Worst Kick Ever Felt!!!!

I used to have an Ithaca/SKB SxS double twelve gauge single trigger shotgun and occasionally, especially with 1+1/4 ounce high brass ammo, it would double on me. That was painful! I even bruised my trigger finger on the gun's trigger guard.

Later, I had the opportunity to shoot a Winchester Model 70 in .458 Magnum, it weren't nothing in comparison.
 
A friend was going to Africa so went to the range to sight in his .458 Winchester Ruger 77. He spent the whole day at the bench. The next day at work he couldn't lift his arm. His shoulder was black down his side to his waist and down to his wrist. Brutal!
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Every gun kick is AT LEAST doubled when shooting from sandbags. It may be the same recoil, but what you absorb is dramatically different from just standing and firing. This includes handguns.
 
recently I pulled the old 300 weatherby out of the safe and shot a few times and did pretty well though my shoulder was still bruised after 5 or 6 shots. the next day I went coyote hunting and after a fruitless morning we pulled out "ole smelly"(enfield SMLE) and shot a few rounds...I forgot that I had already bruised my shoulder from the day before...that wasn't fun shooting a gun with a metal butt plate :D
 
I can't remember exactly what the rifle was, but an old 45-70 with a metal butt plate. At 5'5 and about 115 pounds at the time once enough. My brother looked highly entertained watching though lol.
 
My New Savage 338 WINMAG

Haven't fired it yet... I just got it and I'm going to the range tomorrow... I'm sure it will be the worst ever!!! :D
 
I had an old 10 gauge double up on me one day.........had gloves on, hit both triggers at the same time on accident shooting at a duck, hurt like hell, I was about 15 and 130 pounds.
 
From my then (now ex)wife when she caught me with my big chested girlfriend.:eek:

Or maybe that time when my brother tricked me into peeing on that electric fence.
 
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i have had a few surprises, a 12 ga double with both barrels and a metal butt plate. my 45/70 rifles, 300 and 7 mag rifles are stout. i think the most unplesant recoil is from my 357 snubbies. i have fired 44 mags, 460 and 500 mags but i really don't like snub nosed 357's recoil.
 
when I was nine or 10 I shot a 12 ga. and knocked me on my butt and I dropped the gun. That was my worst pound for pound kick.
 
2 Bore single shot Muzzle loader rifle.

270 grains of coarse Black Powder (larger than FG) and a 3500 gr lead bullet:eek:

I fired it twice! made $600 dollars on the first shot and $1000 on the second, because no one believed I would shoot it the first time and after watching me spin around and disappear in a cloud of BP smoke, no one figured I would be willing to fire it a second time:D

Kind of like getting shoved by a 3 ton truck, not a sharp and quick recoil, but it was a bit fun trying to hang onto 22 pounds of rifle that was doing it's best to twist out of my hands.

After that recoil didn't seem to be that much of a problem....you don't want to hear what the significant other had to say about it.......:cool:
 
T/C Hawken

Had a .50 when I was 20 something. Beat myself to death at the bench and yes..prone. It was actually an easy shooter from standing.
I loaded a big conical 350 grn, and 110 grns. of Pyrodex. From the bench or god forbid prone that would put the hurt on ya.
 
Just sold my Marlin 1895G, Guide gun in 18 1/2"- 45-70. Hated to see it go! I bought a Browning B78 45-70 with a metal butt plate to replace it. You figure it out.
 
I had a Ruger M77 MkII lightweight rifle in 7mm Rem Mag. It weighed about 5 to 6 pounds. Super lightweight synthetic aftermarket stock, pencil thin 18" barrel, and full-on Double Tap hunting ammo while standing with no support.

My father-in-law still laughs uncontrollably when he tells people about me shooting it for the first time...
 
.458 Winchester Magnum,,,

(I posted this back in Sept of last year)

Instead of hitting my watering hole after work,,,
I decided to hit my range and turn some money into noise.

I was popping away with my Beretta NEOS when this gentleman drove up,,,
We waved as he walked to the 200 yard range with a rifle case,,,
A few minutes later I heard this BOOM!

Nothing blew up but man was that one loud rifle,,,
He fired it twice more, stopped for a smoke, and to go look at his target.

I went over to say hello,,,
He offered me a shot at his rifle,,,
I had never fired a .458 Winchester Mag before.

Da-Yum!
That thing kicks!

Aarond

P.S. I've since fired a .375 H&H Magnum,,,
Maybe it was the different stock or the recoil pad,,,
But that rifle had the most painful recoil I've ever experienced.

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