each stock comes with your choice of pink or purple lace-trimmed panties! And, they really look BAD on a nice walnut stock.

Rich
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My No. 1 Tropical in .458 Lott should be here soon. I have a pre-fit Limbsaver waiting to be installed, and plan to add a mercury reducer, too. I'll admit to a big wuss factor, especially with a No. 1. Reducers by C&S Research, Breako and MRS have been mentioned in this thread. Do any or all of these fit in the stock through-bolt hole in a Ruger No. 1 without additional drilling or fitting? Thanks for any advice.

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Originally posted by buffybr:

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Mercury recoil reducers reduce recoil by much more than mere added weight. When the rifle is fired, the mercury, which is most of the weight of the tube, remains stationary while the gun begins to accelerate rearward under recoil. Eventuallly (0.2 seconds?), the front wall of the tube slams against the stationary recoil, and the mercury acts as an inertia dampener, slowing the rifle's rearward motion.

Physics 101.

What 500grains said +1

The same is true of the mechanical reducers, only instead of mercury in the front of the tube there is a cylinder of heavy metal in front of a spring inside the tube. Principal is the same as the mercury ones.

I've had mercury reducers in my competition skeet and trap guns for years. I also put a mechanical reducer in my .375 Ultra mag. I can't tell the difference between the mercury and the mechanical, and they both reduce felt recoil. Mine don't make any kind of sloshing or springing noise.

I suppose I won't take offense, as 500 grains previous post wasn't directed at me. But with minor indignation, I can assure you I went far beyond "Physics 101" to get my degree in physics, and the situation is NOT simply a case of the front wall slamming into the mercury.

While that's an accurate assessment, obviously, the total momentum transferred to the firer's shoulder is exactly the same; all the Hg can do is change the shape of the acceleration curve. So one quickly heads into the realm of physiology and psychology, to determine which is better: lower initial rearward acceleration due to a fixed Pb weight, or the "slamming" effect of the mobile Hg, with an initial HIGHER rearward acceleration? The answer is not obvious. Heck, there might not even be one answer-- perhaps sometimes fixed weights do more to reduce perceived recoil than Hg, and maybe sometimes the mobile mass is better.

Again, the answer is not obvious.

Pertinax