Subjective Recoil

[Spectre]

Which rifles you have fired have "thumped" you most?

.338 Mag
.375
.416 Rem
.416 Rigby
.458
other (please list)

 

[Clark]

The only intolerable recoil I have endured is my 45/70 handi rifle with Trapdoor loads: 405 gr 40 gr IMR4895. 30 gr is ok.

Also, a 30-06 from the prone postion is no fun to target practice.

 

[Gewehr98]

I have an ancient Remington Model 8

In .32 Remington, which, although it doesn't deliver the foot-pounds of the big magnums in the above poll, is sure's hell knows where to concentrate the recoil, even as an autoloader. Crescent-shaped steel buttplates are NOT a wonderful thing, there.

Can't wait to finish restoring my .300 Savage Model 81 and see how beat up I get shooting it!

 

[Stonesheep]

I've shot a .416 Rem and it is a healthy shove; it also weighed like 10 lbs. I've shot a Husqavarna light weight in 30-06 that felt like I'd been whacked with a ballpean hammer.......weight and how a stock are built play a larger role in recoil.

 

[PreserveFreedom]

I've never really had a rifle thump me. If I had to choose a thumper it would be a 12 ga Federal jacketed 3" magnum 1¼ oz slug.

 

[yankytrash]

I plan to let a 458 Socom by Tromix thump me once he gets Corbon to start making shells.

Otherwise, never had a rifle thump me. Plenty of 10 gauge turkey guns have though.

 

[Sisco]

You wanna see someone get thumped? Follow this link
http://www.accuratereloading.com/videos.html
and check out any of the "T-Rex" videos.

 

[mobias]

460 Weatherby is about as high on the ouchmeter as any commercial cartridge. It will kick your shoulder so hard that your ancestors will feel it!

 

[Mike Irwin]

.505 Gibbs was bad.

The worst, though, was a 1 ounce 3 3/4 dram equiv. slug out of an Ithaca Featherweight shotgun.

I saw stars, tears came to my eyes, and I didn't shoot anymore that day.

 

[Southla1]

A Spanish made 10 gauge 3 1/2 inch Magnum double barrel can bring tears to my eyes when firing magnum loads of 00 Buckshot. Thats the bad side, the good side is that the first shot clears all the brush, saplings, briars, small trees, hills, small mountains, etc. out of the way for the second shot at the deer!
I really think its a lot worse than the 460 Wby. Of course I only fired the 460 Wby 3 times in my life and it damn near turned me around but it was more like a push than the WHAP that the 10 gauge delivers.
I have a Rem 700 7MM Mag that I can shoot all day long with factory ammo, or some Nosler Partition 150 grain handloads, and I swear it kicks no more than a light loaded 06. But have some 140 grain Nosler ballistic tips that are loaded to a LOWER velocity than the 150's and they beat the hell out of me.....go figure!

 

[Ben Shepherd]

It all has to due with stock design and gun wheight, assuming you've got the gun held properly. I shot a 7mm savage that litterally picked my front foot up off the ground and gave me a bruise for 2 weeks. I've shot a 20 gauge youth model(very light, very liitle surface area on the buttpad) single shot
3" mag. It kicked harder than a hot handload in my 300 mag.

 

[johnbt]

Sighting in 2 ounces of number 6 shot, a turkey load, in 12 ga. 3" magnum pump with a rotten recoil pad. Maybe it would have been different with a turkey in front of it. I may never know.

John

 

[Spectre]

Drat! Forgot the .460.

I remember going shooting about a year ago. I got my hands on a Benneli somebody had brought, and shot a ton (40 rounds?) of max dram 3" 00 buck through it. My right bicep swelled to twice its normal size! Looked just like Popeye...