came by that booth a day or two later and saw the same guy with his hand in a cast. He had missed the sandwich with the mallet! Ouch!I have a pin-on pad of Sorbothane that I pin on my shirt when shooting heavy-recoiling rifles from the bench. It takes all the pain out of it. It is remarkable stuff.
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  • tidemantideman Member Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Follow the Judge on this one. Sorbothane is awesome. I've always wondered what it would do as a bumper on my Dodge Dually with rush-hour traffic. Tideman
    "Don't shoot to stop 'em, Shoot to Destroy 'em!"
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  • altosaltos Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Judge... thanks... since you purchased thesorbothan over Packmayr alternatives I am assuming it "works better". It appears that the sorbothan recoil pads are trim-to-fit, which is ok. I want functionality, not looks. And as for mallets and fingers, I will attempt to maintain an eye/hand coordination that prevents the show-guys demise. I suppose sitting in a booth for 10 hours a day gets boring, making him sloppy, providing him with a cast. Thanks !
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Pachymyer decelerator is also a fine pad with really good recoil reduction.
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  • roundballroundball Member Posts: 75 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got Pachmayr Decelerators on several trap & skeet shotguns, and a Sorbothane pad on a rifle;The Decelerators were the top of the heap of all other pads...UNTIL the Sorbothane pad came out...pay the extra $$ and get yourself a Sorbothane pad...it is simply fantastic!!
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  • bullhaulerbullhauler Member Posts: 118 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You may also want to look into the recoil pads made by sims vibration laboratories. the same people that make the limb-saver products for bows. i just put one on an 870 remington. used to not be able to stand the recoil from 3" loads but now it feels like a .410. The navcom material out-performs sorbothane in the archery industry and it sure made a difference on that remington mule i shoot.
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  • altosaltos Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A "thanks" to all who responded.Sorbothane recoil pad AND a properpistol grip stock on order. Betweenthe two, that should do it. I will go through the obligatory 50 shells toproof the concept, re-train once a yearwith another 50-100, and store (hopefully) forever with no malice required. But ifit is... I will be prepared.Thank you for your help. It is, indeed,appreciated.Regards, and have a safe holiday !
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