Anybody Ever Been Kicked By a Mule?

[Kind of Blued]

I'm curious to see if I can get some insight into what caliber or rifle may actually "kick like a mule".

 

[Ridgerunner665]

350 Remington Magnum in a 6 pound rifle (Remington model 600)

 

[Schleprok62]

.338 Winchester Magnum...

 

[lacoochee]

Maybe not a mule, ( I have been kicked by horse, you only let that happen once !!) but I have been on the butt end of a 10 guage and you definitely feel it until you learn to roll with it.

 

[Coronach]

I, too, have been kicked by a horse. I have never felt any recoil that hurt more than that. I can't imagine that a mule would be too far off. If someone handed me a gun and said "it kicks like a mule" and I knew he wasn't exaggerating, I would hand it right back.

Seriously.

Mike

 

[Kind of Blued]

Mike, I think you may have made my point, that being that perhaps not that many guns are worthy of this label.

 

[blkbrd666]

I shot my grandfather's .303 when I was about 3 feet tall and 50lbs. BOY, the one he had sure kicked more than the one I have now...I never have to get back up anymore.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

I have been around mules all my life...I have 3 at this time.

I have seen them knock 40 pound dogs for 30 feet...mules are way stronger (and quicker on their feet) than horses...a 1000 lb. mule would drag a 1000 lb. horse all over the place in a "tractor pull"...

 

[Vaarok]

One-ton Brown Swiss dairy cow.

 

[HB]

No, but I have been dragded by a horse as both of us were being stung by wasps.... The guy behind me got stung 27 times... I was dragged about 35 feet by my right foot with about 3 stings occurring during this time It just so happened my horse stepped on their hive

3'' 12 gauge in any flavor hurt, but I rather shoot them than be dragged all over Tennessee again

HB

 

[jerkface11]

My grandfather was kicked in the chest by a mule as a teenager. He was in a coma for several days. It moved his heart down 3 inches. When he gets a new doctor it still scares them 60 years later.

 

[john917v]

I've shot a .375 H&H. It didn't seem too bad, and I did ok on paper, *considering my current shooting abilities* This of course, was after I learned to properly hold a long arm for firing her on THR!!!

 

[rangerruck]

shot a dudes long range Gibbs once.... once.

 

[bang_bang]

When I was about 14 or so, I shot a New England single shot 12 gauge with buckshot...now I have a slightly chipped front tooth.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

Shot a 461 Rigby. It was a push rather than a kick.

 

[Sabah Alev]

7.62x54 was the biggest kick I've ever felt. was fun

 

[Fast Frank]

When I was a kid, I got kicked by a horse.

Looking back at that, I believe it was a good natured thump designed to train me. I'm quite sure that horse could have killed me if he wanted to.

As far as comparing that half throttle thump to the recoil of a rifle...

I've fired the 300 mags, the 7mm mags, the 375H&H mag, .45-70, maximum loads in my .50 cal muzzle loader, magnum shotgun loads, .44 mags, .50 AE, .454 Cassul, and even fired .45 Long Colt out of a derringer.

None of those bruised me like the horse did. Not even close.

I'm going to have to agree that "Kicks like a Mule" is an exaggeration.

 

[Geno]

Don't recall ever being kicked by a horse/mule, but was once kicked by my TKD instructor as he attmpted a blindfolded kick. We were preparing for a demonstration.

That said, if firearms kicked that badly, I would become a non-firearms owner in a hurry. The most uncomfortable recoil I have experienced was a .378 Wea. Mag. The .338 Win. Mag wasn't much "better".

 

[transformerguru]

Doesn't Mosin translate to mule?

 

[Owens]

So far the 2 biggest I've been involved with are a 30/378 Weatherby and 45-70. Can't say that I've really fired anything that kicked like the proverbial mule.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Got kicked by a good sized Black Angus bull one time in my early teen years. Interestingly enough when I came out of my daze later I couldn't remember what being kicked felt like but the aftermath was pretty bad.

The worst firearms kick I've experienced was 3" magnum goose load out of a light shotgun with a bad recoil pad.

Neither one is an experience I wish to repeat.

 

[Cannonball888]

OK not a rifle but an old side-by-side double-barrel 12ga with no recoil pad, discharging both barrels simultaneously.

 

[Rottweiler]

Was kicked by a horse when I was 14. Broke my collarbone. If he'd connected with my head, like he was aiming for, I wouldn't be typing this. No rifle I've ever fired did that much damage

 

[junyo]

What Cannonball said.

I'm fairly insensitive to recoil, and I've never fired a rifle that I thought kicked like a mule, but the first time I touched off a 10 gauge magnum out of an old pump it was... interesting.

Now on the other hand, full power .357 out of one of those S&W featherweights? Yeah, whimpering just thinking about it.

 

[MCgunner]

Motorcycles are safer than horses and mules and only eat when you need 'em. Of course, I've been kicked down the road by a few, but I can't really blame the motorcycle, except maybe the time it tossed a rod and locked up mid turn and high sided me. But, then, you risk that when you're trying to turn a motor 1.5 times faster than its design limit with porting and pipe tuning and such.

I've fired up to .375 H&H and can't claim it was that bad, really. I guess the hardest kicking long gun was my light weight 12 gauge double when I tested rifled slugs in it. It was pointing 12 o'clock after the shot, not real enjoyable off the bench. LOL I hunted waterfowl with that gun, 3" goose loads weren't all THAT bad. The slug felt more like touching off both barrels with 3" goose loads in 'em, not fun. I remembered that when I bought my Spartan coach gun ...... IN 20 GAUGE! LOL