Mosin Bubba
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An M44 with heavy ball ammo will definitely get your attention, and it will also do it a lot more cheaply than some of the other guns listed.
Question for those who have the big bore rifles (say .375 and larger) and hunt turkeys. How does the recoil of the big boomers compare to a 3.5 inch 12 ga. turkey load? The heaviest recoil I've experienced is 2.25 oz of hevi-shot from my 3.5" Remington 870. I shot 8 rounds from a bench sighting in my Burris FF3 sight and that was a few more than I care for.Of course, it does not meet the rifling nor the 200 yards criteria, but for inexpensive (less than a dollar a round) and easy to find (sold everywhere) punch (pain?) in the shoulder, the twelve gauge very basic slug is just great. It's made a .338 Winchester with a nice soft pad feel very delicate.
On the softer, rifled, longer range side of things, my Remington 760 Gamemaster in .30-06 Springfield with a metal but plate is cute. Still pleasant to shoot, but lets you know you have shot it. Noting comparable to the twelve, but it wakes you up after a hundred .22 LR shots. Like others, I will insist on the metal plate part, it just seems of importance.
I agree w/this ^Like the handi rifle idea! Course the heaviest recoil to be commonly found is 2 ounce turkey loads and 1-3/4 ounce magnum slugs through any of the 12 gauge single shots. Don't try this from a bench! A 5 pound gun puts out over 100 pounds of sharp recoil, not gentle shove there.
There is an online calculator which provides some basis for comparison...
http://www.handloads.com/calc/recoil.asp
For giggles we can throw in the shotguns. 2 ounce turkey load at 1250 fps, 2-1/2 dram equivalent = 875 grains projectile, 1250 fps, 68 grains powder out of a standard 6 pound field gun = 98+ foot pounds of recoil. Won't find many takers for 100 round shooting session with these things. 5 in a box is plenty
(dram is equal to a bit over 27 1/3 grains of powder so 2 dram = 55, 2-1/2 dram = 68. Shot or slug weights 1 ounce = 437-1/2 grains)
This brings up a great point. Does the OP want something that moves him or something that hurts him? Pain can be achieved with a narrow, steel butt plate or using a scope with insufficient eye relief. OTOH, if you want recoil that moves your body, it is hard to accomplish without significant mass exiting the barrel at high velocity. As Illinoisburt demonstrated, the cheapest way to get massive recoil is with a turkey load in a shotgun.This is easy. Get a Rossi 92 in 44 Mag.
I've got the following in my safe:
Mosin 91/30
Marlin XL-7 in 270
M1 Garand
Rossi 92
Remington 870 in 12 ga.
Some other stuff that doesn't kick hard.
The Rossi 92 has the most felt recoil of anything in the safe. Full power magnum loads (think Winchester white box), become downright painful due to the small, narrow steel buttplate.