Recoil Pad for my Savage 116FCSS?

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I have a savage 116 stainless with the crappy tupperware stock. If I have to live with the stock as no one seems to make a replacement stock for drop mag long action savages, I might as well get a good recoil pad to help with the smack. I put an R3 up to it, but it isn't even close to fitting. Holes are way off.
Will a "decelerator" pad fit the holes and profile? Any other suggestions and also where to get the suggestions in Canada please let me know. Thanks
 
If you can find a way to get a stockade stock to Canada legally they make stocks with bedding blocks for the drop mag savages. Heard they make a good product too.

http://w w w.stockadegunstocks.com/stocks.html
 
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I had a long talk with Stockades Gun Stocks recently - really nice guy (at least as far as you can tell talking to someone on the phone). Turns out that it's an extra $150 to get the drop-mag version of the stock (ouch!). He said though, that with slight modification, you could convert to a blind-box mag (use all your existing parts + this little piece he would throw in with the stock), so you could easily use one of the regular stocks w/o having to pay extra (you'd just have to live with a blind-box magazine - something I'm kind of loathe to do, myself).

I also did some looking, and found a gunsmith in Montana that will do the paperwork to legally get you the stock across the border and delivered to your door for $50 + actual shipping costs (which he said usually run about $30), so about $80, give or take a few.

So, yeah, it's very do-able. It's just a bit of extra money and time.
 
The crappy stock you speak of isn't as crappy as you may think. It lends itself easily to bedding, forend stiffening and improvements in the butt stock.
 
If I was even remotely handy, I could look at doing some of those things. But I am not too good with all things sticky. I also live in a place with no gunsmith, so I have no options there either. If anyone has done any of these things to their savage synthetic stock and has a video or something that would show a complete beginner (to bedding/stiffening of the forearm) and to some stock work, I think that would make it more appealing. As I stand now, I wouldn't even attempt to do any of these things, as I dont know what to use (for materials) , and I wouldn't know how to do it,(never seen it done or inspected a gun that had it done to it). I guess you see why I call it a crappy stock. I really have no options to make it better, so I am stuck with it, unless I get some ABC's of how to do it via pictures/video/written.
 
You can ship your rifle to most gunsmiths, for eg. ellwoodepps, Corlane Sports, etc and they can do the bedding, recoil pad, triggerwork etc...
 
Many gunsmiths will install a "Grind to Fit" Limbsaver for about $30-$40. Those pads do lengthen the LOP, but the two rifles that I retrofitted with the Limbsaver are OK with the longer LOP.
 
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