Which rifle has the most recoil?

18 July 2003, 08:03

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Originally posted by Recono:

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Originally posted by Clark:
I know someone who watched a guy shoot .410 contender pistol with hot Blue Dot handloads.

The targets were rats and the painful recoil was ignored.

The next day all feeling had left the right fore arm and hand. The feeling did not return for a month and a half.
Wow! I'd hate to think what happened to the guy who shot it, if that's what happened to the guy who watched.

I used to shoot skeet with mine, but didn't let anyone watch for that very reason. [Big Grin]

Mine has a pachmayr grip, though, and was quite gentle. [Cool]

18 July 2003, 12:19

Socrates

Sorry: Don't know how this ended up on the wrong thread...

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18 July 2003, 14:38

HenryC470

470 NE in Heym double, 500 grains, 2150 fps. Just my personal best.

H. C.

19 July 2003, 11:20

Kent in IA

500 Jeffery rifle built on a M700 Safari. Weighed in at 9 lbs 14 oz. Load was a 570 gr Barnes, 108 gr IMR4064 for 2340 fps. Shooting that load was invigorating! I usually shot 440 gr pills in that rifle. They were excellent varmit bullets.

By the way, anyone else think Bertram brass SUCKS!

Kent

19 July 2003, 12:11

LAWCOP

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Originally posted by Jeremy:
After meeting the man, I don't see how any discussion of recoil can go on without mention of Kent Lomont. I believe he once shot his 4-bore ~75 times in one week, 10 or so in one afternoon. The loads he mentioned gave recoil numbers around 450 ft-lbs. I don't know how many here have met him, or even know of him, but after meeting him his stories are quite believable.

I HAVE known Kent for over 20 years and I can tell you the he shoots more then ANYONE I have ever met on the planet. I hae seen him shoot a five gallon bucket of .357 mag out of 2 model 27s in one afternoon over about 2 hours. Seen him light up a .50 bbl until you can light papers off of it. He buys ammo by the container load and shoots it all himself in his C3 toys.
ANY tale related to shooting and Kent Lamont can be taken to the bank.

21 July 2003, 12:50

Karl

Double discharges..
My brother and I like pulling a stunt by in fact pulling both barrels on a lightweight sxs 12ga with 3" 1&7/8 oz loads in each barrel.
Almost 4 oz of shot and powder from I think a 6lb(?) Boito shotgun.

One barrel is bad enough but surprisingly two at once has never been much worse. My theory was the barrels weren't going off precisely together and so not multiplying the recoil.

May have been correct since my brother has just emailed me saying he got them to go with 'one big boom'the other day [Big Grin]

, cutting his fingers with the trigger guard and bruising his cheekbone.

Karl.

21 July 2003, 23:37

Overkill

And I have been thinking of what would happend if you pull both triggers at the same in a double rifle in caliber like .500-.600-.700 [Big Grin]

23 July 2003, 19:28

Karl

On the subject of largish recoil here is the currently one and only load for my 585 with a picture of the case-the pics a bit messy looking. Hopefully once the stock situation is sorted, I'll finally finish the load development for it. [Big Grin]

http://www.reloadersnest.com/frontpage.asp?CaliberID=302

Karl.

28 July 2003, 12:09

The Maz

Stevens single-barrel 12 Ga shotgun with 1-7/8 ounce 3" shells. Gun only wieghed 6 pounds, and no recoil pad. Knocked me backward two steps and turned me 45 degrees to port. Tried slugs from squat position - ended up standing. Switched permanently to low-brass target loads for thea gun ever since! It makes my .458 feel like a peashooter by comparison!

31 July 2003, 16:12

hoss101

Definitely a little NEF single barrel rifle sighted shotgun shooting full house 3 1/2 inch magnum, 2 1/4 ounces of #4 shot turkey loads. I don`t believe that little thing weighs more than 4 pounds. By the 2nd shot I had a bruise that lasted 2 weeks and covered most of my shoulder. I believe if I would have fired that thing one more time, I`d probably have a permanent flinch.

02 August 2003, 03:39

Clark

Recono,
When I was a little boy my father was designing a gun with 480,000 pound recoil reaction. When I saw the red hydraulic fluid all over the ground, I thought it was blood from all the people killed with the gun.

06 August 2003, 19:12

Socrates

Is your dad now dead, killed by Mossad, for building rail guns for anti-Jewish countries, like Saddam's?
(by the way, this, in jest comment, is a true story) [Big Grin]

06 August 2003, 19:17

Socrates

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/battleships/missouri/bb63-mo.html

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The war continued as Allied air superiority continued to dominate the demoralized Iraqi army. In February 1991, Missouri fired her 16-inch guns ï¿½ the first firing of her guns in anger since the Korean conflict in the 1950s. Firing at targets just north of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, the ship assisted shore-based ground units in their tasks. Missouri shared gunnery duties with USS Wisconsin (BB 64) and the two battleships continued to hammer at their targets with 16-inch gunnery. Near the end of the month, Missouri turned her big guns on Faylaka Island and Kuwait City in support of the ground offensive. Iraq agreed to a cease fire agreement on 28 February 1991.

Guys saw the spotting drone, and started waiving white flags, PRIOR TO BOMBARDMENT.

9 16 inch guns.

2900 POUND explosive projectile, at about 3000 fps, range 20 miles. Broadside MOVES a 45,000 ton battleship sideways, if fired together.

And, they are rifled...and, are called rifles.

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