Most felt recoil

I make sure I wear at least one padded shooting glove, when I shoot full power 454 Casull loads in my 7.5 inch Super Redhawk.

One shot with the 500 S&W pistol, was enough for me.
 
There I was, mindin' my own business,,,

There I was, mindin' my own business,,,
Popping away with my 6" 629.

A gentleman heard the big boom and came to watch,,,
We chatted and I offered him a cylinder through Jezebel.

He fired the six rounds and thanked me,,,
Then he opened a case and offered me a cylinder of his gun.

2.5" Ruger Alaskan in .454 Casull,,,
I only got two rounds off before I quit,,,
It might be less painful to just let a bear eat me. :o

Way too much gun for my skinny little wrists.

Aarond

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ALSO A Redhawk 44 mag. Not only hurt but the grips cut the web of your hand.

Super Redhawk in 454 right there too
 
Another impressive gun I had the chance to fire was a .50 desert Eagle pistol. This gun has absolutely the least amount of recoil you would expect from such a cartridge/gun combination. But the concussion!

I fired this under a covered firing line, with partitions between firing points. Unexpected mild recoil, but my pants legs flapped from the blast!

Bob Wright
 
I'm surprised to hear about the painful 7-1/2" Super Redhawk in 454. Full house loads in mine don't bother me that much. The grip doesn't fit me all that well so I feel a bit of discomfort but it's not a real concern.

A Contender with the lightweight 10" octagon barrel in 44 magnum will have most shooters running away in tears, especially with the old thumb buster grips. THAT is ugly.

Something I learned while getting beaten up by my 460 Encore is DO NOT REST hard kicking handguns. That will make your life VERY unpleasant. When rested there is more resistance to rearward movement but no resistance at all to flipping upwards. That stinkin Encore tried to tear my hands off the ends of my arms. Brutal. Stand up and shoot that thing from your hind legs. Your arms and upper body will absorb some of the recoil. It's far better for your whole body to get rocked than having all that force ripping your wrists backwards.
 
When you don't know what you are shooting...

My brother was letting me shoot his Super Blackhawk 44 mag using ammo he had loaded. I was shooting mild loads from a ridge between two gullies, really enjoying it. He slipped in a max load without my knowing it, and it very nearly knocked me into the gully behind me.
 
I don't like small .357's. My Ruger sp101, 2" barrel was great with .38's but put some warm .357's in it and after a couple of cylinders the hand slap grows tiresome and annoying very quickly, freakin thing stings. Yep, medium framed no less than 4" barrels to full size framed revolvers in .357 and up for me in the future.
I can only imagine how a .454 out of a short barrel must get your attn.
 
3.5" turkey loads from a 7.5 lb 12 ga pump is the worst. Some hot loaded 45-70's from a Marlin lever gun would be close. I've fired 454, 375 mag and 416 Rigby and didn't find them nearly as bad.
 
"...My buddy carries it when in Grizzly territory..." He really think it'll help? He'll never be fast enough if Yogi is PO'd and coming from less than 100 yards. Yogi can cover 100 yards in less than 6 seconds.
Anyway, felt recoil is subjective. Firearm weight, grips, design and the bullet weight and cartridge all matter.
"...very nearly knocked me..." It was a 12 gauge 3" mag for me. Mind you, the 70 grains of BP out of a 6 lb. Trapdoor Carbine thumped some too. No internet then.
 
He really think it'll help? He'll never be fast enough if Yogi is PO'd and coming from less than 100 yards. Yogi can cover 100 yards in less than 6 seconds.
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"Does he really think it'll help?"
Put yourself in the same situation, and the scenario is very simple, only two answers and you choose one of them. Bear attack and you have a short-barreled massive big bore handgun... or you have nothing but your blood curdling screams.

I don't think he's looking for a miracle cloak of "get out of Bear free card" here, he's just adding a tool. Not to mention that a bear running full clip for 6 seconds from 100 yards is possible, but so is a bear electing to do any of a hundred thousand other things which may or may not include biting your torso right out of the middle of your being before you've even drawn the handgun. If the bear chooses to stand up and bellow at you, it doesn't matter how fast he can run, he's offering up a center-mass shot. Taking the shot is probably better than trying to convince the bear in English that you'll just give him indigestion.
 
.460 or .500 from either of the 8-3/8" Smith & Wesson X-frames is heavy and inspiring but in my opinion, it's -so- much more enjoyable and far less painful than shooting heavy stuff from much smaller revolvers. But I will also add that I've never shot some of the CRAZY heavy bullet loads that some of the small boutique makers have crafted for them, like Garrett or any of the massive cast bullet loads. But my point is clear -- IMO, full-bore .44 Magnum from a 4-5/8" Ruger Blackhawk is, IMO, far more obnoxious and uncomfortable and utterly not enjoyable than any .460 or .500 Magnum I've ever sent from an X-frame S&W.

I am glad to see that one of my most hated experiences has been posted up already, reaffirming my position: the 10-inch .44 Magnum Contender rig. I bought one of these barrels and shot it on THREE occasions over the 7 years that I owne it and I just sold that barrel a couple weeks back because I knew, KNEW that I had zero desire to ever shoot it again so keeping it was silly.

Shot a three-inch Model 29 with original magna grips back in the late 80s when I was in high school offered up by a gentleman with what he called "my heavy handloads." It was horrendous, and left checkering imprints on my right hand, but I wonder how time has altered my perception of how bad it was.

Most felt recoil I've ever had in a long arm was a light Savage bolt gun with a whippy barrel in 7mm Rem Mag, but then that was eclipsed by four rounds of .500 S&W Mag from a T/C Encore rifle. Most any 12ga slug is an awful experience also, but that .500 Mag was the worst I can remember.
 
I had been a black powder shooter for quite a while but I got tired of smelling like rotten eggs and the clean up so I switched to a modern revolver. Taurus model 66 with a 6 inch barrel. Grabbed two boxes of 357mag loads and went to the range. I thought ok pretty good push back and didn't think anymore about it. Next day though my shoulder and wrist were sore...

Gary
 
I got a great deal on a single-action 44 magnum. The trigger was (is) great and I didn't really pay attention to the grips being more narrow across the back than the ones on my Ruger. Shooting 44 specials was fun. Shooting 44 magnums was like getting hit on the hand with a stick every time. About 30 minutes later, after shooting other guns, I decided that the recoil couldn't have been as bad as it seemed. So I loaded up another six... and yeah, it was that bad.
 
S&W 360 (x1) and 340 (x2), shooting full-power .357 Mag ammo.

Once upon a time, I read a post by an owner who described it thusly:
Find a late 60s/early 70s, full sized GM sedan. Open the driver's door and place your hand in the door jamb. Now, slam the door on your hand, as hard as you can. Then do it again.

Not so far from the truth.

Yep, I owned three of those little devils at different times. Each time I sold one, sooner or later I'd think, "Naw, it wasn't really that bad" and buy another.

Actually, yeah, it is that bad...which is why I keep selling them.
Apparently, I'm a slow learner. :D
Been about six years since I sold the last one, and my wrist still hurts.

But would you believe that I'm looking at them again? :rolleyes:
 
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