Hardest kicking gun you've ever shot?

[stchman]

A buddy of mine had an H&R single shot shotgun that split apart(I am not a shotgun expert).

We loaded 3" magnum shells with 00 buckshot and that thing kicked like a Missouri mule. It kicked so bad we both had nice big bruises on our right shoulders. I refused to shoot it after a while.

We finally taped a pillow to the butt stock to make it shootable.

I don't know if the shotgun was rated for 3" mag, but we did it anyway.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Never fired a shotgun that I would consider "brutal". The hardest I've ever been pelted was by my own .375 Ultra using 300 grain handloads. 2,970 FPS, IIRC, 103 grains of powder (I'll have to check my log). Calculated recoil of the 7.5 pound 700 BDL SS was 82 ft/lbs at 23 MPH.

I think I've put maybe 80 rounds out of that rifle in the 7 years I've had it.

My buddy's CZ safari in .416 Rigby was quite tolerable by comparison. It knocked me good, but the recoil of the bigger, slower bullets is not nearly as sharp. His rifle was also a couple pounds heavier. That BDL is just too light for that cartridge.

 

[19-3Ben]

I don't know if the shotgun was rated for 3" mag, but we did it anyway.

Proof that Darwinism doesn't always work

 

[millertyme]

.300 RUM w/o a break

 

[RippinSVT]

Handgun: 500 S&W, or Czech Skorpion on full-auto
Rifle: .458 Win Mag in a Ruger No. 1
Shotgun: Ithaca Mag 10...with 3.5" slug shells or heavy shot.

 

[dak0ta]

NEF pardner in 12 ga is pretty stout.

 

[SwampWolf]

No idea who made 'em.

For your information, they were made in Italy, imported by Garcia from 1968 to 1978 and were called the Garcia Bronco.

 

[hogshead]

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

 

[Tom Held]

jeffrey 500

The most punishing rifle I've shot is a 500 Jeffrey. 535 grain bullet @2400 fps with 7,000 foot pounds of energy. A 460 weatherby is a close runner up. Ammo for the Jeffrey runs just under $20 a round. The 375 H and H is a pussy cat compared to the other two.

Handgun would be the 454 Casull in the Ruger Alaska Guide Gun model.

 

[Ben86]

It's got to be my dad's old family relic 12 gauge with a hefty STEEL buttplate. STEEL! What were they thinking? That thing will wear out your shoulder in a hurry.

 

[Mountie855]

Friend's 600 Nitro Express in an H&H Double- in summer, T-shirt, with what seemed like a "cast-iron recoil pad"...nasty bruise lasted a while.

Fired two rounds, never felt the need to repeat the experience!

 

[scchokedaddy]

rifle-7mm weatherby mag weatherby custom rifle shotgun nova pump 12 gauge 3.5 00 buck pistol 500 smith none were any fun

 

[bob9125]

8". Charge 7, White Bag on a humid night. The concussion is unreal. [;-)

 

[plumberroy]

H&R 12 ga turkey gun 24" barrel extra full choke plastic stock just a little over 5#. I decided right there if I'm going to shoot a 3 1/2 shell it is going to be a 10 ga they are no where near as brutal.
One of the navy arms costum shop 58's made for their 71 safari 160 grains of fffg and a 500 grain minie ball. It rattle the windows a 1/4 mile away and ripped wholes all the way through 55 gallon drum full of wet ash (my 45/70 with class 3 reloads wouldn't go through) 4 shots And I was black and blue.
Once fire a spanish double 10 from the hip both barrels won't do that again
Roy

 

[Al LaVodka]

No. 5 Enfield Jungle Carbine in .303. This military gun is so tough it was issued with an integral rubber butt-pad, however, after sixty years it is basically as hard as a rock. I used it to make a "Rambo" at the range cry once.

Hot .44 Mag. outta my trapper (16") lever-action kicks surprisingly hard too -- lightweight and a pretty thin butt. Hey, sounds EXACTLY like my girlfriend!

Al

 

[highorder]

Most painful was a Marlin lever action in .45-70 with full house hunting reloads or the S&W Scandium .357.

Owen and I somehow had exactly the same answer.

That .45-70 was brutal. I fired two rounds and set it down on the bench.

 

[blackrussian]

.50 Desert Eagle or a Saiga 12. The Saiga was more fun.

 

[dbb1776]

Revelation single shot 12 gauge. Even with bird shot it hurts.

 

[dbb1776]

I've fired 45/70 rugler single shot, 12 gauges, 500 S&w, 44's but that revelation hurts.

 

[Izzy77]

I also have to agree the steoger m-2000 ( defense mod. in my case) is one HECK of a kicking SG...Much worse than a stock Mossberg 500.

I want to get the mercury recoil reducer...but it's 75 USD + Shipping...

Maybe next year.

 

[DeepSouth]

New England arms 10 Ga with 00 buck shot

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

350 Rem mag. in a 600 Remmy. A real pleasure to carry in the woods and hoped I only had to shoot it once.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

+1 to the above...

But the hardest kick I've received was from a 458 Win mag (Winchester model 70)

 

[five.five-six]

.300 WM weatherized ruger with now break, 220 grain bullets.... Ehh,

m44 nagant with heavy ball.... grow up

Mossberg 500 with 1 oz slugs.... my wife's favorite round, and she's small


but the styer M95 carbine.... OMG it's like getting hit by a truck.... that thing has given me several bloody lips

 

[Gtone]

Had a Beretta O/U go double-bang on me once. That's about the hardest recoil I've ever felt in a long gun. Maybe the time I used Federal's tactical OO Buck out of an IAC 1887 Lever action. Old fashioned recoil system of wood, steel, and shoulder.