Steve Haygood wrote:hardest kicking revolver I ever shot was a 3"RB 44 mag with full house 240gr PMC loads, I shot 6 rounds and that was enough. For a real hoot, I have a 12" TC bull barrel 45-70, barrel by Bullberry. Then there is the 300 Savage in 14".....
Yeah I know.... those blanks they put in those guns for the movies enable them to do stuff you can't..... really.... do.
Steve Haygood wrote:Then there is the 300 Savage in 14".....
That is nuckin futs, how's your shoulder? An NM M1A shooting 168 gr SMK is sweeeeet. The recoil is minimal.
shooting a pistol in 300 or 45-70 , it won't be your shoulder you are worried about....wrist,elbow or maybe your forehead if you don't have a grip on it
My hardest-kicking handgun was a S&W J-Frame, I think it was a model 60, hammerless 5 shot revolver. It was light weight, and with 158grn .357 Magnum loads it was AWFUL to shoot. It was a real sweetheart with a light .38spl load.
My hardest-kicker among long guns is a Mod1895 Hungarian Mannlicher straight pull bolt carbine, started life as a long rifle in 8x50R Austro-Hungarian, was modified in the 1930's to a short carbine configuration, and recut for 8x56R...that thing hurts me so badly that after 10-15 rounds, I'm done. A close second would be a Carcano short rifle that was recut for 8mm Mauser...imagine a 6.5 LB short rifle popping off that cartridge, brutal.
and on the other end of the spectrum. I handloaded some round ball bullets in my Ruger 45 Blackhawk and you could watch the bullets as they went to the target
Funny. I do everything right-handed except shoot. That's left-handed for me. I used to be heavy into .22 long rifle target shooting. I've got boxes of targets with good 5-shot groupings. This was in the mid-late '90s, then I started getting unusually busy. It didn't help that my instructor died of colon cancer. I'd love to pick it up again.
I know a few people with EBR disease. I guess I now know more.
