Fitting a recoil pad

[gunnery]

I have a remington 1100 ...basic stock and skeet barrel. Ordered
a limbsaver recoil pad which fits terrible. But it appears that
if I remove the extra hard plastic flange in front of the recoil
absorbing material it will fit quite nicely.
My question is: will I mess up the recoil absorbing ability of the pad
if I remove/adjust the hard plastic portion of it??
Thanks for any info.

[bohoki]

i think it requires the hard plastic to mount it to your gun otherwise the screws would just rip through the rubber

[WmWhitfield]

There is a video on youtube about grinding a pad to fit your stock

[tankerman]

You need to purchase a and spacers that are not pre-fit. Brownells sells them.

Fill the old recoil pad screw holes with chopsticks (jam them in and break them off).

Center up the new pad and spacers, and screw it down.
Take blue painter's tape and wrap your stock around the area where the stock and pad come together.

Take the stock with the new pad/spacers over to your bench top disc sander (60 or 80 grit) and start grinding down the excess pad and spacers (if you use multiple spacers, coat them with rubber cement). Ensure you follow the contour of the stock, so the pad follows the lines of the stock.

Don't allow the rub pad to get too hot or it won't sand off evenly.

Once you've got the majority of the excess pad and spacer off (like when you start to knick the first layer of painter's tap), stop using the disc sander and start using flat file. Use the file until the pad and spacer are perfectly fit.

After that, all you need to do is touch up the edges you filed down. Use #000 steel wool.

It'll be a true custom fit.