What do you use to brace your shotgun?

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Last few times I've gone out clay shooting I've come home with some decent bruising on my shoulder. My stance seems to be fine and I'm not holding the shotgun off my shoulder. Just wondering what most people use to absorb the recoil?
 
PAST shoulder pads are easy to use:
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It should stop bruising, anyway. Although maybe hold has something to do with it too. I have a Winchester pad.
 
Winchester Low Noise, Low Recoil.

Make sure your LOP is correct.

Or roll your own if you can. I shoot a 3/4oz at 1100fps and with my 8.5lb gun, recoil is a non issue. Clays still break, I suspect they would with a 1/2oz load as well, but its too much hassle to load.

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While trying to sight in a new rifle last summer, the fella beside me was loading 5 slugs into a short tacticalish 12 gauge, and firing them into the 25 yard target as fast as he could, then would reload as fast as he could and repeat. He went through at least 120 slugs while I was beside him, and who knows how many more before I'd arrived. I'd like to know what HE was using for padding under his jean jacket.

Also, the least pleasant sighting in I'd ever done. Think my ears are still ringing.
 
Went to a bachelor party once, where the night's entertainment was going to be a bonfire and shooting clays in the back 40. I new we'd go through a lot of shells, and didn't want to look like a #####, so I duct taped some strips of foam I'd cut out of my wife's yoga mat (like she'll ever notice) to the inside of my jacket. Went through the 300 shells I'd brought, plus nearly 200 more that some of the other guys gave up on after they got sore. Didn't bruise at all, and I didn't bother telling them why ;-)
 
kodiakjack said:
While trying to sight in a new rifle last summer, the fella beside me was loading 5 slugs into a short tacticalish 12 gauge, and firing them into the 25 yard target as fast as he could, then would reload as fast as he could and repeat. He went through at least 120 slugs while I was beside him, and who knows how many more before I'd arrived. I'd like to know what HE was using for padding under his jean jacket.

Also, the least pleasant sighting in I'd ever done. Think my ears are still ringing.
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Kinda like beating ones head against a brick wall if you ask me....
Recoil Pads are a marvelous invention.
Rob
 
The recoil pad that came with my beretta shooting vest seems to do a good job. Some kind of weird blue gel. But then I'm not overly recoil sensitive to start off with. The first time I went to an actual trap event I was using a pump and no vest, didn't bother me much (200 rounds, I think? Singles, handicap, then doubles).
 
What kind of shotgun and which shells are you using? Recoil is a product of ejacta mass x ejecta speed/gun weight. Light gun and heavy loads equals much more recoil than heavy gun with light target loads.
 
Cardamonfrost said:
Winchester Low Noise, Low Recoil.

Make sure your LOP is correct.

Or roll your own if you can. I shoot a 3/4oz at 1100fps and with my 8.5lb gun, recoil is a non issue. Clays still break, I suspect they would with a 1/2oz load as well, but its too much hassle to load.

C
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I haven't been able to find any of these for almost a year now and I'm down to just a couple boxes. Where are you finding them? Cabela's Barrie?
 
Lszwajda said:
Take the tampon out of your purse and tape it to your shoulder. Just joking. Try lighter loads or a better recoil pad
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Haha thats awesome! Ya really a gun that fits properly works wonders.

I know my light hunting gun Winchester 1300 with heavy hot loads is still a bear. But in hunting adrenaline takes over. When shooting clays you want to be comfortable and a heavy gun helps take out the recoil.
 
I put a recoil pad on my 870, any 2-3/4" shell is fine, 100+ even rapid fire is (that wasn't me in kodiakjack's post btw:p ) no problem. But 3" shells are still brutal, 1 or 2 in a hunting scenario, sure but for just general screwing around, no thanks.
 
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