Recoil

[bkraft]

Yesterday I experienced one of the most miserable and unpleasant events of my life, I patterned my 835 Mossberg for turkey with 3" #5's. Winchester in the silver box Remington Nitros. So I layed the gun on the bags got a firm grip, a deep breath and cranked off the first round. My GOOD and SWEET LORD that gun kicked the ever lovin #!*^ outta me. I got er done but I did not shoot off the bags again and will not again. My question is short of tradin the beast off(which crossed my mind) were to begin taming the recoil. I'm lookin at a limbsaver pad. Any suggestions?

[marine]

Pachmayer decelerator pads come pre-fit and i think they are pretty good.  While i have never put them on a shotgun i have used them on a 308 and it made a big differance.  My bros 30-06 has a limbsaver and it does equally well.
  If you are like me the recoil from a 12ga is always worse at the range than it is while hunting.  I just take a knee and do my sight in and only a few boxes until i start to lose my form due to recoil.  I live in ohio where we have shotguns to hunt deer with so i just use a 12ga to make the biggest hole i can.  I spend the about a month every year just getting some time on my gun so i am ready for whatever comes my way.  I have been looking at buying a PAST shoulder pad so it is useful for any gun i want to shoot.  One pad for every gun.  I hope this helps a little bit.

[curteric]

Any of the good quality recoil pads should help. I don't know where you live or hunt, but here in Northern Minn., don't use a gel filled pad in cold weather.
Curt

[S.E.Ak]

Wait till your shoulder is against a tree when you pop your bird . Bench is the worst place for recoil and you should realy pattern your gun from a normal shooting position plus felt recoil will be less as it does not bang into your cheek bone

[dukkillr]

I shoot turkeys with a 870 that kicks the snot out of me.  When I bought it I thought it would make a nice backup gun for other purposes too.  I was wrong.  Between the plastic stock and terrible balance, the gun jumps and kicks badly even with dove loads. 

It weighs nothing, and kills turkeys really well, so I keep using it for that, but I only fire it 2-6 times a year, always at turkeys, and I never feel the recoil in a hunting situation.

[huntswithdogs]

When at the bench, particularly with a gun that kicks, get as upright as you can before firing it. Another thing is stock length. I do most of my shotgun shooting in colder weather. A heavy shirt and jacket pad ya down, but you need a shorter stock too. When spring gets here, I add slipon buttpads to my turkey guns. That extra inch helps a lot!

HWD