Any of you guys ever use one of these?

[Shadowalker164]

I haven’t tried it yet, still waiting for the bruising to clear up. It feels good in place, and it might ease that bracing I do for the kick that ain’t helping my groups

 

[Flintandsteel]

Perhaps you’re using too much powder.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Nope, never have, Never needed. A .45 or .50 cal. with reasonable loads does not recoil enough to be bothersome to most people. I think that is primarily marketed to modern shotgun trap shooters.

 

[Shadowalker164]

I was shooting a 50 cal Kentucky long rifle with 80 grains of FFG and round balls. After around ball 20 I could not find a spot on my shoulder that did not hurt. It actually beat my shoulder black and blue.

 

[Grimord]

I was shooting a 50 cal Kentucky long rifle with 80 grains of FFG and round balls. After around ball 20 I could not find a spot on my shoulder that did not hurt. It actually beat my shoulder black and blue.

When practicing at the range, or working up a load with rifles of 50 caliber or higher I always wear my "Past" sissy pad. Those curved brass or iron butt plates can really bruise when shooting from the bench. Offhand, I don't have any problems.

 

[Shadowalker164]

Yea, it was bench

 

[deerstalkert]

Shadowalker, if you are mounting that long rifle on your shoulder that is the problem.
turn your body away from the target and mount that butt against your bicep and brace the arm across your body. no shoulder bruise .

 

[Rock Home Isle]

I was shooting a 50 cal Kentucky long rifle with 80 grains of FFG and round balls. After around ball 20 I could not find a spot on my shoulder that did not hurt. It actually beat my shoulder black and blue.

Yup, yup, yup…most of my shooting is fine.

But when I’m getting ready for big game; elk & deer season, the recoil from my hunting loads really bothers me. I feel every shot from the bench…once I’m hunting, don’t even notice. I attribute this sensitivity to my Pedersoli .50 calibre Alamo Rifle. The thin stock on that gun just cuts like a knife into my shoulder, when shooting hunting loads.

To this day, heavy loads bother me from the bench…out in the field, zilche, nada, nothing.

 

[Maven]

I haven’t tried it yet, still waiting for the bruising to clear up. It feels good in place, and it might ease that bracing I do for the kick that ain’t helping my groups

As already mentioned, when shooting CF or ML rifles off the bench, especially the latter with crescent butt plates, I wear one of those. Much less bruising and recoil induced flinching that way.

 

[Britsmoothy]

As our friend says you are mounting the rifle wrong.

 

[deermanok]

I had something similar for shooting a 12 gauge slug gun.
It really helped.

 

[Archer 756]

BS on mounting wrong shoot my s/s 10 ga and one WLL NEED ONE

 

[Britsmoothy]

 

[user 49399]

I was shooting a 50 cal Kentucky long rifle with 80 grains of FFG and round balls. After around ball 20 I could not find a spot on my shoulder that did not hurt. It actually beat my shoulder black and blue.

Bob McBride of Blackpowder TV has a good video on how to mount a southern mountain rifle with a crescent butt stock. So does Britsmoothy.

I only use 50 grains of 2f in my .50 caliber Kentucky long rifle and it’s very accurate out to 50 yards and probably more. This load is also easy on the old man doing the shooting.

 

[russellshaffer]

I use a garden shop kneeling pad for bench shooting anything with recoil. Just stick it between the gun and my shoulder. It makes a huge difference and I can use the pad for kneeling, too. They come in several sizes so get one of the thin, narrow ones.

 

[Britsmoothy]

BS on mounting wrong shoot my s/s 10 ga and one WLL NEED ONE

I shoot my 10g without one. 100gns and 2oz plus.
It doesn't have a hooked or curved butt plate though.

 

[deerstalkert]

my comment was addressed to the Kentucky long rifle that was being used. the crescent BP on them was designed to be "arm pit" mounted not like a shotgun or a fowler. BS maybe but it works for my boney physique.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

A Limb Saver boot is a much better set up and it stays on the rifle, not on you.

 

[Britsmoothy]

A Limb Saver boot is a much better set up and it stays on the rifle, not on you.

Do they fit hooked butt plates?

 

[springfield art]

Bob McBride of Blackpowder TV has a good video on how to mount a southern mountain rifle with a crescent butt stock. So does Britsmoothy.

I only use 50 grains of 2f in my .50 caliber Kentucky long rifle and it’s very accurate out to 50 yards and probably more. This load is also easy on the old man doing the shooting.

That charge is way too much. Good accuracy will be found much lighter. Try it, you'll like it!