Marrakai
(.416 member)
25/01/05 01:29 AM
Re: Recoil Pads

Mate, probably not what you want to hear, but the best way to tame recoil is to increase rifle weight. It is possible to add weight temporarily, inserting lead inside a hollowed-out buttstock or barrel-channel.

Apart from this, a thick sorbothane recoil-pad is essential. The best ones are the pommie 'Absorb-all', but not sure whether they're still imported. Second-best is probably the Pachmayer 'Old English' pad as thick as you can buy.

After this, we get to magna-porting, which really works but is a two-edged sword: the increased muzzle-blast will deafen you if discharged without ear-muffs. Mercury recoil-reducers can also be added to the hollowed-out buttstock, they add weight too and apparently work OK.

For range shooting, PAST make a sorbothane pad to stick inside your shirt, a web-search will turn up the details.

That's about it I reckon, other posters may have more to add. Anything to avoid giving-up shooting....!

Good luck!



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