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

A Taurus 905 revolver in 9mm. First time I fired it didn't have a tight enough hold and the hammer bit me. Had to put it away for a couple weeks until I healed and bought a little larger grip:eek:
 
My CZ-82 surprised the hell out of me. All the reading I'd done here makes someone think that the 9mm Mak round is anemic and weak. I figured a large, all steel gun would soak up recoil no problem.

Mine is like shooting a .40 cal Glock.

Also, my Walther PPK/s is extremely snappy for a heavy stainless gun firing a weak .380 round. The Magtech Guardian gold +p rounds are pretty punishing.
 
It's been about 35 years ago, but when my Dad let me shoot his Ruger Blackhawk in .30 Carbine, it kicked hard and scared the heck out of me. :)
 
Wow that brings back memories. A buddy had a Blackhawk in .30 carbine and talked me into loading up some really hot loads for it. First round he fired at the range (outdoor) immediately had everyone stopped and looking down at us trying to figure out what the heck we were shooting. VERY LOUD.
 
NAA in .32naa. Gave me a bright red hand. I like shooting my 44mag with full power loads better.
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I had the same experience with a Kel-Tec P3-AT (.380). Gawd awful unpleasant for me to shoot; I prefer 240 grain .44 Mag out of my 5.5" Redhawk. The gun is so tiny that I really couldn't get a good grip on it, I always felt like it was going to fly out of my hand and bean me between the eyes. Couldn't hit crap with it either.

Another was my dad's 20" 12 gauge coach gun with it's rock hard plastic butt plate. Aka, the "meat tenderizer" :p. After 6 shells or so I switched to shooting from the hip, which proved to be just as accurate and far less painful.

Pleasant surprises:

My S&W 642, even with .38 +P. Sure, the recoil is stout, but not near as bad as I had built it up in my mind to be.

Ruger Redhawk 5.5" 44 Mag. Recoil is certainly heavy, but it isn't painful. Also not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

Finnish M39 Service Rifle, 7.62 x 54r. I always hear about how brutal the recoil is in Mosins and their derivatives, but I find this gun to be relatively pleasant to shoot. Granted, the carbines are probably a different story!
 
Throw out the self loads that are not loaded for the intent of the gun, and the people who choose factory + P loads to use in light (poly, alloy) frames that were never intended for hotter loads. If you want hot loads, buy the right frame. A stronger frame = steel. Everything else is a TRADE OFF, PERIOD!
 
125gr .357mag from my Dan Wesson with the snub barrel. This was the first time I'd shot 125gr and I was expecting them to be softer than the 158gr stuff I'd been shooting before. Wow! I was wrong there....
 
I bought my first handgun, a Kahr P40, the day I turned 21. I had zero handgun experience prior to my purchase of this gun. That little thing had some BANG to it, haha, surprised me.
 
How about something different?

Some years ago, I purchased a barrel and cylinder and converted a 4-inch .357 Model 28 into a 6-1/2" .45 ACP Model 25. Straight forward swap, then hand-time the chambers. On range day, I loaded up several types of .45 ACP and the 3 sets of half-moon clips I had. I also brought along my Colt Series 70 1911 for comparison. The first round I fired gave me an unexpected kick.

Actually, it was the lack of a kick that concerned me. I'd fired a 185gr Match FMJ/SWC. I thought it was a squib load. Checked barrel, all clear. Check target. Yup, a neat round hole at about 5'oclock in the 8 ring. Along the way i discovered the mass of that big N-Frame soaked up most of the .45's recoil. As a result, I can shoot the wheelgun almost 1/3rd faster than the Auto.
 
A Thompson Contender in .41 Rem Mag. 14" bull barrel surprised me when I first shot it. All of the energy seems to be turned into recoil that was sent into my hand and the firearm's barrel barely rose a couple of degrees. The shape of the grips and the geometry of the gun made the recoil a bear. It was like the opposite of shooting a .45 Colt Single Action Army (cowboy gun) which rolls up in your hands so the recoil feels like nothing.
 
my charter arms 44special bulldog owwwch. kicks harder and than a 44mag and hurts to at only 19 ounces and such a small grip its not hard to imagine why:eek:
 
.45 LC Derringer? Was kinda expecting it due to the fact I can only fit 2 fingers on it... and I have Smallish hands!

I didn't mind it terribly, but that first shot was like "Whoa!" I was aimed at about a 45 degree angel after it.

Its fun handing it to some one with a .410 slug. watching them go pale and asking the obvious question "that out of this little thing?!"
 
Looking for pain?

I shoot a guys S&W "Airlite .357" not airweight.

I shoot some 158g +Ps and it hurt my hand pretty well. I ran out of full power .357s, but he had some milder .357s, but those didn't hurt much more.

I really wanted to shoot some Rem's .357 125g's but I shoot them up. That would have really hurt.:D
 
The OP didn't specify if we shot the thing or not.

In Viet Nam, . . . a buddy's mom sent him a .357 magnum in a cake, . . . in a plastic bag. Cut the cake, . . . get the gun. Ammo came in cake # 2.

It was a double barreled derringer.

Nahhhhh, . . . didn't shoot it, . . . wouldn't shoot it, . . . it'd be my prime / pristene safe queen if it belonged to me.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
A box of 240 gr LSWCs from Winchester out of my Ruger Redhawk were the most unpleasant factory loads I've ever shot in .44 mag. Guess I was thinking a bullet like that would be loaded atop a target load, but I believe it was intended for either grizzly bears or dinosaurs.;)
 
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