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Anyone know what year whiteline kickpads first came out? thanks Donnie

Donnie:
From the look of things, shortly after the invention of gunpowder... collaterally with the decline of good taste.

Best, Kensal

I recall that back in the early '60s, Whitelines were popular enough that I cut plastic Clorox jugs to make 'home-made' white line inserts and put them between the stock and the butt-plate on every gun and rifle in the house. Dad (mostly his guns) was not amused!...Geo

The Fray-Mershon "Whiteline" recoil pads came out in the late 1930s/early 1940s. About 1950 they were taken over/became Pachmayr.

I don't know when they were first invented and marketed; but they were avaiable in the mid to late 1940's, as they were offered as an option on Marlin era LC Smith guns. At that point they were being marketed simply as the "White Line" pad; then sometime in the 1950's the White Line pad company was purchased by Frank Pachmayer; and from that point forward, was known as the "Pachmayer White Line" pad.

Some still like them, as I do.

Merchants really love the back and forth fad things.

Of course we all remember the Fagen line of "Aristocrat" rifle and shotgun stocks with white line spacers on the butt plate, forend tip and grip cap.

Some is good, more is better, and too much is never enough.

Dr.WtS