Cresent Buttstocks and Recoil Pads?|General Discussions & Questions|Forum|Winchester Collector

Dave M. said
Ok guys, shooting a rifle with the cresent buttplate in 44-40 or 32-40 isn’t bad.
But shooting a 38-55, 45-70, or 45-90 is just painfull.
Can anyone recommend a slip on recoil pad to help with the discomfort?
Thanks
  

The only calibers I have that are painful are the 45-70’s with heavy bullets and the 35 Win.  All the rest aren’t bad even with rifle butts. 

TXGunNut said
PAST makes a great wearable recoil pad, they even make a magnum model for the serious thumpers. They need to be replaced every five years or so as the cushioning material doesn’t age well. This type pad tends to reduce the increase of the length of pull you sometimes get with lace-on recoil pads. 
 
Mike
  

Do you think the PAST material is Sorbothane?  I’ve wondered if the Limbsaver pads don’t lose their effectiveness by hardening up over time. 

You’ve reminded me I need to order a PAST – mine is circa 1989 and useless. It will be a magnum this time – you know eventually we’ve got to shoot my 375 Holland, even if it is a post-64.  You can have the honor of the first shot. 

Mine turned rock hard some years ago.

Walmart, Limbsavers, $25, 3 sizes. Work even on crescent butts. I’m never without several.

Fred,

I’ve never confronted dangerous game unless you count feral hogs. I’ve never hunted outside the State of Texas except for a little bit in Mississippi. My experience is limited to Whitetailed Deer,  Rio Grande turkeys, the said hogs,  various gamebirds, and the occasional Star-crossed coyote. 

Having a Cape Buffalo stare at me balefully like I owed him money he intended to collect right then, or walking into heavy brush after a big dog leopard I’d foolishly wounded, are things I’ve never experienced.  I do intellectually understand the risk and potential consequences —  an old friend was badly mauled by an unwounded leopard who’d simply grown tired of being tracked.

But when it comes to the physiological and neurological effects of adrenaline, you are preaching to the choir. In addition to its analgesic effect – desensitized pain recognition — I have many times experienced how it dramatically increases alertness, focus, and memory consolidation. All part of the “fight-or-flight” syndrome. 

This beneficially occurred piloting a small, general aviation aircraft, when required to execute a somewhat complicated instrument approach – say, an ILS back course approach where the Localizer works backward — at a busy airport. Even in moderate weather. 

More frequently, every time over 40 years when I had to pick a jury and possess my soul without apparent nervousness, as all those people filed into the courtroom. Invariably I experienced a very private horror that I had never been to school for seven years, had not prepared the case, and would soon be disbarred as a fraud on the public. Mercifully, the old epinephrine would gin up and restore me to life while hizzoner welcomed them,  so that, by the time I was bid to stand up and make a noise,  the golden words poured forth with confident sincerity.

So, hopefully, I would not heave a Winchester African at the Buffalo and run like Hemingway’s Dr. McComber.  It is unlikely in my age and circumstances I’ll ever have a chance to find out. I’m aways glad to hear the experiences of my friends. 

Concur.

I wanted to suggest same as King Medallion, but was afraid someone would laugh at me, but since he did already, I’ll verify the same?

I got a plain leather buttstock cover from Leverguns Leather long ago, mainly for two reasons? 1st to protect my 30-30’s cause I use my rifle as a walking stick a lot up steep mountains, old age & knees! I do it constantly regardless of rifle im hunting with!

2nd, to increase LOP on my Leverguns cause of bad elbow, very tough to contract it tight to work the Lever. Since ive retired, this has gotten lot better, so I kinda favor the LOP now on them.

But ive used the BSC on number rifles, and couple crescent butts? Cut a strip of leather belt that is od similar width, first piece maybe 1.5″ for bottom of the curve, next strip little longer, and again as needed. It fills the curve, can extend LOP, with extra regular length pieces, cut & kept for each rifle, all for the same BSC, provided it fits the rifle! 

Amazingly good Recoil Tamer, Customized to every rifle needed!

Dad taught me this in late 60’s, we had one tie on leather cover. It was a 10 year old answer to adding extra leather strips to tame hard kicking 12ga Model 37’s. 

Zeb, I love to read your descriptions of circumstances, Lol! A broken neck, with a metal fusion makes recoil a serious consideration also!

From your description of an unfamiliar material id say sounds perfect. Too soft is not the answer, especially for heavy recoil! Id say your plan is gonna work! Another good attribute of the leather belt technique is when you get everything cut just right, can glue all the pieces near and thru center, leave ends to slide n move as needed. 

But your material if can be cut as a mass solid, is gonna work for sure, probably the best plan! Another option i haven’t tried, but thought of if needed in future, is the hard foam exercise workout blocks from Walmart.  Ive used em to make new foam inserts in bow quiver. Very tough, easy to slowly carve to exact size needed, and will hold together where whittled thin. At least I believe them a possibility haven’t tried?

It’s so hot now humid here can’t hardly stand it. Cut grass n weedeat earlier, im done to the recliner, in need of aids! Keep Texas the great state it is, if I had leave Ky, which I highly doubt, texas would be a consideration definitely!

But now there real good news up here right now? I fought off the bears, not much exaggeration, yesterday and picked blackberries. My lifelong favorite sweet treat, I absolutely love em, fixing eat few, cooked about 15 minutes slowly,  sweetened, eat with Crossaint Rolls. Almost and very near as good as mom’s BB Pies from the good old days, im a happy camper today!

Oh I love Cades Cove, and I know about few those Griz-Black Bears there! There’s also some Buck WT’s there that’d do well in record books! IDK what they’re growing there for them, but they obviously living in Big Game Paradise! Ive not been lucky enough to see the big boys there, but my best friend hit jackpot about two years ago. Sent me pics of bear n deer i couldn’t believe!

We’ve got em here that easily qualify as Grizz, and plenty to spare. Didn’t see many thru the spring, unusual. Then since 1st June, they’re everywhere, my yard is a crosswalk between streets, and they know when garbage  day is. Mid June-July is rut, them big mountain boars come down for these young city girls! First two weeks June, I saw at least one almost every time I went out anywhere or close house morning or evening! They absolutely demolish the blackberries! i see 10to1 more bears than deer. Most of us despise the bears, they’re absolute nuisance. But i enjoy encounters in woods, except a few way to close. Way to Close!

I think two years ago, one tore siding off a house before it was run off, bad damage. It was an enclosed back porch, they had trash inside wall for next morning trash pickup. The bear didn’t wait, found it night before. Also two year ago, one bit a lady sun lounging in her back yard. I knew this bear well, saw him 3-5 times week. Im sure the woman n bear discovered each other at same time, it reacted by biting her ankle pretty bad! That bear was hunted and taken off by F&G within few days. Both these happened just few streets away from my house.