Patent ID: 6976333

Claim:
An accessory for reducing the kick felt by a shooter when a firearm is discharged, said accessory comprising: a pad, a rigid plate, and a vibration decay pattern modifier; said pad and said decay pattern modifier both being fabricated from an elastomeric material; said pad having therein an aperture opening onto a face of the pad; said plate being assembled in face-to-face relationship with that face of the pad onto which the aperture in the pad opens; the decay pattern modifier being disposed in the aperture in the elastomeric pad; there being a space between an end of the vibration decay pattern modifier and a complementary end of the aperture in which the decay pattern modifier is disposed; and the decay pattern modifier having an element with the capability of so oscillating into the space in the aperture as to reduce the amplitude of vibrations transmitted to the recoil pad and the duration of those vibrations.