Hardest kicking gun you've ever shot?

[USAF_Vet]

10 gauge muzzle loading shotgun was pretty tough.
I shoot 385gr sabots through my .50 ML with 80gr loose powder. My wife was p!$$ed at me when I let her fire that.
also, my Mosin Nagant M-44 kicks pretty hard. Whoever came up with the idea of having a steel buttplate was a certified genious.

 

[nyresq]

I did the" pull both triggers for fun" once... once was enough.

Even harder then that was a 460. Weatherby magnum that a" friend" handed me and said, "here give this a try". It was a plastic stock with no pad and a pencil barrel light weight that smacked me like an angry mother... Then I turned to see everyone laughing and remarking no one had ever shot it with the brake and recoil pad removed...

And the second worst was a scandium 44 mag revolver that I had for about a month before I sold it. Even with padded shooting gloves the recoil was so sharp my hand would hurt after 10 or 12 rounds.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

Browning A-Bolt 12 guage with sabot slugs and a piercing headache.

 

[Moose23]

Seems to be a recurring model on this thread, so....

H & R Topper 12 gauge with No. 1 buck. No recoil pad, 11 years old, first shot EVER at a deer. Too excited to feel pain when I pulled the trigger, but, boy did it hurt the next day! And missed the deer, to add insult to injury.

 

[roadchoad]

Mossy 835 2oz 3" magnums. That gun kicks hard with anything though.

 

[Hangingrock]

bob9125ig or Self Propelled?

Self Propelled

 

[PapaG]

Six gauge flintlock at the Wisconsin Sportsman's Alliance summer black powder shotgun matches. Brass scheutzen style buttplate, eight or so drams of powder, three or more ounces of shot and my first shot on station 1 high house just about put me out for the weekend. I got the bird but I got over wanting a really big bore and went back to my ten double.

 

[Mentokk1]

.510 kodiak

 

[Searcher4851]

Hardest kick I ever experienced was from a 600 nitro express double rifle shooting a 900 grain bullet. Figured what the heck, how bad could it kick. The rifle weighed a ton. (or at least 15 pounds) I was wrong. Needless to say, I didn't fire the second barrel. The bruise was gone in 3 weeks.

 

[Jalexander]

The worst shotgun was my grandfather's 20 gauge Lefever Nitro Special. It's not really that bad, but the old plastic buttplate is no fun when you're 10. For real, honest-to-goodness worst, though, nothing has topped the .454 Ruger Alaskan with full-power loads. That just hurt.

James

 

[tcrocker]

NEF 10ga extra full choke short barrel

 

[mio]

.338 win mag

 

[garyw]

For real, honest-to-goodness worst, though, nothing has topped the .454 Ruger Alaskan with full-power loads. That just hurt.

That's just fun in my opinion! However, the S&W 340PD with full power loads, all 5 of 'em in quick succession, now THAT hurt!

 

[WhitewaterDave]

50-110 Sharps in a medium weight re-barreled Shiloh Sharps rifle with the original style
metal butt plate. Even though the owner said I could fire it several times, once was enough.

 

[Nick5182]

Winchester Widowmaker 12 ga.

I found a .375 H&H to be more pleasurable, tho neither make my "fun gun" list.

 

[commygun]

NEF Tracker II (I believe that's what it was called). It was a short barreled 12ga. slug gun. I'm not particularily recoil sensitive but that sucker hurt! Stopped my Timex as well.

 

[32 Magnum]

Rem. M700 in .375 REM UltraMag - not fun - one shot was enough off the bench. (Other than that - it was probably the M2 .50 BMG with the barrel cut down to 16" and fitted with a hand carved bullpup stock I made from a C-ration pallet while fighting my way off of Hainan Island during the VietNam conflict)

 

[Shadow 7D]

MK 19, was good enough on the T&E, preferred to ride it down and to the left, I was a lightweight (as in not a heavy or especially strong) so the few time I tried free gunning it, I got rocked.

 

[shooter_from_show-me]

Rifle: Win M70 stainless in .300 Win Mag shooting 180gr SP bullets

Handgun: Ruger SBH .44mag using 23gr of Lil Gun behind a 240gr Horn. XTP bullet

 

[Marine SS]

my grandpa's .338 lapua sniper rifle. I am twelve and I have shot alot of big guns including my .375 h&h. even it didn't kick as much. i was shooting it offhand and i had to go to the hospital!!!!

 

[BushyGuy]

i shot a .458 winchester magnum safari gun, oh man i never forget that day.....

 

[nothalfbad]

12 gauge Ithaca Deer Slayer Featherlight with rifled Remington slugs. I got drawn on a controlled hunt that allowed shotgun slugs and I needed practice. I shot 25 of those slugs and made mince meat out of my shoulder. I could barely keep it on the paper most of the time and never did improve with practice.

The most brutal shot I ever saw was when me and my cousin (both 12 years old) gave my 11 year old brother my uncle's old 12 gauge (Stevens?) double barrel and dared him to point it up and pull both triggers. It literally sat him down. He was a big kid so no permanent damage.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Remington 700 in .308, only gun to ever give me a bruise.

 

[husker]

Mossberg 835 with 3.5 buckshot, Rem 760 steel butt plate 35 Wheelen, Taurus Titanium 44 mag, in that order.

Mossberg 835 with 3-1/2 inch 000 buck. pretty good kick
My SPR 220 coach with 3inch mag 000 buck. Shot the 5 I bought. never again. 2-3/4 are plenty

 

[Joe Demko]

A lightweight .338 Winchester Magnum rifle about 15 years ago. It was a Ruger. The synthetic stock didn't fit me and was, IMO, poorly designed. In fairness, it would put the bullets where you were aiming. At the same time, each shot was an excercise in unpleasantness. It belongs to a friend who still has it, but I don't believe he's shot it since that day we last had it out.