Slip on pads

[Hilltop]

Any recommendations for a quality slip in pad. Need to increase lop by 1/2” or a bit more.
Thanks
Cory

[Silvers]

Cory, I've tried various slip on pads over the years and all of them felt bulky, rubbed against often brittle vintage stock varnish, and would more/less catch when shouldering the gun. If only 1/2" or less additional LOP is needed I suggest getting a spacer and new pad fitted. Easily done using one of many modern fitting jigs without affecting the stock finish while the pad and spacer are off the gun. New mounting holes are drilled in the pad, spacer and gun butt, that don't impinge on the original buttplate mounting holes. Then if sooner or later you want to move an otherwise original Fox, the pad and spacer are removed and easily replaced with the original buttplate.

One caveat: virtually all AH Fox guns made with a hard rubber buttplate have a slightly concave butt surface, and the pad or spacer + pad must be ground or bent convex to match up with that radius. A good pad man knows how to do that. If anyone is ever planning to replace with the original hard rubber buttplate as I described here, you must resist allowing the pad fitter to sand the butt straight as is commonly done as an expedient. frank

[Fin2Feather]

Frank's suggestions are good ones. But regarding slip on pads, I still think the old Pachmayr rubber pads are as good as any. To me they're less bulky than some of the leather lace-on or velcro pads. Truth be told I've only ever used one a few times; it was on a Fox Model B that belonged to my late father-in-law. I still have a couple of them laying around. I guess they're still available? Not the classiest maybe, but they've done the job for many years. They can discolor your stock if left on long term however.

[Researcher]

I have a drawer full.

Galco pads in different sizes across the back for use on various guns I don't shoot all that often. Middle left the RedHead lace-on I've used on "Meat-in-the-Pot" for sixty years --

center the Pachmayr slip-on I use on my 12-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth Ejector Skeet & Upland Game Gun. Some of the others were on guns when I bought them.

[Hilltop]

Thanks so much! So I found an old lace on pad that was on my grandmas rem 721 257 Roberts, it’s not perfect but will serve the purpose for now. I also ordered a replacement pad from Galzan…. I’m afraid it’s gonna be huge and maybe too big but we will see. I also got a spacer and looked up some advice on pad fitting on the forum. I’m a rancher so my fixing skills usually involve cussing and getting a bigger hammer but I guess I’ll give it a shot. Thanks again.
Cory

[Sporrns]

Duplicate post.

[Sporrns]

Many years ago I bought a Browning Citori 20 ga. straight grip 28" Invector choke from a walk-in at our local firehouse gun show for an obscenely low price. He had had the stock cut down to c. 13 1/2" so his wife could shoot skeet with it and she decided she wanted to move up to a 12 ga. in the identical gun for SC. It was fitted with the universally loathed Pachmayer white line pad which suited her perfectly. I thought about most of the previously discussed options in this thread and decided to simply use a GALCO slip on pad with the Velcro "tongue" flap closure slid right over the existing Pachy pad. It extended the LOP perfectly for me and I have used it ever since to great effect. I am a right-handed shooter, so the Velcro "tongue" closure on the right side of the pad doesn't bother me; lefties might sense a different effect when mounting and cheeking the stock. Kevin