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What do you guys do about your guns that have a rubber pad on them that tends to stick when mounting it (like a decelerator pad)?

I've used electrical tape in the past and find it to be too ugly to use on a nice gun. I was actually thinking about rubbing in some type of wax, but before I ventured down that path, I want to hear from all of you.

I prefer leather covered pads, but I tend to have a really long length of pull, which means I'm generally adding anywhere from one to a number of spacers, which makes the leather pad less of an alternative when not getting a custom stock.

I would appreciate your insight.

Thanks,

Josh

I've seen guys with leather glued on the end of the pad. The Pachmyr SC pad has a hard plastic insert at the heel to prevent hanging up.

I use a Pachymier SC100 pad mostly. I believe that is the one Chuck is alluding to. You can also buy a bottle of liquid stuff that you can paint on the areas of any pad you need to be slippery. It is expensive. I don't know the name but I am sure someone with more experience will come by with other suggestions. How about some spray silicone.

I've never used it on a decellerator, but clear spray laquer works great on pads like the "period correct" pads.

Jeff

Josh,
I've used crazy glue on pachymar and other pads to slick up the top and sides. On a really spongy pad like a decelerator the coating will crackle a bit after a lot of shooting, but still be slick. Here's a harder pad that is coated on the top down to the first screw hole and along the sides. I wrap a finger in saran wrap and apply it like that.Protect the black spacer with tape. It might take two go-rounds to get the coverage right. Once hard it can be polished with steel wool.

Well, Josh, you got good suggestions for slicking up a pad.

But I'm gonna take this statement...

"I would appreciate your insight."

as an excuse to suggest something else. I suggest you leave that pad just as sticky as it is and learn to mount your gun so it doesn't matter. If you can do that, not only does the problem go away, but you will have improved your gun mount. I use Kick Eez and Decelerators on my target guns; I don't treat them because the pad never touches my body when mounting from a low gun hold. The first fundamental of a proper mount on a clay target is to move the lead hand first, meaning the butt instantly breaks contact with the vest.

I pretty much agree with Mike, but it sounds to me like you are putting too many spacers on your guns to begin with. Did you ever think about just shortening the LOP? The object of a pad is to pretty much stick to your shoulder to begin with. That way it doesn't slide around when you move to shoot. I like my pads to stick to my shoulder, anyway. Good luck.

Thanks guys. All good advice.

And I agree to the points made by Mike and Jimmy.

My question actually links to an earlier post where I eluded to the fact that during the cold periods in NY, I often have a lot more bulk on, and it seems to be enough to "catch" every once in a while.

There's no question that a good mount is important in all of this.

I've occasionally used Kick-Eez Slick-Eez on the sides of Kick-Eez pads installed on my sporting clays guns, although not on the back surface, which I don't like to have slippery. I haven't used it on any other maker's pads, but they say it can be used on any except Terminators. It is available from Brownells: http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/store/productdetail.aspx?p=7402

Yeti,
that is a great idea. Much better looking than a Pachymier SC100 and much more versatile.

Most pads don't need anything but when your out hunting and your jacket is open it is easy to catch the pad and hard to disengage it quickly and try again if you have a sticky pad.