Whats your biggest/loudest/most powerful rifle?

very loud

A Berthier carbine 3-shot internal magazine in full 8mm. The loudest shoulder weapon I have discharged.
Sold it last week to a fellow in Maryland.
 
Biggest is my .58 P53 Enfield. Loudest now is a 30-06. Loudest I ever had was a 30-378 Weatherby with a muzzle brake. Cartridges back then were 90 dollars per box of 20. That was in 99, God only knows what they are now.
 
I guess my Garand. Not a fan of hard kicking rifles, so my other two are a x39 carbine and AR in 223. I refuse to get anything that leaves a bruise, like the Mosin M38 I had.

Come to think of it the hardest kicking firearm I shot was my Mossberg 500 18" with a slug. OW!
 
On the rifle range it is my EDM Windrunner in 50BMG. The original 'wasp nest' brake managed to amplify both muzzle blast and recoil. It wears a very effective clam shell brake these days, but you don't want to be in line with the ports when it fires.
On the pistol range it would be my repro Harper's Ferry .58 flintlock with 70gr FFg under a patched ball. Fun to shoot, but not to clean.
 
Ruger M77 in .338 Winchester. Recoil was awful till I ditched the old skeleton stock.

At one time I had a braked M1A that was extremely loud and a braked .450 Marlin that was as well.
 
Its not my biggest but it is my loudest and most powerful. NEF Handi Rifle, .30-06.

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I don't own anything all that big anymore, but I sure have made a few.
LOTS of 416s 458s, 460s a 505, and also several 8 bores, five 4 bores and one 2 bore rifle.
 
Other than my .308's which are loud because of their short barrels, I think the loudest thing I shoot is my short barreled .357 mag Blackhawk. My 12 ga. security shotgun has the worst recoil, especially with slugs.
 
Most powerful: .30-06 Springfield

Loudest: .44 Magnum (full house loads) ... might not be louder than the above at the muzzle, but it seems louder to the shooter...

And then there's this whimsical answer (which I don't own) -

PO Ackley's Eargesplittenloudenboomer

Apparently he designed this .224 caliber round to break 5000 fps. Only hit 4600 fps, but it is still an interesting wildcat. And probably loud.
 
Wow I thought I would be very overgunned.
Hardest hitting rifle I own and for that matter ever fired is any one of my 30-06.
I always wanted to try a big nitro or 460 wtby mag. I wish I could afford one of those double rifles.
 
Hmmm

Most powerful in terms of ME is my Ruger #1 Tropical chambered for the .416 Rigby. It is a gun the I have absolutely no use for and which I thoroughly enjoy.
The same could be said for my Winchester M70 in 375 H&H
Loudest? I don't really know.
Hardest kicker? In terms of free recoil, it is the .416. In real, shooting, terms it is a T/C Encore with a fast twist barrel from SSK Industries chambered to shoot this round:
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A BMG bullet seated in a 50-70 case. Subsonic, it comes out of the barrel at about 900 fps. Nevertheless, it is the only rifle that has ever caught me with its scope. The recoil pulse is so fast that I could not get my head out of the way. Glad that I had safety glasses on. I had to go to a LER scope.
Pete
 
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That would be my H&R Handi rifle with a 2-7x32 scope in 45-70 gov't. I call It the deer slayer, The state of Mississippi calls It a primitive weapon. :D
 
M-95 Steyr carbine. 8x56r
25lb. bench gun 30-378 Weatherby 30" barrel
Don't know which is louder, the Steyr definately kicks harder.
 
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