Recoil pad for a Marlin

[eastwood44mag]

Background: Marlin 1894 with a useless recoil pad (old, dry, cracking, hard as a rock). Hot .44 magnum loads are painful to shoot.

I'm looking for the best pad to replace it with. I am not a gunsmith, and I really don't want to spend 4 hours grinding down a pad to fit.

My apologies if this is in the wrong room--I figured since it's rifle related, this is as good a place as any.

 

[Coltdriver]

Get a limbsaver.

I have a very light Encore (7 pounds) with a Marlin .450 barrel on it. This thing generates well over 50 pounds of recoil shooting a 350 grain bullet somewhere north of 2000 fps.

The limbsaver is the only reason I can shoot the .450 Marlin. I bet they make one that just screws on to your stock. Remove old pad, screw on new pad, viola new and enjoyable rifle. I am pretty sure they make a slip on if they don't make a direct screw on replacement.

 

[Deer Hunter]

I suggest you check out The Shooter's Friend from Cabela's. I find that they are better than Limbsaver pads, and cost less as well. They make my 6 pound 12 gauge a joy to shoot with 3" loads.



http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/t...matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=Shooter's+Friend&noImage=0

 

[KIMBER45TLE]

Experience

I can only tell you through my most recent experience that Limbsaver is a very good product. I just bought one on Saturday and mounted it on my Weatherby Vanguard 300 Weatherbey with a synthetic stock. It felt like I was shooting a 243 at the range this morning. This does not mean there aren't other products just as good if not better that's just my most recent experience.

 

[_N4Z_]

You can do it.

I put a Limbsaver on my Marlin336 30-30. I'm not a gunsmith either. Just unscrewed the old buttplate, put some dark stain on the end as it wasn't a "perfect" fit, and screwed on the new rubber baby buggy bumper.

No problem.

 

[eastwood44mag]

N4Z-

What size did you use?

 

[_N4Z_]

#10102 Limbsaver Precision-Fit Recoil Pad. Went and dug around and I still have the box!

Looking at it there is a list of rifles that this particular pad will work on. Of the Marlins it covers 336, 444, 450, 512. I bet you'll need a different one. Think I found this thing at BassPro by rumaging through all the racks. There is also a website for them here on the box too... www.limbsaver.com Bet you can get what you need to know there.

Good luck.

 

[Sunray]

"...spend 4 hours grinding down a pad..." It takes about 10 minutes with a bench mounted belt sander. Masking tape on the wood and sand the excess down. Mind you, a slip on takes about 10 seconds.

 

[Surefire]

N4Z,

The limbsaver fits the 336 precisely, even the screw holes?

I'm asking because I got a Decelerator pad (made by Pachmayre), and its giving me fits. The pad was made for the 336 and matches precisely, except the screw holes don't match. The instructions say to cover up the old holes and drill new ones.

Long story short, the new hole is partially on one of the old holes, so I worry I will be eating up the stock. BTW, what the heck does one use to cover up the old holes? I have wood filler, but I'm not sure how strong it its.

If the limbsaver just screws in without worrying about adding more holes, I'd like it better.

 

[_N4Z_]

No, not that lucky. One hole lined up if I remember right, but I had to drill the other. Just used a drill bit slightly smaller than the provided screws and it worked just fine. Just go slow and be careful.

I didn't fill in the old hole either... What for? Won't do anything for you, can't see it, and it will not strengthen the stock filling it with puddy.

 

[Surefire]

What about if I have to partially drill over another hole, doubling the hole size. Wouldn't that weaken the screw connection?

 

[_N4Z_]

Yep, you'd need a bigger screw.

 

[hoghunting]

Surefire,
Go to your home improvement center and buy a 1/4" dowel rod and a 1/4" drill bit. Drill the existing hole with the 1/4" bit about 1 1/4" deep. Put wood glue in the hole and on a 2" piece of dowel and hammer the dowel into the hole until it stops. Cut off the excess and let the glue dry, then drill your new hole.

 

[sm]

http://www.lymanproducts.com/pachmayr/index.htm

http://www.lymanproducts.com/pachmayr/index.htm

http://www.lymanproducts.com/pachmayr/index.htm

 

[eastwood44mag]

Sunray-

I only have a file and a dull knife--a belt sander would be a lifesaver.