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The Ithaca "Bridge Trestle" pad first appears in the 1932 Ithaca catalogues and price lists, and is in every Ithaca catalogue and price list I have from then to the Feb. 15, 1949, Dealers Quotes. The same pad begins appearing with an aluminium base by the Fall-Winter 1950-51 illustrated price list.

I am in the same boat and have been considering the sporting clays pad. While a period correct pad would be great, they don't necessarily look better than the modern alternatives. I do think that a rich, red colored pad looks great on a nice piece of wood. My Ruger 3006 has the older hard red butt pad and looks great. It would be perfect if Pachmayer made a thin red decelerator pad, but so far they only have an ugly brown and the standard black. The sporting clays doesn't add much to the look of the gun, either.

The Silvers and thick red pads that Galazan sells are too thick. I would rather see more wood and less pad. My two cents worth.

Researcher, thanks. I was observing the earliest dates a particular pad shows up in my general catalogs. The Ithaca pad appears in the Burkhardt [sp?] first in 1937. Later, also in Stoegers. I guess I am not aware of another gunmaker with it's "own" recoil pad. Prior to their own pad, Ithaca offered rubber pads that resembled a Jostam and also some solid pad.

Thank you all for your replies and opinions. I'm very appreciative.

I'm not necessarily looking for a period correct pad. I'd like something that does it's job and looks nice.

FWIW, Pachmayr makes an orange/red colored D 752 Decelerator pad in 1". More orange but they call it red.

Galazan has a 1/2" hard red pad that looks pretty good. I know they are in stock because I just got three of them this week. London Guns made a 5/8" red pad that also looked right on vintage guns, but they are out of production and inventory is gone; you might find one on the web or post here for WTB. If you need just a bit more length on either of these, you can add one of Tony's black phenolic spacers.

A while back a nest of five new-in-the-box Jostams were on ebay. Some of us picked up some nice new-in-the-box NoShoc pads at The Vintage Cup last September. Just got to keep looking.

You're right. I forgot about Galazan's thin red pads. So the 1/2 inch pads are hard? That might just be the ticket!