I saw a nice shotgun that had this.
Is there a good way to attach the second one, and have them both compress without a screw poking me?

Clark
What you might have seen was a spacer used to lengthen the
stock. If not I'm not sure what it could have been. If you
are looking for a pad to really reduce recoil try a Limb
Saver, it gives the most cusion of any pad on the market.
I have installed KICK EEZ for several years, but recently
started installing the Limb Saver pad. They have a built in
air chamber and are made of very soft material. The Limb
Saver pad is available in some prefit models and also grind
able in Brownells Catalog. Roy

I use a SIMS slip-on recoil pad on my Tikka T3 which already had some sort of pad. I works very well, and I can use the slip on pad on a couple of different rifles too.

Kory

How'd you get a look at my shotgun??!!

Oh, nevermind, re-reading I see you said "nice" shotgun, which eliminates my camo plastic stocked 870 Express Super mag from consideration. But it does sport a double recoil pad: a slip on pad over the original factory pad, artfully attached with camo duct tape, as is the sorbothane cheek pad.

I love 870's but the length of pull is a bit short. So I've always simply added a slip-on pad and never worried about the aesthetics on a duck and turkey gun. And when I got the 3 1/2" model, the reduction in felt recoil was worthwhile. It's just got a rubber Pachmayer pad on it but I plan to go to a Sims/R3 before spring turkey, maybe an R3 replacement screw-on pad with the slip on over it.

Pretty? Nope. Functional? Yep. The answer to your question? Probably not! -WSJ

wsj,
calculating recoil runs in my viens, and like a true nerd getting exited over numbers, in 1999 I posted on rec.guns:

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A 458 Win Magnum 400 gr bullet at 2429 fps will have 5,240 foot pounds of energy. A Winchester 70 458 mag weighs 8.5 lb. it its kick is 35.2 foot pounds of recoil energy.
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If we compare this to a 7 1/2 pound Remington 870 shooting 2 3/4" trap loads of 1 oz at 1185 fps recoil is 11.3 foot pound recoil energy.
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The same shotgun shooting 3 1/2" magnums 2 1/4 oz at 1150 fps produces 57 foot pounds of recoil energy.

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Of course recoil has more dimensions; gun velocity and mass, time interval and shoulder area stopping the gun, and noise. But....

That shotgun load scares me!