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Can't really say for sure if the leather covering on the current pad is the one it shipped with. I can say it is very well fit on all sides. H&H has pretty good service and repair records.

I'm with Clapper. The problem I have with original hard plates is the angle they are cut is not right for me and they slip around in gun racks. To me, the checkered butts look like a cheap air rifle and is subject to damage. I'm more interested in what works than looks "correct" but my first choice, for works and looks, is a leather covered pad like in Clapper's picture. My AYA set will be my first attempt at making one, myself.

The style for sure is, not so sure about the skin. Anyway, someone beat me to it, but, a checkered butt is my favorite, followed by a nicely fitted skeleton, followed by a buttplate, checkered ebony or horn is best, but, a decent fitted plastic model is perfectly functional.
I have guns with recoil pads, but, someone else put them there, and I can't undo what they have wrought. I doubt a pad makes a gun any more pleasant to shoot. Best marketing gimick of all time, I'd say.
I hate leather covered pads. Yes, there are some guns they belong on, but, I sold all my guns like that.

Besy,
Ted

At fifteen feet away, the only possible influences on "look" are the subtlety or bravado of color choice and the proper fairing (flush, lines in profile a continuation of stock comb and underline). Everything else has to do with the cache of historical correctness. Buttplates are "better" when original to the gun and bearing some reference to or associaton with the marque, for instance company logo, widow's peak. Leather covered and checkered butts belong on Brit and Brit "homage" guns. Same applies to pads, Ithaca "Sunburst" buttressing looks "better" on an Ithaca double of a specific period than does a Pachmayr Sporting Clays. Inlet heel and toe caps have got to be the worst utilitarian choice ever invented but they also look the "best"; read greatest amount of painstaking labour purchased. I personally like Velcro hook on a checkered butt that's the right LOP; looks like crap but works. I like the looks of leathered covered with the burnished lines best of all.

jack

I am a fan of leather covered pads. I am going to have one added to my AYA XXV as the length of pull is too short and I don't care for how the wood stock grips. I have to say I really dislike stocks with checkered ends as they are too slippery. That is what my AYA came with and it slips all over the place. I like something with a little more grip. Aesthetically, yes a wood stock without a pad looks better IMO but from functionality aspect I think they are lacking.

I prefer a plain rubber recoil pad. Especially if the shotgun is to be used.

Leather covered pads are very nice, but pricey.

gold40

A good recoil pad makes any gun more pleasant to shoot, for me.

IMO

recoil pad for shooting shotguns or heavy recoil
or hard rubber for light recoil

leather cover looks nice but doesn't improve functionality

ENGRAVED heel and toe plates for looks
with checker butt

NOT for serious shooting
just for admiring and drooling

Pads only go on duck guns and some 12 ga target guns. Everything else gets a plate if the LOP is long enough. I have two Spanish guns right now with checkered butts that are way too long for me, and they will be fitted with CSMC RBL plates unless I can find something else that looks better, before dove season.

I found myself in this very butt plate/pad dilemma today with a new gun after a day at the range. I need to change the pitch on this gun to the new angle shown here, as it shoots too high:



I would like to keep the original metal plate, but I have to admit, it does kick, and a pad would be nice, and give me a bit more lop too. The only way to do that and keep the metal plate would be to add an extension, which is a pita.