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If you hold them properly, full-sized Mosins, Mausers and most other vintage steel-butt war rifles do not kick that hard. The problem is most American shooters lean way too far forward because we are used to shooting with scopes. This places the steel butt right on the bone. Even the M-38 and M-44 Mosins don't kick that hard if held correctly.
IMHO the most hard-recoiling of WWII vintage bolt actions would be the M-95 Austro-Hungarian straight pull carbine. It kicks, man it kicks. It's also about the lightest carbine from the era using a full-size battle cartridge. The Mannlicher-Carcanos chambered in 8x57JS would probably give the cut down M-95 a run for its money, but I'm not about to shoot one!
I'd have to say it's the Mosin-Nagants. I don't think they were designed as anything more than to just have something to put into the hands of the troops.
Having shot a 91/30, an Enfield #4, and a Steyr-Mannlicher M-95 carbine side-by-side, the hands-down winner was the M-95. Those flyweight little carbines boosting a 200+ grain bullet to 2500+ fps definitely rattles your teeth.
It is to be noted that the other two guns were full-sized/weight, but I still think the M-95 hits the hardest. It's really light. Both Mosins and Enfields are rather beefy guns, and are still heavier than the M-95 in carbine format. IIRC, all three shoot a similar-weight bullet, i.e. 174 grains in .303, and 192 grains for 8mm Mauser, at least later in the war when the Germans had standardized on the heavier-bullet MG load instead of the faster 148-grain rifle load.
i've only had experience with a mauser, and i have lots of turkish ammo so thats my plinking stuff. it does leave a mark.
not unbearable but then i also have plenty of fat to help cushion the blast.
newly manufactured ammo however is very light.
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