Recoil Reducers

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Ok who knows anything about recoil reducers, I know just adding weight helps but does anything beyond that actually do anything. I shoot a SxS and have installed a pachmeyer recoil pad which helped immensely.

The gun is balanced a bit forward of the hinge pin anyway so adding a small amount of weight to the stock should be a good thing from my understanding of balance.

Is there any particular recoil reducers that are better or worse? I suspect hydraulic will be useless in the winter out shooting at -30 so was thinking of air piston or mercury but I don't know how they react to weather or if they are of any value anyway.

Any help?
 
The limbsaver works very well and with it installed can be cheaper than some of the higher end recoil reducers that are on the market, especially Brownells.
 
I assume you guys are referring to recoil pads by limbsaver which I agree are nice, but what I'm looking for is information about the kind of recoil reducers you put inside the buttstock to I think spread the recoil over a longer time frame reducing felt recoil. Anyone know anything about them?
 
The mercury filled recoil reducers don't seem to be adversly affected by cold temperatures.If you have access to lead shot pellets, putting about 1/3 full in your stock bolt hole reduces recoil or take a 3" piece of 5/8" O.D. copper pipe, fill it with molten lead and insert it in the stock bolt hole.The lead pellet idea will eventually crack the buttplate or even loosen a recoil pad if you shoot a lot.
 
based on most of the non-biased reviews of the mercury recoil reducers (ie: not the ones written or paid for by the people that make or sell them), the consensus seems to be that yes they do reduce recoil, but the vast majority of that recoil reduction comes from simply having added the weight of the mercury recoil reducer and not the actual physics of the thing.

so with that in mind they seem like a tremendous waste of money and youd get almost the same effect for pennies by simply adding lead to your stock as described above.

the knoxx recoil reducing stocks do work, however.
 
The mercury filled reducers don't seem to be adversly affected by cold weather.Another option is to fill the stock bolt hole about 1/3 full of lead shot, however continous shooting will break the butt plate and loosen a recoil pad.Another option is a 3" piece of copper pipe, 5/8" and fill it with molten lead and insert it into the stock bolt hole.Some sxs's stocks don't have a bolt in the butt and join at the reciever. in this case you would have to drill a hole in the stock.These methods really do reduce recoil.
 
Thad said:
Waste of money? You can order them for $50 to your door. www.mercuryrecoil.com
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thats not bad - but thats still about $49 more than simple lead would cost you.
if youre going to spend $50, buy a high quality pad first.

mercury is also one of the most toxic substances on earth, much more so than lead or any of the other chemicals we regularly handle. id be wary buying some cheap homeade mercury capsules, much less attaching them to a shotgun. mercury vaporizes at only 10 degrees celcius.
 
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