Patent ID: 7152356
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: F41C

Abstract:
1. An accessory for reducing the kick experienced by the shooter when a firearm is discharged: the accessory comprising a butt plate and a resiliently compressible, kick-reducing pad which is immovable relative to the butt plate; the pad having an aperture with an opening onto a face of the pad and a peripheral ledge extending around the face of the pad; the butt plate having a protruding, integral, complementary, peripheral rim seated on the ledge of the kick-reducing pad; and the plate being so disposed in direct face-to-face contact with the kick-reducing pad by the seating of the butt plate rim on the ledge of the kick reducing pad as to seal the opening of the aperture in the kick-reducing pad and form from the aperture a sealed, isolated pocket that can collapse when the firearm is discharged to additionally reduce the kick felt by the shooter upon the discharge of the firearm.