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I would be shooting only 7/8 oz. loads, and my weight is a trim 170 lbs.
Jon R. can you recommend a recoil pad no more than 1/2" thick ?
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Stick with standard loads(7/8 oz.) @ 1150 or no more than 1200 fps. Raise the velocity and/or payload significantly and your shoulder will pay for it. The birds won't know the difference, though. Go here and see what difference it can make: http://www.zknives.com/bali/brcstgn.shtmlJL
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I was shooting Pheasants a week ago with my 1938-vintage Fox A-Grade 20-gauge that weighs exactly six pounds. I was even using some 1 1/8 ounce #6 in the left barrel, not that I'd go out and buy such shells but they were in what I inherited from my Godfather. The gun has a straight stock with high dimensions to the original butt plate and recoil was unnoticed shooting at game. I usually use 3/4 or 7/8 ounce 20-gauge shells for clay targets.
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As long as you use standard loads - no magnums, no 3 inchers - a 20ga. that fits you well should be easy shooting. I shoot a 5lb. 14oz. 20ga. SxS, which fits well and gives me no problem with 7/8oz. and 1oz. loads. I normally shoot 7/8oz. loads at skeet and after three or four rounds, have no noticeable recoil problem.
For game I generally use 7/8oz. #8 trap loads for ruffed grouse, and 1oz. of #6s for wild pheasant. I favor the Pachmayr Old English SC pad (brown pad with black heel insert), which both of my SxSs have.
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my little Yildiz is 6Ib and is fitted with a Pachmayr Deacelerater pad it is very mild to shoot with 7/8oz loads and not to bad with 1oz I only use 7/8oz in my 20g if I require more shot I step up to my 12g
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...can you recommend a recoil pad no more than 1/2" thick ?
I also like the Pachmayr Old English pads, but they're thicker than 1/2". Since they ought to be put on by a pro, it would be easy to keep LOP the same after pad installation. For occasional use you might consider: http://www.chuckhawks.com/kick_killer_recoil_pad.htmIt's only 1/2" thick. I have a couple of 12-ga guns that didn't come with recoil pads, and use one of these only when shooting skeet (not in the field) and it's pretty effective at taming the kick.
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My Winchester Model 101 20 g weighs approximately 5lb 12 oz and it is just dandy. Not much boot at all.
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I'm a recoil wuss. My almost 10 lb. tournament gun is even equipped with a JS Air Cushioned stock. My RBL weighs in at exactly 6 lbs. with a .8" Pachmayr Old English Decelerator fitted to the uncut stock. Original LOP was 14¾" and is now 15¼". For clay targets I've whipped up some sweet shooting 11/16oz. 20ga. loads using 15 gr. of Unique, the Remmy GC's or GL hulls, and the current, "new" WAA20 wad.
The comfort level between these and a standard 7/8oz. target load is remarkable. I could easily shoot 200 of these a day without a problem.
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I had a Rizzini o/u 20 gauge at exactly 6.25 lbs. I regularly shot shot 1 oz Golden Pheasant #5 in it and never noticed the recoil in a hunting scenario. Recoil from 7/8 oz loads that I shot for quail were negligable.
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Pachmayr Decelerators are available in .6", .8" and 1". The .6" pad will not give you much recoil help. I like them on .410s and 28s, just to make them less slippery in a gun rack. I'd recommend .8" at the minimum and 1" is better. If you're going to do it, do it right. Have the but cut to suit you and have a good pad fitted properly. Pads put on a curved butt look like an amateur did the job, IMO.
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