Magpul Enhanced .70" Buttpad: not soft?

[jlomein]

The magpul enhanced .70" Buttpad (the one with the vented design) is advertised as softening the feel of recoil. I bought it from Brownells intending to use it on a CTR stock for my Remington 870 style shotgun (along with an AR stock adapter).

However, this buttpad feels very hard. Using hand strength, I can barely get the rubber vented areas to compress at all. The buttpad also has a hard rubber spine running up the center of the pad (between the vents on both sides) which further prevents the buttpad from compressing.

Is this normal? This pad is much more hard and rigid than most pads designed for shotguns. I realize this buttpad was designed for AR's, I just want to check.

 

[Amazingkg3]

If you don't like it, PM and ill take it off your hands!

 

[hbean]

it's normal, short of side of beef there really isn't any pad out there can dampen a recoil of a 12 gauge.

 

[Canadian eh!]

If you don't like it, PM and ill take it off your hands!

ditto on this in case your first offer falls through. I am looking for one to give me a longer length of pull.

 

[jlomein]

Thanks for the responses. I'll try it out first before thinking of selling it. I still need a milspec buffer tube and Magpul stock to install it on (Enhanced .70" Buttpad doesn't fit on commercial buffer tubes when stock is fully collapsed).

I've used soft shotgun buttpads from Limbsaver and Remington, and I believe they reduce the recoil you get from a long session of buck or slugs. I've got my fingers crossed for this one.

 

[TV-PressPass]

I've got one on my fabarm, you can see it here:

It is stiff. But I like it just fine. I made the mistake of using a cheap limbsaver on my side-by-side and it bottoms out with any heavy loads.

 

[blaxsun]

It's softer than the thick/solid rubber pad that you normally find on the mil-spec or commercial CTR.