Most painful rifle kick you've personally experienced

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Originally Posted by Reloadron View Post
Looking back at my post #108 I am convinced that age and caliber are indirectly proportional. The older you become the smaller the rifle cartridge you are comfortable shooting. Love my 03A3 Remington 30-06 Springfield but it hurts much more than it did 30 years ago.

Ron
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And maybe not. For some of us, advanced age meant getting bigger. And, for some, the more beef behind the butt plate translates to the bigger "the rifle cartridge you are comfortable shooting". Which sometimes, in the interest of regaining my svelte physique of yesteryear, makes me long for the days when my rifles hurt more to shoot. :)
 
Worst kick I ever experienced was one day pigeon hunting with a 12 ga. over/under. I was shooting heavy field loads, 3¼ - 1¼, and one flew almost straight overhead. When I touched it off, I thought I'd broken my collar bone, as it double-fired. The combination of 2½ oz. of shot and the butt of the gun up high on my shoulder/collar bone, made the recoil horrendous in that 7 pound gun. I've shot 416 and 458 magnums from a bench, but it wasn't as bad as that double-fired 12 ga.
 
I have thought a good bit and may have posted a reply somewhere. I would say,right now, I think it was an M14 with duplex loads tow bullets in one cartridge, on auto.
My Weatherby's kick a good bit and several who have shot them cut their eyes and ruined Leupold scope mounts but they didn't hold them exactly right. I pay no attention to those.
I suppose somewhere has a .460 Weatherby or a .458 Magnum or, a big 2 bore, or 4 bore or a Gibbs .500 etc.
I would bet they would be the brusiers. A good many of the .458s and .460s crack the stocks at the wrist.
I would love to find out. Maybe I'll stumble across one for a reasonable price. :)
 
big bang ouch

A few of us helped a club member sight in his 500 nitro double rifle he planned to use on an African safari several years ago. I can still feel my body twisting around at the shot.

As far as "everyday" guns, my Marlin .444 with full power loads (300gr cast) is a bruiser as is my Contender in 358 Bellm (444 necked down to .35). It has a 19 inch barrel and after sighting is, you know that this is a gun for hunting and not target practice.
 
Being on blood thinners because of a previous heart attack, recoil has crept up in m my mind lately. Load development with a .50BMG and a .338LM can play havoc on a shoulder after a days outing. I have taken to using my trap shoulder pad now when shooting these two beasts.
 
I have a synthetic stock NEF .45-70 and it hurts the most. But it's very manageable. Sure after 10 rounds or so you might want to set it down and play with a .22LR for a few minutes. I do have a .30-06 NEF and it doesn't hurt as much but you have to really hold it down. A tight grip isn't good enough, I've got a scar to show that. You've got to hold it down as tight as you can.
 
This thread just won't die! For me it's a three way tie. My 1892 Mousqueton d'artillerie in 8mm Lebel and 8x50R Austrian Mannlicher Stutzen are both murderous little carbines firing full power military rounds. You always know when they go off! But the worst was probably my first Cowboy Match. I borrowed a friends 12 gauge coach gun. It had a single trigger and every fourth or fifth time it discharged both barrels at once. Everybody there had a good laugh and I had a good shoulder bruise. I'll never own a double barrel with a single trigger.
 
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