Big Recoil

Oh yeah they are fun to shoot, I'm kinda weird I like either a big boom and lots of recoil, or very little recoil and fun follow up shoots. When I'm plinking I dont like the middle ground as much..

Only if the first three numbers are 105 or 120!

yes i do but lets not forget the muzzle blast

After shooting a friends .44 mag I realized I was a recoil junkie. After a long, hard road of addiction, I now shoot as many .454 Casulls as I can out of a 2 5/8" snubbie. Love the blast and the BOOM!

Recoil Junkie, you bet, empty the cylinder on this & by # 5 you are thinking WHY did I do that ? I have a buddy who has a .450 Marlin, shot it twice (ONCE).

I just like to shoot. Period. Recoil is part of the fun, to a point. I can shoot plenty through my 44 or Mosin, then go shoot skeet for a while with light 12 ga loads. Much above that and things start getting uncomfortable. Not to mention the fatigue causing accuracy to suffer at some point.

Not long ago after shooting the rifles and throwing clays for my friends, it was my turn to shoot. My shotgun was back in the trunk, so I used another gun from our group. The owner had already loaded it, and inadvertently loaded a 3 in magnum shell among the trap loads. That got my attention....

I love shooting bog bore revolvers. What does it for me is the ability to be able to harness and control all that power in your hand. When we're in the mood I'll take my Ruger .454 SRH and my buddy's 500 S&W magnum out to the range. After about 50 rounds through those beasts a .40 S&W feels more like a .22.

Do I enjoy heavy recoil?



I'd say that's a big yes. The first handgun I ever bought is the S&W 629 Classic in the upper right hand corner. I enjoy shooting anything bigger than a 22LR, they bore the heck out of me, but I get the most fun out of the heavy recoiling guns.

This is my collection so far, not counting wimpy guns like the 10mm and .338 Win Mag:

American Derringer Model 1 .357 Magnum
S&W M&P 340 .357 Magnum
S&W 66 .357 Magnum
S&W 686 .357 Magnum
S&W 629 Mountain Gun .44 Magnum
S&W 629 Classic .44 Magnum
Freedom Arms Model 83 .454 Casull
Wildey Survivor .475 Wildey Magnum
Magnum Research Desert Eagle .50 AE
S&W 500ES .500 S&W Magnum

Ruger #1 .458 Lott
Weatherby Mark V .460 Weatherby Magnum

Now I've just got to decide what to get next.

dad took me on my first squirrel hunt when i was six years old. saw a squirrel way up in a pine tree sittin on a branch. i put the ithica pump 16 guage on my shoulder, dad held the forearm and i pulled the trigger. don't know what happened after that. the recoil durn near drove me into the ground.

never had a problem with recoil since.

murf

At 5.10 and 136lbs the 300wthby mag with a 200gr bullet was more than enough for me.

I cackle every time I put supermags through my Dan Wesson 740. It's so heavy that there isn't much recoil but the blast is so loud people stop and stare and I can feel the stall rattling. (I double up hearing protection so it doesn't seem that loud and I do warn the shooters right next to me before shooting it.) I love that gun.

Wimp here. I admit that I don't enjoy recoil.

I have a S&W M29-2 44 Magnum that has had no more than 100 rounds through it in the last 25 years. I own it mostly because I feel like I should have one.

I have a 460 rifle and full loads leave me so rattled after 1 or 2 shots that I wonder why I have the damn thing. My friend traded me a 458 Ruger #1 and he says it kicks harder than the 460 (he has shot both) meaning so far it only gets 45/70 level loads. My friend likes the big push and lusts after the 460. I should just give it to him.

Recoil has never been an issue with me. It is the noise of the blast. I am noise sensitive.

I love it too. With me it started with my Mosin Nagant. My dream cartridge is a .460 Weatherby Magnum but they are very expensive.

My next adventure (this weekend hopefully) will be putting two 3" 12 gauge shells in my new featherlight russian coach gun (side by side) and pulling both triggers

And if it's rated for 3-1/2" shells I'll do that too and hopefully not dislocate my shoulder

Well i was a smaller guy when i shot my Mosin for the first time and so far its the biggest cal. i have shot. And want to shoot a .308 some time. But the recoil isnt that bad it hot my collar bone that was what hurt. And when i shoot it again i am going to make sure its not on my collar bone.

"I'm a real man and your a girly boy"

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Maybe it is a macho thing, but there is an added spice and challenge to touching off a round you know a few people would actually be injured by, and many more would not be able to fire accurately because of flinch. At certain levels of recoil it takes not just good technique but good equipment (gloves, recoil pads, etc.) to avoid injury.

Lots of good stories. Hitting a steel plate with a .475 Linebaugh (before I knew better ) and watching the front of the entire 6-plate rack come of the ground. Six .458 Lott rounds on target in five seconds and the months it took to get there.

Or watching my not quite 80-year-old mom, after we worked up to it, drop a target with a .44 Mag; perfect form. And then watching her do it again.

Saying to myself: "I know I'll flinch next time...but not this time." BOOM!

Weatherby Mark V .460 Weatherby Magnum

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Is that a Magna-port hole? Why, that's, that's...cheating!

Loosedhorse said:

Is that a Magna-port hole? Why, that's, that's...cheating!

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I know, I hate that it's ported. It took me a long time to find that rifle though. Wanted a 460 with iron sights, and the standard ones don't come with them anymore. Found that one in mint condition and couldn't pass it up. The guy I bought it from said it had only been fired twice and it's almost a thirty year old rifle. I have since put a couple hundred rounds through it. Recoils not too bad as long as you're holding it right. Got too relaxed once and the bolt handle cut my hand.

Found that one in mint condition and couldn't pass it up.

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Well, as long as it wasn't you who did it...

Loosedhorse said:

Well, as long as it wasn't you who did it...

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I'm pretty sure it came from the factory that way. It's a custom shop gun with a bunch of other little extras.

But does anyone else just really enjoy a good heavy recoil?

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Old age tends to cure that addiction. At 67 a 30-06 is all I want and light bullets at that.

I recently had an opportunity to shoot a .500 S&W. An older gentleman asked me if I wanted to try shooting something that would "get my attention". I asked what it was, and he said "It's just a smith". I got to his area of the bench and there it was.

"Here, shoot a cylinder of these, these are LIGHT loads!" I shot them and nothing about it was light at all.

"Now try THIS ONE!" He was right. those earlier rounds WERE light. The full-house load was a monster.

It was my first time shooting a large bore revolver and my shots were pretty consistent but about 8-10 inches high. This old man was hitting little orange stickers dead center. He said he brings it along as a conversation piece, and indeed it was. It was fun to shoot and surprisingly was not uncomfortable.

I went back to shooting .40 S&W and it felt like a .22. It did wonders for my accuracy at speed that day. It seemed like the reverse was true. Most say to practice fundamentals on a .22 which will help on the centerfires. For me, shooting something with a huge amount of recoil did help.

Bovice, that might not be a bad idea. It reminds me of baseball players who practice swinging with a weighted bat just prior to their at bat.

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Most say to practice fundamentals on a .22 which will help on the centerfires. For me, shooting something with a huge amount of recoil did help.

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You are totally right. I used to shoot five to seven inch groups with my .338 Win Mag. Started shooting my .458 Lott off the bench, and my .338 groups have shrunk to under an inch.