Big Recoil

[ball3006]

My TC Contender with modern 45-70 loads will get your attention and a cracked noggin if you are not careful......chris3

 

[Captains1911]

I recently had an opportunity to shoot a .500 S&W.
I went back to shooting .40 S&W and it felt like a .22.

Err, ummm, dejavu...

 

[Scipio Africanus]

I don't know if I like recoil, but I do like big guns. My safe contains these, among other things:

S&W 629 4" (currently my favorite handgun)
Ruger SRA in .454
S&W 500 4"

Tikka 695 in .338 WM
Marlin 1895 in 45-70
CZ-550 in .458 Lott

Remington 870 3.5"

I guess I do like recoil a little bit...

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Girly?

My wife shoots a .470NE.

 

[captain awesome]

man am I jealous of that 460 Weatherby, I too have been lusting after one for a while. I love those big bore blasters. I think its the boom I like more but the recoil doesn't bother me. But I definately like KNOWING I just fired.
For now I just settle on these;
450 marlin 1895
500 magnum BFR 10"
John Ross 500 magnum S&W (A custom performance center run of half under lug 5" barrels with no compensator and a Dan Wesson style barrel system. quite a gun)
Dan Wesson 445 supermag Alaskan guide special 4"
Super Red Hawk 480Ruger 9"
Colt Anaconda 44 mag 8"
S&W 629 4" 44mag
S&W 29-2 8" 44mag

Everything else 41 mag and on down are small potatoes, except my BFR in 45/410, I wonder if it can take Ruger only loads. Mostly just bought it for clays.

 

[ChCx2744]

.454 Casull is no joke, especially out of a 4" barrel...I've heard those snub nosed 500 S&W magnums are no joke either.

 

[Loosedhorse]

I have a .460 revolver, 5-shot. I love to load it .45 cowboy, .45 SD, .45+P hunting, .454, and .460. I demonstrate it, and then let whomever I'm introducing it to try the same. The difference between each power level is large, and becomes increasingly unbelievable. The response to the last two loads is usually unbridled laughter. I estimate the size of the muzzle fireball of the last round as 3.5-4 feet in diameter, no kidding.

It's like having the 4th of July in your hands. That's fun, and that's sharing the fun.

 

[Strykervet]

Ha ha, I called in an A10 airstrike once in combined arms training. I was batt. ratelo at the time. THAT was cool, two came in and circled the tank, one dived and fired, then the second did and they took off. The tank looked like the Fourth of July for a couple of seconds. The recoil looked obvious when they fired, it LOOKS like they go backwards (but they don't)! We watched from a mountaintop and had a real good view too.

I got to call in the night mission, and later two Navy Intruders from a carrier in the Pacific, but I missed whatever they did. We had to have IR beacons and orange flags on our vehicles so we wouldn't get accidentally lit up. That would have been nasty.

I called in some arty, but I was so far away I never even heard it. I did see 155's go over head, they look like barrels going through the air, at Ft. Lewis. Lots of recoil on those babies and range too, they fire on one side and the splash is on another.

As for shoulder fired, I don't know, I used to. It's messed up now and I'm not so keen to aggravate it. I prefer an M4 for HD to a shotgun for this reason (and I'm better with the M4). I have a .50 Beowulf that is just the bees knees to shoot though, nothing like a 12ga. kick in an M4 platform.

Not fond of the recoil in an FAL, I kept getting ACOG rings on the forehead and busted one lens cover, so I switched to an Elcan. At least it has a rubber coating.

 

[gbran]

Left to right; 8ga, 12ga, 20ga, .410

The 8ga offers some real recoil.

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[Sauer Grapes]

I've shot a S&W chambered in .454 casull and a Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag. Both were full power loads.



Once was enough for me..lol.

 

[wep45]

Big Recoil

not now.....not ever

 

[mortablunt]

I remember the first time I shot. It was a big 12 gauge shotgun and I was maybe only 90 pounds, shoes and clothes included. There's something about a big boom that you don't get from a PCC. It's just an intense experience.

 

[LoonWulf]

I dont like sharp recoil, heavy recoil i dont mine. But if it hurts im not interested in it. My 8 lb .300 running hot 180s hurts, my heavier 12ga shooting 1oz slugs was entertaining.

 

[Loosedhorse]

I dont like sharp recoil, heavy recoil i dont mine.

158 gr .38+Ps out of a 342 is much worse than anything I've fired out of the .460. .410 out of American Derringer is worse still.

 

[545days]

I've never been particularly turned on heavy recoil. A day plinking with a .22 (or even a nice air rifle) in the field is far more pleasant than a day of being pounded by the recoil of a light weight magnum revolver or bolt action centerfire rifle. Given the choice of shooting a .22 or a .357, I'll chose the .22most every time. I should explain that I find the .45 M1911 to recoil with more of a slow push than a sharp slap. M1911 .45's are fun to shoot, because they point well for me, not because the larger caliber somehow adds fun to recreational shooting.

For what it is worth: I've never been particularly turned on by full auto either. After 25 years in the Army Reserve, I've shot everything from the M2 to M4 and have never found full auto fire to be a particular turn on.

 

[303tom]

Turn a .45-70 loose one handed & you will know recoil.

 

[TCB in TN]

Recoil doesn't really bother me, but I don't care for it. I have shot a lot of big stuff, and I can handle the recoil. Especially while hunting, but do I like it? No. I don't mind shooting anything, but once you get over a .300WM it is not really enjoyable to me.

 

[xfyrfiter]

500N.E. is the one that will get your attention. Huge recoil ,big boom. and expensive, as in $10.00 per shot commercial, about $6.00 in reloads. Bragging rights are priceless though.

 

[ExTank]

This may be too geeky for the general High Roader, but...

 

[maskedman504]

I get enough bang out of my 4" S&W .357 mag. Hey, when it goes off, I get a look from the guy in the next stall.... Now the Browning .300 WSM really goes bang...