Moderate power firearms by Massad Ayoob Issue #110
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Most people who claim to love to shoot hard-kicking guns usually admit sooner or later that they don’t really enjoy it on a regular basis. The novelty wears off pretty quickly.
Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
LAZARUS LONG
I can hit the target consistently with my .475 Linebaugh, but it spends most of it’s time in my safe. I regularly carry a .45ACP, but lately a S&W 442 has taken up residence in my right front pocket.
One ARC LIGHT mission I was on took out an elephant with a 750 lb. bomb. Elmer Keith would have been pleased.
On the extreme side of this idea, I used to shoot at a range where the owner holstered a .22 automatic. I asked him why on earth did he carry that on his hip with all the other choices at hand.
He said since it was so light and without any recoil, he could put 4-5 rounds anywhere he wanted to in a instant: one target, three targets, etc. He followed up with, if that’s not enough, I disappear behind that door for a second and come out with something really nasty.
Can’t say I wholeheartedly agreed, but he seemed pretty comfortable with it.
I can shoot my Garand all day long.
But about 10 rounds is all I can handle on the 30-06 Savage. Of course it’s only sighters and one or two rounds at a time for hunting.
To qoute a friend of mine:
“Shot placement is King. Adequate penetration is Queen. Everything else is angels dancing on the head of a pin.”
In this case I think he may be fixing something that is not broke.
There are any number of recoil reducing pads and recoil reducing accessories on the market now. Limbsaver comes to mind as one example.
The hardest kicking rifle I have ever personally fired was a Military Spanish Mauser chambered in .308.
It had nothing to do with the cartridge or the bullet weight.
The buttstock had a strange cut with a steel plate attached to conform to the shape of the cut.
Mounting it to my shoulder in the soft "v" as is my custom I thought I had separated my shoulder blade after I fired it the first time.
Before I fired it again, I purchased a cheap rubber sleeve type recoil reducer to slide over the buttstock and now it shoots as well as any gun I have.
Great truck gun.
Recoil was not the problem, it was gun design.
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