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Matt

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  1. You may be right about the R3. I haven't actually seen one in person yet, but it does sound a lot like a Limbsaver. I'm worried about getting something too squishy because it may compress too quickly and reach maximum compression before the recoil is complete. EDIT: You're right! That says "LimbSaver Pat. Pend." under the big R. Well that narrows it down... I'll look into KickEEZ and see what they've got. I've heard the name before.
  2. G-Man - that sounds fun! Maybe one day I can take such a class. Barry - I've got a shortened police stock and an old ventilated recoil pad that I can fit to it. I'll give that a shot next time I go out and see what it does. Couldn't hurt any worse, that's for sure. Thanks for the replies guys. So, what is the very best pad in your opinion? Limbsaver? Decelerator? Maybe one of those new remington ones?
  3. I got a wild hair and decided to build for myself a slug gun. I've got an 870 fitted with a 20" smoothbore barrel with rifle sights. The stock and forearm are wood. I'm very happy with the groups I'm getting. I understand that shooting my slugs 1oz @ 1765fps, expends 3026 foot pounds of energy. The shotgun weighs 7.68lbs. I regularly shoot a .30-06, which with it's 150 gr. bullet @ 2910fps expends 2820 foot pounds. The rifle weighs 9.56lbs. While I understand there should be a difference because the shotgun expends more energy and weighs less, I did not anticipate the dramatic, night and day difference in recoil between the two guns. I've never shot anything that honestly hurt, but this does. I can shoot my rifle all day long with no trouble, but this shotgun just KILLS me. It fits me well and I have proper form, so it's not that. When I got the rifle I refinished the stock and replaced it's old, stiff recoil pad with a Pachmayr Decelerator. The shotgun still has a cheap, hard, solid black 1" recoil pad that is original to the gun (ca. 1990). It does NOTHING. I'm really not looking to add any more weight to the shotgun, so it looks like I need to get myself a new pad. I understand that there's no substitute for adding weight, but since that's not an option what do you guys think is the very best recoil pad out there for this application? What's worked for you in an extraordinarily high recoil gun?
  4. Nice, I've been looking for one of those, but haven't wanted to pay $20 + shipping... $14+ seems better.
  5. I have a Springfield Mil-Spec that I paid about $625 for two years ago. Great gun. Has all the improvements I wanted on the original design and a fine looking parkerized finish. I've put close to 1000 rounds through it and the only thing I changed was the mainspring housing for a flat model for a cost of $2O. I did that because I don't like the round one and I wanted to get rid of the lawyer lock that the gun came with in the original MSH. All that crap about the only good 1911s costing a grand and up is crap. Oh, and for my birthday this year my wife got me some aluminum slim grips from Brownells with the slim bushings and screws. So those parts have been changed, too. Fine looking gun.
  6. I'm Greenaccord02 by the way.
  7. I like the Ruger security six chambered to .357 - my dad's got one and it's a fine weapon. I don't really go for snub nose or long barrels. I'd like to get a nice double action revolver (don't have a good idea of a model yet) with a 5-6" barrel chambered to .41 magnum. I really like that cartridge.
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