So I haven't shot my .204 Remington 700 in ten years. The recoil pad is horribly soft and sticks to everything, leaving black goo on everything it touches. I know this was a prolem with Remington years ago. I am wondering if anyone recently has had any luck from remington getting a replacement?
Should I just buy a new prefit recoil pad and let it go?

Bob

Try contacting limbsaver, I believe they were the manufacturer of those bad pads.

IYou can overcome the stickiness problem in the short term by liberally coating the recoil pad with cornstarch powder.

To be fair, it's not just Remington. I had a CZ (452 Silhouette) basically melt off, and the pad on my Pedersoli 86/71 is doing the same thing, large chunks are just falling off. Redneck here on the fire remedied the CZ by installing a new pad for me and it turned out great, I need to get ahold of him and send off the Pedersoli stock as well.

I had the Canadian Remington distributor replace one about 2 years ago I think.

That is why when I use rubber it's made by Pachmeyer.

I just went through this exact problem a couple of weeks ago. I emailed Limbsaver and got no response. I ordered a prefit pad from MidwayUSA and it was nearly a perfect fit for my stock. Then about 3 weeks later Limbsaver contacted me and wanted pictures of the damaged pad. It was too late I had already tossed the old pad. They said they were sorry for the delay and were short staffed.

If I were you I would call Limbsaver and try to get a live person in customer service on the phone. They want to stand behind their product.

Limbsaver is great to deal with.

Give them a call later this morning, if I recall correctly they're in Washington so it's PST.

limbsaver replaced mine great cs

Ed

NOT disagreeing. The last one I bought was 1995. All others in 70-90s I never had one with a STICKY r pad.

Don't know ???


Jerry

Pachmayr Decelerator. GD

my remington 7615 is doing that. it stuck was so hard to the carpet in the safe i could barely pull it out. its muzzle down now in there with the gray fuzzy buttpad sticking up.

#2 Philips, if not, bandsaw.

Guys, anyone ?

When did Rem start putting Gooey Pads on ?


Jerry

Limbsaver has replaced 3 old sticky recoil pads for me.

When they first started using limbsaver; late 90’s (ish) and the issue persisted until at least mid 2000’s (ish). It was a problem on quite a few of the first gen ti stocks.

Thank you AK

I still have several 700s and none of them suffer that issue. I'm so glad.
Sorry for anyone else.

Jerry

I have an LVSF with a gooey pad. I contacted Remington a few weeks ago. They have dropped warranty work on everything made prior to the re-structure. They suggested that I contact Limbsaver.

I finally got around to calling Limbsaver two weeks ago. The lady was very nice and told me to email pictures of the pad and info on the rifle to [email protected]. I did and received a response the following day. The email gave the new pad number and advised that they would mail one to me the following week (this past week). I got a tracking number confirmation on Thursday, just as promised.

Pretty good service on a 20 year old product as far as I am concerned…

The original TI stock was common to have a sticky pad. They were the 1st ones I saw with the gooey pad. I replaced a couple pads on those.

Drum roll...... They didn't put gooey pads on....

I too emailed them with no response. I will call them.

Thank you,
Bob

Man, I wished I’d read this earlier. I had to replace a limb saver I I talked on my Winchester Model 70, as it had become sticky as well. I mainly used Pachmyer Decelerator pads in the past and never an issue.

+++

I emailed Limbsaver, they replied 4-5 days later. I called them on day three and very well informed person told me to take a picture of the recoil pad and e-mail it to [email protected].
They replied within 5 hours and said new recoil pad should arrive in 3-5 days.
Excellent product service.
I will order another pad soon for a heavy kicker..

Bob

I had the very same good experience about a year ago.

Just had this issue as well. Called limbsaver. Gave me warranty Department email. Sent pics and in about 3 days had a new airtech pad in my mailbox.

Had the same issue some years back. Dang thing yanked carpet fibers off the floor and became a fuzzy mess. Good thing it was in a closet the wife never visits.

Been a decelerator guy ever since and find them more comfortable to boot.

That said it is good to hear the great Customer Service responses form Sims so I wish them well since they fixed their pads. .

great info!

2 of my M700's have the pad wrapped in saran wrap for this very reason

I'll call or contact limbsaver

thanks

Same deal just got one replaced on my omega muzzleloader , the new one feels softer too.

Same deal a few years ago on my Rem 700 in .204.
I called Rem and they asked for the serial # to verify make, model and year.
Sent a new pad right away....

Just replaced one on my Model 870. After reading this post I sent an email to Limbsaver customer service with a picture of the pad and the serial number. We had a couple of exchanges to be sure of the right pad size, then they sent me a new one. Glad to have that done!

I emailed after reading this thread and adding my post above, Limbsaver already responded asking for pics & model, I'll get that done shortly.

gotta give Limbsaver credit for great customer service!

Poole