don.
I was going to reply to you via PM.
Feel free to PM me with questions.
I am going against my better judgment in replying publicly.
Recoil Reducing Stocks have become a "generic term" referring to Plastic/Polymer configurations, often in black, or other tactical configs, and some resemble AR and other "rifle" stocks.
The term has changed context over the years with the increase of TackTickle being the newest and greatest marketing hype.
Recoil Reduction is not new.
Shotgunners that shoot competitively, shooting 10,000 to say 25,000 rds a year ( and more) for years and years , will over time, develop physical aversions to a shotgun being fired.
100,000, 200,000, 300,000, half a million rounds later, and more the human body , being designed to protect itself, through various mechanisms, does not want a person to slap a trigger.
Add the persons that have detached retinas, messed up necks, vertabra, backs and other physical "tolls" from just shooting a LOT of shotgun shells over a LOT of years.
Reverse Triggers assist some with flinching.
The body will protect itself by flinching , if a trigger is slapped [pulled back].
The body is "fooled" or "tricked" when a Release Trigger is installed.
One "pulls" this trigger setting it, the gun fires when this trigger system is released.
This bypasses the defensive mechanism of the human body to flinch.
Dead Mules and other devices are added to butt stocks.
Some are just weight, some have Mercury, which go "opposite" of how moved to lessen felt recoil.
Same principle in Mercury Boxes installed in Police Cars and Traveling Sales Reps cars to aid in Suspension when taking corners hard, or on twisty , windy roads. Mercury "shifts" to opposite side to stabilize.
A Regular Stock can be Professionally cut, and a Recoil System of various types that actually move upon firing of a shotgun, reduces the Recoil Curve therefore lessening recoil.
Custom wood stocks , some of really really nice wood, are also available.
When this is done, the gun fit is further tweaked, with not only LOP, also cast on, cast off, and pitch.
Looking at one of these, one will see the stock actually will "insert" into the other part of stock. Some even have the area where face goes (comb) move as well.
Many of the top shooters, even those with a half a million rounds fired do not have beads on custom guns.
The shooter's eyes are the "rear sight" if you will. Shotguns are pointed - not aimed.
Gun fit is the key.
If after so many years of high round counts the human body starts protecting itself, Reduce Recoil methods are employed.
These shooters learned how to shoot with guns that fit, with correct basic fundamentals, repeated thousands and thousands of times.
Many have hundreds of thousands of rounds fired, with a gun that fits, using correct basic fundamentals.
If I can see it - I can fell it - anon
How true! The shotgunner is one with a shotgun.
Every imaginable presentation can be shot!
Not just standing up either, real shotgunner are NOT programmed shooters.
They can shoot kneeling, squatting, on the move, prone, on their backs, shooting up and over their heads.
I am not kidding, I have seen 80 year old men and women Skeet and Trap Shooters on the ground and shoot moving targets. Shoot on the move, and other presentations.
Serious Use - yes there are cases where a shotgunner of what I speak has defended and stopped a threat using a bone stock shotgun, even a competition shotgun.
They are NOT restricted in how a shotgun can be used with the new recoil reducing design stocks.
The ability to quickly mount gun to face is so ingrained in real shotgunners, well...
Some folks own shotguns and have more pictures of their shotgun than round fired through them.
We have always had Reduced Recoil devices, just some don't know about the original context of the word, of them, and the real reasons why they come to be, and of the persons that use them.
Steve
