Yep, I'm a sissy.

If you want to hide your padding install one of the laced on rifle slings. A leather cup goes over the butt stock a strap to the fore end and tied to your gun. It is long enough to completely cover the rubber pad. And works to carry your gun.
I also have a slip on recoil pad on a Mauser with a steel buttplate . It works!

If it's too much then one cannot do too much to make it better. I also have severe pain and do what I can to get comfortable. You're not a "sissy" you're logical about it.

necchi said:

My favorite rifle is a Cabelas "Sporterized" Hawken.
Comes with a factory installed rubber butt, I made a leather cover and stitched it over the top.
Nobody has ever questioned, ever..

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Thats one of my favorites as well. I have a .54 and a .58.

I dont use extra pads but ya know......I did shoot some 1f in the .58 and though it grouped a bit high it grouped VERY well and caused ZERO DISCOMFORT. I have the 1f for my 20ga cuz it will slap the h_oly manure outta yer cheek. Loves 1F though.... pattern improved and I tend to fire more rounds with my eyes open with 1F.

Yep, I am a sissy too.

TFoley said:

Don't let anybody ever take a rise of of a person using a butt-pad to help them continue to shoot without pain. I once let a a big-mouth impress his g/f by removing the butt-pad off my unmentionable with its crescent-shaped butt.

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The load was a top-end replication of a 500gr .45-70 cartridge that I keep especially for the odd appearance of an 'expert shooter' like him. In a 6.5# rifle, too.

Just one shot was all it took - his tears splashed on my shooting jacket from a good six feet away.

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I have had a similar experience. I was shooting an original Springfield, Trapdoor Carbine in 45-70 caliber. I let the guy shoot my gun. I had a 405-grain bullet and 55 grains of black powder

We're not sissies, we are old!

I put one of those on the butt of my Charleville. NOT because of recoil, but — I don't want to rough up the steel butt plate on the concrete floor when I load my musket.

I'm a sissy too. My cheek couldn't take the slap from my 54 Hawken. Ouch!

PAIN is mother natures way of saying, "Just how stupid are you?" Use what ever is necessary to shoot accurately.

Eutycus said:

We're not sissies, we are old!

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you got to be tuff to get old.

gunpa said:

I'm a sissy too. My cheek couldn't take the slap from my 54 Hawken. Ouch!

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what ever keeps you in the game is good!

I knew people that owned many different "heavy" caliber unmentionables, and they would always be amazed when they asked if I wanted to try it, and I said No thanks. I used to tell them, if i really wanted pain, I could just hit my thumb with a hammer! No need to go through all the trouble of shooting their monstrosity!

After pacemaker surgery at age 66 I had to switch from shooting left handed to right handed. I've replaced the 50 and 54 Renegades with a 45 Seneca for BP shoots. I even used a 32 CVA for a year to learn to shoot right handed. The 30/06 got traded off too for a 243. I"m 70 now.

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After pacemaker surgery at age 66 I had to switch from shooting left handed to right handed. I've replaced the 50 and 54 Renegades with a 45 Seneca for BP shoots. I even used a 32 CVA for a year to learn to shoot right handed. The 30/06 got traded off too for a 243. I"m 70 now.

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Yup, you do what you have to do to stay in the game. My brother hunted with an 30-06 his entire life. I used a .270 because it had less recoil. He always made fun of me for not being able to handle the "recoil" of the 30-06. The ribbing Never made me change what I used!

One of my 45/70s had a wicked curved steel butt plate.
It now has a Limbsaver on it. My buds think I ruined the rifle, better than ruining my A/C3 Sep.

popgun54tc said:

you got to be tuff to get old.

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I wish I were half as tough as my grandpa but you're so right. There's a saying something like that "Growing old is not for sissies".

chorizo said:

I am not recoil sensitive at all, but if a pad is on a gun, I sure as hell not taking it off.

There is a difference between not being sensitive and being stupid. I am glad you found something that works. I am of the opinion that whoever invented crescent buttplates should have their fingers repeatedly slammed in a doorjamb

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Like the old saying goes........."we spent the first half of our lives trying to kill ourselves and the last half trying to stay alive and in one piece".

Lord knows this ole boy has been patched back together more times than I care to think about. It reminds me daily.

William Lincoln said:

They need to make one that mimics Buckskin, or it could be coated
to blend in. Hold your rifle firm to the shoulder and do not let the
stock slam you from a loose hold. During hunting season wear
a thick lined jacket or coat when possible. Wear eye and ear protection.
All the above advice is good. Great posts.

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"Hold your rifle firm to the shoulder and do not let the
stock slam you from a loose hold." That is the First Commandment of dealing with recoil. You should experience recoil as a push, not a punch.

No matter how tightly I held the buttstock to my shoulder, it felt like a punch to my cheek bone each time I fired off my 300 Win Mag. And at the range I wore my PAST shoulder pad with that rifle.

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No matter how tightly I held the buttstock to my shoulder, it felt like a punch to my cheeck bone each time I fired off my 300 Win Mag. And at the range I wore my PAST shoulder pad with that rifle.

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I have fired many rifles in my life time, and some of them just did not like me!! They were sold!

GregK said:

No matter how tightly I held the buttstock to my shoulder, it felt like a punch to my cheeck bone each time I fired off my 300 Win Mag. And at the range I wore my PAST shoulder pad with that rifle.

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There is a group of old guys at the club who spend all their time shooting skeet and trap. To a man they all use unmentionable Model 12's, but no two of them look alike. Each man has modified his stock to suit his own dimensions and preferences. Some are cut shorter. Some are lengthened. Lots of moleskin patches to alter other aspects and dimensions. Sometimes the moleskin gets replaced with carved wooden additions. Sometimes it just stays. These guys break clays with monotonous regularity. A miss is so rare as bring raucous joshing.

My thought is why do not more of us personalize the fit of our long guns? Get a second stock to experiment with and keep the original mint if you like. We'd likely make some ugly ducklings that we could shoot much better than we shoot the unaltered guns.