Hardest kicking gun you've ever shot?

The most kick I experienced was from a double barreled elephant gun in .458 Winchester Magnum.

The outside barrel was the worst.

mossberg 535 ATS with 3.5 magnum winchester turkey loads, the gun is verry light and it kicks like a mule

and the same gun with a slug barel with a 3' remington buckhammer slug, verry accuret bullet but it does have recoil

Had a 12 guage Rugar Red Label O/U Double Barrel... Man it beat the snot out of me..... Wasn't but about 16 or so but OUCH.....

10 ga. double, old rabbit ears and 30+ in. barrels, iron buttplate, I was 14 and a cousin had it and an old box of #4's. We fired about 4 each and decided to quit. We understood why his uncle gave it to him and still had the original box of shells that came with the gun minus 2 that he apparently fired.

I pulled both triggers on a double barreled 10 guage loaded with 120 grains of Black powder each. Does that count?

Ouchies

I'm a big bore freak, and have shot many, but the one in my collection that hurts me the worst oddly enough is my Browning Sweet 16. That thing gives me bruised and blood blistered shoulders every time!

My 45/70 actually hurts my index finger more than my shoulder, that from slammin into the trigger guard.

By FAR worst recoiling firearm I have is my Magnum Research 500 S&W with 10" bbl that has actually broke my hand. The worst loads are the lighter 350's I also have an uncompensated 460 mag that has about 50% of the recoil of that 500 but then again it's not a single action from MR either...

I would love to own and shoot a 460 Wby Mag next up on the list for big shooters.

Metal butt plates are masochistic.

garcia made the ugly little all steel guns, and my hardest kicking was my savage 210 slug gun. ouch.

OW!

My grandfather (an avid collector) picked me up early one morning for a duck hunting mission with a gleam in his eye and and an evil cackle.
He then gleefully showed me a new gun that he had brought me to replace my trusty 870 12 ga,
It was a beautiful, nickel-plated and marvelously engraved 10-GAUGE double- barrelled, breech-loader! The weapon was supplied with a full case of the hottest GOOSE loads ever conceived by the twisted mind of man.

I was 17 years old at the time and the starting quarterback for my high school football team. Long story short: Shooting this beast was an excruciating experience. After a day in the blinds, I coudn't even RAISE my right arm.
I missed nearly a whole week of football practice. my coach threatened to kill me with that very gun. Fortnately I could function enought by Friday night that we won the game. Coach agreed to postpone the firing squad.

Only other gun that has punked me that badly is the 470 Nitro Express.

I need some Alleve and Ben-Gay just thinking about it! :0

Mike

I did NOT use the piece again!

Shot a friend's 10ga shotgun once - the experience was not very pleasant - kicked like a mule, my head was fuzzy/blurry for some time.

When I came home, I hugged my Mossberg 500 12ga shotgun with a smile.

Father in laws 45-120 Sharpes. No fun.

by far it is my 12 gauge double. barrels were cut to 24", stock shortened and hollowed out, it is by far the best field gun i've had. but my god does that lil thing kick. it weighs only about 6 lbs, so you definitely feel anything you put in it, god forbid magnum loads.

A relative once had a Beretta single shot 20 ga. LIGHT weight, - pretty little gun with an engraved receiver, but HORRIBLE to shoot. With the light weight of the gun, all you needed was 1 or 2 standard/field load shells and you were ready to hand it back! He doesn't own it anymore!

Shot a Greener double rifle in .500 Nitro Express ONCE! Dang thing didn't have a recoil pad on it and when I touched it off, the whole bloody world took a break for about 30 seconds! Nasty beast, what?

Shot a Remington 700 BDL in .458 Win Mag with 500 grain factory ammo the same afternoon and it was pleasant by comparison. My wife even put 5 rounds downrange with the .458 that afternoon and if my friend hadn't been out of ammo, she'd have shot more of it. She wouldn't even go near the Greener though!!!

The hardest kicking gun I ever shot was a Ruger number 1 in 458 Winchester magnum that had been converted to 460 Weatherby. It belonged to a local County deputy. It split the butt stock on the first shot after conversion. I repaired the butt stock with Brownell's AcraGlas and it was still holding after 10+ years.

American Derringer im 44 mag. Both barrels went off at the same time. Recoil pulled it out of my hand.

Bump, even thought I put in early in this post I do now remember the time I was duck hunting by my self (Dad and his buddys were only a 200 yards away) and I had my great grandfarther's L.C. Smith and accidenntally pulled both triggers and Dame......that hurts a 12 year old's shoulder. By the way the duck did drop!

870 Supermag 26" bbl. Factory Ventilated Pad w/ Remington 3.5" 00 Buck.

rifle and handgun

A 7&1/2# Ruger Carbine chambered in .460 Weatherby Magnum. To quote the guy that owned it"it kills out the barrel and maims at the butt" One round was enough for me
Used to own a COP (4 bbl .357). Any .357 round was bad enough then We tried some old Thompson Contender .357 hotshot rounds. You could see that the plastic cover over the shot was almost to the end of the barrel. Lord those things HURT . Don't know why but I was always asked if it could fire all 4 barrels at once

870 Express shooting 3" magnum Turkey loads. 1903 Springfield with a Limbsaver still did a number on my shoulder.

When I was about 12 I pulled the trigger
on my grandpa's 16 gauge.

I was trying to hit a squirrel's nest.

*It was a single barrel shotgun he had ordered back around 1918 from a Sears and Robuck catalog.

Big Boomer said:

I'm a big bore freak, and have shot many, but the one in my collection that hurts me the worst oddly enough is my Browning Sweet 16. That thing gives me bruised and blood blistered shoulders every time!

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Man, that sucks. I shot mine for the first time yesterday, and it had really gentle recoil. I was only shooting birdshot, though.

On the other hand...

halfded said:

H&R single shot 12 gauge got me too. Even with 2 recoil pads, that thing kicked my skinny rear end pretty good!

Cut down the barrel and re-carved the stock into a pistol grip, now that's a good time! It was actually WAY more comfortable to shoot that way and I even hit a couple skeets with it.

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This thing beat my shoulder to shreds. I only managed 18 shots of birdshot out of it before I called it quits. I was having joint problems, and the bruise on my shoulder says I didn't shoulder it in the right place.

And seeing that gun chopped like that... I want to do it to mine; I'd cut the barrel down just after the foreend, though.

Pistol; Freedom Arms .454 Casull
Rifle; H&H .700 Nitro Express
Shotgun; Mossberg 12 GA 3" Magnum 36" Barrel bolt action

I haven't shot a lot of guns in my time, but so far the winner in this category is my 1954 M1 Garand. Those .30-06 cartridges pack a whallop, and the metal butt plate does nuttin' for comfort.

Still, if I had been a G.I. in WWII, I wouldn't have complained about the M1's kick. That gun had stopping power relative to every other standard issue small arm.