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Am trying to determine when Pachmayr first introduced the Decelerator recoil pad for rifles.
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Been a while....my guess would be late 1970s early 1980s.
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I am not sure at all but I always bought the Deluxe Ventilated Pachmyer pads up until the late 80' early 90's. Then I switched to Decelerators and haven't looked back.
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I am almost sure that I had them on my skeet gun when I started shooting registered in 1990 so it would have been before that
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I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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I believe it was around 1981 or '82 but it might have been a couple of years later. I preferred the standard Old English pad, to begin with, as early decelerators didn't grind real well. I think they changed the composition a little and by the late eighties, they were much better to work with. GD
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Thanks to all that replied to my original post.
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I believe that I have solved the puzzle. U.S. patent number 4,956,932 granted on September 18, 1990. Invention credited to Carl J. CUPP.
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I believe that I have solved the puzzle. U.S. patent number 4,956,932 granted on September 18, 1990. Invention credited to Carl J. CUPP. That sounds more like it..^^^
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I bet you were losing sleep.over that Laurence
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Wow, I would have guessed lots earlier. Good on you for doing the research.
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When I first started gunsmithing in 1979 or so, the "in pad was the # 325 Ventilated White line. If I remember right, the Decellerator Pad came out in the early to mid 80's and the White Line Spacer was a thing of the past as a replacement pad. It seemed that the Monte Carlo stock style fell out of favor around the same time.
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I have a M98 (now in 30-06) in a Monte Carlo stock with the white-line, that came with a remote cabin I purchased in '76 or so. It weighs about 11 lbs, so I don't need no stinkin' Decelerator on that one. All my other rifles have D's tho, except the 725 in (rebarreled) 260. Don't need a D on that one either.
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