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Just wondering........how many of you are putting leather pads on guns? Years ago there was someone on here who was explaining how to do it and I picked up the hobby and over the years have I done several guns for my self and my friends. Are any of you doing leather pad jobs? Where do you get your leather and what kind do you use?

I have had guns with leather pads and while they look great, they do tend to slip in the shoulder more so than the Old English rubber pads by Pachmeyer. I am wrestling right now with a decision about what to put on a best gun that needs pitch altered and just a touch of length.

I have started doing them. I built my own jigs as well. I use mostly Eland but also warthog. I do not have any problem with slippage due to a leather pad. They slide into place and stay there. If a gun is properly fit and properly mounted, it does not slip at all.

I put them on most of my guns. Having one installed now on my Perazzi MX8-20

Eland and Warthog? Wow! Where do you get leather like that? Isn't an Eland one of those moose sized animals with two curved horns? I use goatskin that I have bought off of Ebay. I have a jig, too, BrentD. I have them on my trap and skeet guns. I put one on my "beater" Model 21 that I use for skeet and hunting. It sure dresses up a gun. Good to hear from you guys.

Check the local Thrift Store for used women's purses. There's nice leather in some!

I shot them. Seems like a good way to go leather-wise. I have enough to so a few more pads



Eland seems well suited. It's tough, stretchy, and not particularly hard to work with. The warthog wasn't tanned all that great, and it suffered a hard life between tanning and being used for a pad, so it is a bit more difficult to work with. But great leather in the end. I'd make a point of shooting another for the hide if I were to hunt there again.
(they taste pretty damn awesome too).

We have one of those hanging in our clubhouse at our shooting club. Where did you shoot that? Did you go to Africa? .

that was in Namibia. An amazing country to say the least. If you ever think you might go, do it! As soon as possible. I would pick Namibia again, if I were to do it again.

That sounds awesome!!