"Kicked" Like It Wasn't Supposed To??

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Brian Pfleuger

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What handgun have you fired that had a severe recoil that didn't seem to match your expectations?

I don't mean that 2 1/2 inch barreled 44mag, you should have expected that one.

I mean the one that you pulled the trigger and thought "Damn! I didn't see that coming!"

Oh, and not because you blew it up with a double load or something either.;):D
 
.38+p in an Airweight. I'd fired .38 in larger revolvers before and I wasn't expecting the weight of the pistol to make THAT much difference. I suppose it was probably the combination of muzzle blast (indoor range) and recoil that startled me.

My other instance of this was with a 12ga shotgun. I unknowingly switched from light target shells to turkey shells mid-magazine. boom, boom, BOOM! :eek:
 
my seecamp the first time I shot Fiocchi's 60gr SJHPs in it.I shot a mag ful an realized the back of my trigger finger was getting abused by the front of the trigger guard.I figured out why the first time I chronoed them they're going 200fps faster than silvertips,golddots or hydro-shoks
 
First time I fired 125gr. magnum in my S & W Model 27. That gun's a tank and I'd assumed it could handle the hottest round without difficulty. In fact, the gun did fine. But, those enormous wooden target grips just destroyed my shooting hand.
 
When I was 14. Shooting a RG .38 that my dad found in my grandad's stuff after he passed away. There had been a Crown Royal bag full of mixed .38 ammo with the gun. Dad would hand me 6 bullets out of the bag at a time. One was a +P. It kicked much harder than the SWC and LRN ammo I had been shooting. In fact it broke the pin that held the barrel in the gun.
 
.38+p in an Airweight.

Specifically, Cor Bon's 110gr +p with the Sierra HP bullet. After firing five, I swore on the spot I would never do that again. That ammo is now assigned to my 686+.

Cordially, Jack
 
147 grain 9mm Parabellum Winchester defense loads in a Keltec PF9. Not only was the recoil startlingly high but they also failed to feed.(They feed fine when hand racking the slide but when fired the gun cycles without picking up the next round) Whether 147grain 9mms are a good idea can still be debated but I only had to fire 3 to know that it is the wrong fodder for my PF9. 115 grain loads are MUCH more managable.
 
I had always read the oft-repeated statements about large frame Ruger .45's "equalling the .44Mag at less pressure with less recoil" and believed it until I shot one. It's nonsense.
 
Ruger GP-100 4"(?) barrel... .357 Mag.

My brother thought it would be funny to mix his hottest load (a load he vowed to never use again), with his plinking load.

It was a 600 fps load (that has about 1/16" of muzzle 'rise'), followed by an 1,800 fps load. Good times....

The hot load was safe, but extremely violent. The concussion was more punishing than anything else; and was the reason for its retirement.

-OR-

Browning BDA .380 with my Dad's over-maximum 90gr XTP loads. Fixed barrel + an extra 2 grains of Titegroup = bruised bones in the web of my hand.

It was several years later, that I found out how ridiculous the load was. At the time, I just knew it hurt like hell. (The idiot still loads it..)
 
Sleeved 45-70,,,

A buddy of mine has (had?) a repro trap-door 45-70,,,
He had a sleeve made for it to shoot .22 lr.

I've shot the rifle before,,,
It's weird hefting that huge iron and hearing a tiny pop.

He handed it to me right when we got to the range,,,
He had removed the sleeve and loaded a 45-70 round in it.

Nuff said?

Aarond
 
It had been years since I had fired a .357 mag. I bought an 8" Trooper MKIII recently and all the store had was some 158gr JSP. When I was shooting .357 regularly I never used 158gr. I thought the 8" barrel would tame the recoil a little...... not so you'd notice. After a few cylinders full it wasn't so bad but it definitely surprised me on the first one.
 
UMC 125gr JSPs out of a 6" Highway Patrolman. In all honesty, though, I think it had little to do with actual recoil and more to do with the freaking enormous muzzle blast. The concussion smacked me in the face every time I pulled the trigger.

That was my first experience with .357 Magnum and it turned off on the caliber for a long time. Eventually, though, I gave the caliber a second chance and found that my original encounter with it was not even close to the norm.
 
Taurus M445 .44 Special Snubby with Winchester factory 240grn LRN. Between the smallish grips and the hellacious muzzle rise, the revolver became downright unpleasant after about 10 rounds, a 50 round box had a bad habit of abrading the skin right off the web of my shooting hand. I fired exactly four rounds of Cor-Bon 165grn JHP through that gun once and it was enough that I took the fifth round out and put it back in the box. The revolver was traded off soon after.
 
similar story

I shot Fiocchi's 60gr SJHPs in it.I shot a mag ful an realized the back of my trigger finger was getting abused by the front of the trigger guard.I figured out why the first time I chronoed them they're going 200fps faster than silvertips,golddots or hydro-shoks
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I had a similar expirience with my .32 Guardian. It stung my hand more than usual with the fiocchi. Its short narrow grip and overall small size of this gun make it a bear to shoot. It always surprises people who shoot it, especially women. They look at it and say awwwe cute, let me shoot it. Bang........Ouch!
 
A Lew Horton 657 3 in. with the old full power Remington load. Much flame and concussion. You could feel the pressure wave off of that thing. Watched a couple of other guys shoot it without keeping their thumb clear of the cylinder release. It drew blood from those suckers. Somewhere Elmer is laughing his ass off.
 
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