NeverAgain26
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O.K., so here I am a city boy down in Memphis, TN visiting a customer who I work with on shooting product. We needed to get out to the woods to test out some electronic ears. We needed some loud guns.
My customer told me a bunch of times he had a Weatherby 340 Mag which he didn't shoot much because the recoil was so brutal. This was the gun he brought to shoot. All morning long he told me how much the gun kicked. We drove out to the woods, got out of the car and there I am standing in my suit and he hands me the gun with a big grin on his face.
I was so psyched out by all the talk, I grabbed the gun with some hesitation, shouldered it and expected to be knocked on my a** in the mud in my suit.
Squeezed the trigger expecting the worst and ....
.... it never came. I felt less recoil than I ever felt with my 12 gauge H & K pump gun. I smiled and kept on shooting asking them 'What recoil?'
We headed back to the office and I walked in and was met with some grins and was asked how it felt to shoot the gun. I told them I loved shooting it and it was a honey of a gun and I was being honest.
The recoil might have been slightly more than my AR10 (.308).
What gives? Am I nuts or are they? I really loved shooting the gun and I would not hesitate to fire it and wouldn't flinch. Were they over-hyping the recoil or did they really feel like it was too much gun? 3 guys, each one of them had 50-100 pounds on me and they all felt like the recoil was something I would hate.
We also shot a 12 gauge they thought I might hate and I loved that, too.
Don't get me wrong, my H & K pump gun felt plenty brutal until I learned how to shoulder it properly and put in a recoil reducer. But this Weatherby was sweeet!
Recoil is over-rated, me-thinks
NA26
My customer told me a bunch of times he had a Weatherby 340 Mag which he didn't shoot much because the recoil was so brutal. This was the gun he brought to shoot. All morning long he told me how much the gun kicked. We drove out to the woods, got out of the car and there I am standing in my suit and he hands me the gun with a big grin on his face.
I was so psyched out by all the talk, I grabbed the gun with some hesitation, shouldered it and expected to be knocked on my a** in the mud in my suit.
Squeezed the trigger expecting the worst and ....
.... it never came. I felt less recoil than I ever felt with my 12 gauge H & K pump gun. I smiled and kept on shooting asking them 'What recoil?'
We headed back to the office and I walked in and was met with some grins and was asked how it felt to shoot the gun. I told them I loved shooting it and it was a honey of a gun and I was being honest.
The recoil might have been slightly more than my AR10 (.308).
What gives? Am I nuts or are they? I really loved shooting the gun and I would not hesitate to fire it and wouldn't flinch. Were they over-hyping the recoil or did they really feel like it was too much gun? 3 guys, each one of them had 50-100 pounds on me and they all felt like the recoil was something I would hate.
We also shot a 12 gauge they thought I might hate and I loved that, too.
Don't get me wrong, my H & K pump gun felt plenty brutal until I learned how to shoulder it properly and put in a recoil reducer. But this Weatherby was sweeet!
Recoil is over-rated, me-thinks
NA26