most painful rifle you've shot?

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My H&R in .500 S&W. It lets you know your still alive. Now that I think about it I would recomend you coffee drinkers out there to try a 45-110. Go out first thing in the morning and pop off 1 round and you'll never drink coffee again. If you think folgers is a real eye opener you'll love the 45-110.
 
A brand new, never been fired, 1886 Winchester in 45-70BP. The rifle was in a collection at a small museum and I bought it at auction. Thought it was a reproduction until after I shot it and a curator from the museum called and said "DO NOT SHOOT THAT RIFLE IT IS AN ORIGINAL,NEVER FIRED RIFLE!" manufactured in 1888. It was too late, I had already fired it! Talk about painful...tens of thousands of dollars flying away!
 
The summer I turned 18 I shot a Winchester Model 70 in 375 H&H. I was visiting some family friends outside of Anchorage. My host had a “walking around rifle” that he had modified from a standard Model 70 to very close to “featherweight” specs. It probably weighted 7 ½ pounds, all up. Barrel cut to 20 inches and turned down to a very slim profile. The stock was slimmed down quite a bit, with a couple of reinforced holes bored in the butt under a recoil pad about a ¼” thick. Aperture rear sight with a gold bead.

The first 20 rounds or so were cast bullet practice loads at just over the speed of sound (approximately 250gr at 1200fps) that hit to the same POA as regular loads. After doing pretty well with these and feeling cocky, I was ready for some “real” loads. After ignoring the warnings from my host that I may not enjoy shooting full power loads. I loaded up three Silvertips. Sighting in on the practice plate at about 30 yards I let fly. OUCH! I wasn’t going to let anyone know that I wasn’t man enough to handle a real rifle, so I fired the other two. I did pretty good (I thought) at hiding the pain, but everyone figured it out when I couldn’t raise my elbow up to shoulder high that evening and I had a bruise the size of my palm the next morning.

It hurt a whole lot more than the time I touched off both triggers on a 20 gauge double when I was 14.
 
Man... that was vicious... My friend did the same thing to me at the range once. I was not into shotguns, and so I knew very little about them; I have been shooting skeets with small ball-bearing shotgun shells, and my friend exchanged one of the shells with a 4-inch rifled slug shell, and told me to try it because it kicks just like the ball-bearing shells. BANG!!! And my god... I was rocked backwards because I held the gun loosely, and it loosened one of my teeth... And I wasn't very happy. :cuss:
 
Personally my dad's 375 H&H elk gun is probably the biggest thumper i've shot. I use a 300 Weatherby Mag (amazing how you don't feel it when shooting at an animal :p ). We got him a Caldwell lead sled for Christmas to make sighting them in and testing loads less brain rattling :)
An article I saw in Guns & Ammo waaaay back (15 years or so) had an author shooting either a 6 or 8 gauge SxS shotgun, i forget which. In the cover shot both feet were off the ground, on his way back towards mother earth and he had a painful wincing expression on his face. I believe this was brass cased ammo, not regular shotgun hulls. Not sure if that was one barrel or both that he touched off.
I never shot it, but my dad had a derringer in .357 magnum. He shot it once. Broke every blood vessel in his hand, haha. He said it didn't really recoil, just felt like it blew up. He sold it the next day.
 
single barrel shot gun with a 3in mag and a missing recoil pad. it hurt.
 
While it is not exactly a rifle the kickingest son of a gun I ever shot was my first riffled slug shotgun. It was a Mossberg 500 with a short rifle sighted smooth bore barrel. This was before 3" shells, thank God, but the regular ones would flat out jar your teeth. After about the third practice shot you took you didn't really care where that fourth shot went. I filled the stock bolt hole with #2 shot and this helped tame it some. When the cantilevered full riffled barrels came out I bought one and the added weight and the added length made it if not a joy to shoot at least bearable.
RJ
 
My worst KICK from a rifle was from a caliber not metioned here yet. I had a Beowulf .50 cal. upper mounted on an RRA AR15, A2 type lower with the gridded plastic butt pad, and a t-shirt. After 16 rounds my shoulder was very purple and bruised. I was flinching so bad by the last mag, I just quit shooting it. It was a BEAST!!
 
"When I was a kid my dad handed me a .303 British jungle carbine and told me it kicked like a .22. I still don't know why he did that!"
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My dad did the same thing to my sister. He handed her one of those feather-weight 30-06s to hunt with. When she asked if it kicked or not, he sadi "Naw, that thing don't kick."

She killed the deer AND her shoulder that day. She held it just like her competition .22, barely to the shoulder and focusing on the sights.
 
Aww...that's terrible!

(At least she got the deer though. :))

Reminds me, I handed my buddy an SKS. His first shot went off-black (so about 5" from center) from 50ft. His explanation was that he didn't know what to expect, so he flinched—most of his time on rifle is with a Marlin 1894C. :rolleyes:

His following shots spiraled into the center, it was pretty cool.
 
Even better is when we hand a gun to my dad's friend. This poor guy just doesn't know how to hold onto the gun. It would help if he was clean or sober, sure, but I digress.

Once he asked my father, while they were in the truck, to hand him the .22, he saw a rabbit he wanted for dinner (Yep, he lives in the sticks and thinks he's an indian). My dad, jokingly, handed him the .45 caliber black powder. He touched it off, and the scope sliced his forehead open pretty badly.

Not the first time that's happened, and certainly not the last. In fact, I handed him the .308 Remington ADL (loaded with SA surplus) and he sliced his forehead up again. He doesn't know how to hold it up to his shoulder, I guess. Or maybe it's the booze. Booze and guns don't mix.
 
600 Nitro Express, not once but twice.

Even in a 17 1/2 lb falling block rifle you know you are shooting something, mind you a rifle like that ignores any flinch.

At £15 a pop you have an excuse for not shooting many rounds.
 
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