Personally, I find that ventilated recoil pads on air rifles are a joke, and have done for ever since they started fitting them. I think the first one I saw was on a BSA Airsporter S I bought. I don't mind the Weihrauch rubber butt pad but a ventilated recoil pad is ridiculous. My first air rifle was a BSA Meteor Mk2 which had a 'grooved' beechwood' stock and so did had the Airsporters at the time, but with plain walnut stocks.
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Recoil pads on air rifles.
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MrBean007
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I thought the same especially as we are using PCP's but the wife and daughter were using the
Reign M2's and they both said their shoulders hurt. I had to ask how tightly were they pulling
the gun into their shoulders to feel pain. No recoil so it cannot be that.
Maybe just not used to it yet and only wearing t-shirts on Friday because it was a scorcher, or
maybe they are confusing it with muscle pain because we have not been shooting for a couple of
years and we were at the club from 10:30 to 4:30?
Too long for our 2nd outing and this time we were notalways at the bench, had a few targets
in the woods also. They were hitting stuff I missed so we will skip that bit...
Reign M2's and they both said their shoulders hurt. I had to ask how tightly were they pulling
the gun into their shoulders to feel pain. No recoil so it cannot be that.
Maybe just not used to it yet and only wearing t-shirts on Friday because it was a scorcher, or
maybe they are confusing it with muscle pain because we have not been shooting for a couple of
years and we were at the club from 10:30 to 4:30?
Too long for our 2nd outing and this time we were notalways at the bench, had a few targets
in the woods also. They were hitting stuff I missed so we will skip that bit...
Tricky-Dicky
Member Extraordinaire
Not sure just why the design of a butt pad should matter as long as it's comfortable on your shoulder, a lot of modern powder burners have very little if any recoil design in them these days, just a styling cue from my POV.
I think your the female members of your family should check out with an osteopath, because I have had shoulder problems which have got worse over the years. But I was told by an osteopath quite a while ago that I had problems from birth. So maybe that is the case with your family and it can probably be improved has mine was.I thought the same especially as we are using PCP's but the wife and daughter were using the
Reign M2's and they both said their shoulders hurt. I had to ask how tightly were they pulling
the gun into their shoulders to feel pain. No recoil so it cannot be that.
Maybe just not used to it yet and only wearing t-shirts on Friday because it was a scorcher, or
maybe they are confusing it with muscle pain because we have not been shooting for a couple of
years and we were at the club from 10:30 to 4:30?
Too long for our 2nd outing and this time we were notalways at the bench, had a few targets
in the woods also. They were hitting stuff I missed so we will skip that bit...
That's it, they're not stylish at all they're for pansies.
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chouchin66
Top Tier member
Those little ventilations are handy for packing 10 pellets on a field outing, though.
JonnieP
Member Extraordinaire
Agree 100%Those little ventilations are handy for packing 10 pellets on a field outing, though.
Hiram
Super member
I once owned a Ruger Model 1 light weight in .30-06. I got it after reading "The Dangerous Book for Boys" and thought that it was pretty analogous for a full grown adult in the USA vis a vis the recommendation of a sub12 air rifle for British boys. I just liked the concept of one shot at a time followed by a deliberate reload. I shot it sans scope. It hurt like hell bench rested. Really did. Very little in the way of butt pad, it made me wince with every shot. I soon gave up (despite my accuracy with the wand-weight of the thing) and traded it in for a Winchester 94 in .357 Magnum. Much more civilized.
Air rifles... any air rifles, pshaw! Zero recoil to worry about, comparatively speaking. There is nothing to an air rifle that makes me worry about knocking a filling loose.
For that matter, any 12 gauge has a hell of a lot more pop on the shoulder than an air rifle I've ever shot. Any 20 gauge for that matter.
There is no need at all for a recoil absorbing butt pad on an air rifle, IMHO. Part of the charm of air rifles, to me, is how demure and civilized, yet still effective, air rifles are.
Air rifles... any air rifles, pshaw! Zero recoil to worry about, comparatively speaking. There is nothing to an air rifle that makes me worry about knocking a filling loose.
For that matter, any 12 gauge has a hell of a lot more pop on the shoulder than an air rifle I've ever shot. Any 20 gauge for that matter.
There is no need at all for a recoil absorbing butt pad on an air rifle, IMHO. Part of the charm of air rifles, to me, is how demure and civilized, yet still effective, air rifles are.
The thin rubber protects the wood work
Robsmyth
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I believe butt pads on air rifles are fitted to protect the butt rather than the shoulder.
Dudd I
Member Extraordinaire
Also stops the butt sliding along the floor when you haven't lent the rifle against the wall properly. Likewise, sliding off the the bench if the gore rest is too high (seen that a couple of times).
The ventilated version might be to cool the braking effect when it's sliding
The ventilated version might be to cool the braking effect when it's sliding
Jay Butts
Member Extraordinaire
When the butt pad is fully adjustable, it helps with eye/scope alignment. When on my permission, I can pick up my rifle, position the stock correctly on my shoulder and everything is straightaway ready to target the quarry.
Squintykid
Super member
All of the above and probably saves the need for a 30mm longer blank
spikey
Super member
I like them - and not because of the recoil, which is clearly not an issue with an air-rifle (or really with anything until you get to nasties such as the .270 Win.), but because they provide a non-slip surface for the shoulder. They also allow you to rest the butt on a hard surface without marring a blued-steel buttplate or wooden end.
The Bisley adjustable recoil pad is deeply concave, and relatively inexpensive.
Backgardenplinker
Member Extraordinaire
Never really worried about it. Just shoot a rifle with or without a pad
frenchy3
Super member
I fired a .700 nitro express double rifle and the recoil pad had the shock absorbing capability of a floor tile! Gave me a headache and rattled my fillings but a lot of fun.
Mark Palmer
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I've got one of these for my project gun, I chose it fo its adjustability and the curvature, for accurate and repeatable shoulder fit..
, it does the trick