I dont like the "hogsback", because they tends to kick the muzzle upwards during recoil. Then you get the scope knocking a fine halfmoon up in your forehead near the hair.
But it helps a lot just to straighten up the angle of the recoilpad to 90 degres.
I've fired many shots with those rifles, both in 416 Rigby, and 458 Lott and think they give you more recoil than nesseserly.
I have a 602 in 460Wby.(no brake!) and that has a straight classic stock. I think that rifle is better to shoot that those "hogbacks".

PC.
What have you wraped around your scope, and why?

Arild,
We need to get you to do some exercise to build up your gripping strength, and maybe your chest and arms need some beefing up too.

Then when you are able to handle the hogback, we'll see about plastic surgery to hide the scars on your forehead, maybe a hair transplant to simply cover your whole forehead with hair down to the eyebrows. Then you can just comb the hair over the new wounds to hide them.

Seriously: You have been bit by a scope high on your forehead near the hairline? Sheesh! You deserve some kind of award for that trick! I don't know what kind of award, but maybe someone can come up with one.

RIP,

Please give it up. I propose that a fake head injury of some sort would allow you to bow out gracefully from your misguided beliefs about hogbacks.

I think I shall propose this over on ABGH.

And maybe you, RIP, should try to beef up your head with some inteligence. You dont have to be a great engineer to figure out whats best of these two stock-types. Straight classic, and Hogback.
Some key words:
Force x arm = momentum.

But I shall not confuse you, so I'd take away your nightsleep with such difficult things!!

I havent had the scopes touching my head, because when i see those "hell-stocks" i know that to expect, but I've seen severals that dont.

I dont think the hair transplant is nessesearly for you my friend, because the sound of your answer looks like the hair already are that low in you forhead. And I also think the eyebrows grows together as one, and you have only one eye in the midle of the head!
You better start to find out what to buy for yourself, as a award of "lack of knowledge".

Merry Christmas!

(I simply cant see why I should have to take that kind of answers?)

460, I have a hate for dents + scratches on my stuff...have done since a kid hence the camo tape....it is good for resale as well, everthing is brand new

Bakes yeah I am a G.Ablett fan, that article was written in 1994, I had it laminated, now I get to follow his sons careers.

Yeah I still have not mastered sizing yet

460 WBY,

Actually is torque (force) not momentum, but if you are giving RIP crap, I'm all for it.

Hey,
The pitch of the butt makes it hang well and does not contribute to muzzle rise.

The drop of the butt does contribute to muzzle rise, but the American stock has considerable drop too.

That hogback just hangs well on my shoulder and is very controllable with its gentle muzzle rise. It works very well with iron sights and scope.

Sissies don't like hogbacks much though, that is true.

Ouch! That hurts as much as the recoil of a .22LR with a Lux stock! Attaboy Arild, you sure showed me what for!

Arild,

RIP has used Mitch Carters 577 Trex I beleive, of calibres Mitch may have fired more accurately than

anyone else in the world, and complimented RIP on being

a natural himself.

Alas we were never able to convince him to take the full step to buying his own 585.

Maybe a good thing if he fires that well-

I don't need any 'naturals' making my hard earned years of flinch-blasting look like it really is.



Karl.

"Sissies don't dare to take the step into the "big league" either, where the real recoil is handled!!

And stays with their "light magnums", such as 375 and 458 Lott and those other light stuff"



"RIP has fired Mitch Carters 577 Trex I beleive (to some level of prowess)".



Which was the only point I made.



As well as Uninformed SOB's seem to be as easily handled as us regular SOB's



Now if you'd been 'not making war' so fiercly , you might have noticed the last half of my post

was actually trying to lighten the mood.



Karl.

Karl.
If I've misunderstod something, I'll be the first to apologize that.
This is an international forum that I've loved for many years now. And I have got a bunch of new friends all over the world, with the same beloved hobby as myself; shooting, hunting, hunting-dogs, and outdoor life.
The fact that not everybody has english as their first-language might, sometimes, be a reason for misunderstandings.
Maybe I'm dumb, but that first "welcome" from RIP, was hard to misunderstand, I think!

I am in a perfectly nice mood, dude!

Arild,
Come on, lighten up! You did some exaggerating about the recoil effects of the beloved hogback, so I had some fun with you.

Ray says I have a head so hard that brain injury would have no effect on my thinking processes, and he said that my body odor is that of a fish. Does that bother me? All in a day's fun.

It does however make me wonder how he knows these things, whether he has talked to my mother ... which makes me break out in a cold, fishy sweat ... Ray is said to get around, and have a lot of bastard children ... this has me worried about my lineage.

Hi Karl, yes I attended Long Island Mitch's school of the big bore and fired 14 3-shot groups at 100 yards off the bench in an indoor range. Most of them were sub-MOA, and they all would have been if Mitch hadn't been using me to test some experimental 900 grain hot loads!

I was a student and a guinea pig. I learned that the torque of the T. rex in even a 14 pound gun makes the rifle want to lie over onto its side and jump off the front rest, even though it wasn't a hogback, but straight and minimum drop stocked.

To prevent the righthand twist of the rifle onto its side one must use his forearm gripping hand differently, keeping the thumb on top of the barrel and gripping hard to prevent the twist.

I left Mitch with a gift for his kindness, as I did burn up 42 rounds of his ammo.

No hard feelings!(anymore)

I see now, that it was me that misundersood the whole thing!
I apologize again!

Happy Holydays!