ORIGINAL: ipscshooter
Danny D: Thank you. I was hoping someone here had used them and could give feedback one way or the other. Where I hunt, I've never had to take a shot at a deer more than 100 yards away. My longest shot has been about 175 yards on a pig. I've looked at the ballistics charts as well. The reduced recoil loads carry over 1000 ft lbs of energy all the way out to 400 yards, so, I should be OK with sub 200 yard shots on our relatively small Texas Hill Country whitetails.
oldelkhunter: The rifle is well over 10 years old. I'd bet it's over 20, so, it doesn't exactly have a soft pad on it... I've shot my .30-06 and a friends .270, both with the Remington pads that were in use prior to the R3, and while I find the recoil bearable, I'm still tend to really have to TRY not to flinch. I don't handload for my rifles. I shoot competitively with my shotguns and my .45's, so I reload for them, but, don't really do enough rifle shooting to justify the investment in equipment. Is the Limbsaver the same as the R3? Sounds like that will be my best option.
Ipsc,
Just FYI, I recently put the limbsaver on the 7mag. I, like you, am not a fan of recoil and i have to say that the pad made a huge difference with the full loads. With the limbsaver and the Rem Managed Recoil...WOW it's an easy gun to shoot.
Personally i am fine with the full loads and the pad. In fact I would say that the full loads with the Limbsaver recoil pad is similar to the Managed Recoil loads with the old hard plastic on the butt plate