Has anyone seen or tried one of these?

http://www.limbsaver.com/produ...-airtech-recoil-pad/

Regardless of how well it works or does not. It's not a thing of beauty and would not find its way on to a rifle I owned.

Sorry, not for me. Recoil pads are only keep the rifle from slipping, pinching, and/or bruising. If I can't tolerate the recoil then, instead of making my rifle into a pogo stick with springs in the pad, I'll either shoot a heavier rifle, pick a cartridge with tolerable recoil, or take up knitting.

I like it. I will try one and let you know.

I don't think it would be out of place at all on a lightweight synthetic rifle.
I would like it on the right rifle.

it cries out for a nice thin leather cover...

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Originally posted by Grenadier:
Sorry, not for me. Recoil pads are only keep the rifle from slipping, pinching, and/or bruising. If I can't tolerate the recoil then, instead of making my rifle into a pogo stick with springs in the pad, I'll either shoot a heavier rifle, pick a cartridge with tolerable recoil, or take up knitting.

seems to me this would fall under your category of bruising

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
it cries out for a nice thin leather cover...

That's exactly what I was thinking. It actually went like this: "This thing must work. Gosh, but it's too ugly to be put on a wooden stock... Wait a minute, that's all the excuse I need to finally have a rifle with a leather pad!"

Grenadier, as for the manliness of handling recoil by using the thick hair on my chest, I'm sorry, but if I can get away with a rifle lighter by one pound and tolerate the recoil sufficiently to shoot it for proper training sessions, I'm a happy camper. I carry a rifle an awful lot of time, and I shoot it once in a while. Yet, when I shoot it I have to do so properly, so this thing, sissy ugly as it be, makes perfect sense.

By the way, I have yet to see someone arriving in camp with a DG rifle having a steel buttplate, no matter how stiff they drank their whisky...

Use a synthenic shell holder that fits over the buttstock to hide it.

That's what I did own my Whitworth 458 Win Mag. I needed to increase the LOP, but didn't want to do a new stock, so I put on a 1" spacer and new recoil pad and then used a synthetic shell holder to over the spacer. No reason you couldn't take it out further.

I think this would look fine a synthetic rifle as is.

I just installed one on my Ruger #1 375 Ruger. I know; I know - makes me less of a man than all you hairey-chested DG hunters, but my Orthropod surgeon said after I had my bicep tendon screwed back in place and my shoulder rebuilt, I might want to take it easy. So, Got a Limbsaver and a shooting shirt with a pad.

Now I can take the rifle to Africa instead of leaving it in the safe.

I'll let you know if it works.

My first impression was that the design will cause an accumulation of dust, dirt, mud, etc. to settle in the slots. Second thought was that Limbsaver could fix this by simply covering the pad in a manner to make it appear as a "normal" recoil pad.

BTW, I have been a fan of Limbsaver for many years and they are my #1 choice for replacement pads.

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Second thought was that Limbsaver could fix this by simply covering the pad in a manner to make it appear as a "normal" recoil pad.

Gorilla 200 MPH tape?--till the factory comes out with a more elegant solution.

Hey Sean -

I was thinking simple electrical tape, but perhaps Gorilla Tape would be a more appropriate application!