.308 Recoil??

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Going to get myself a .308 I think, been reading about calibers and it got me thinking a little more about the recoil. I have a .303, will the recoil of the .308 be close to the .303?? I just don't want to take anything for granted, so I thought I should ask before I put my money down. Does the .308 really bruise the shoulder, or is it just the boom factor that you need to learn to ignore??

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just a hair more that the 303 and the boom is substantial in my experience hunting moose.
What is it for? moose deer ect or just for kicks ( pardon the pun )
also keep in mind that it depends on the grain. I think there is still a nice Browning with a scope for sale at TSE that looks in really nice shape.
 
Mr.4x4 said:
just a hair more that the 303 and the boom is substantial in my experience hunting moose.
What is it for? moose deer ect or just for kicks ( pardon the pun )
also keep in mind that it depends on the grain. I think there is still a nice Browning with a scope for sale at TSE that looks in really nice shape.
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Want to get into LR shooting. A lot people are pushing .223, but I already have one and would prefer to get into something bigger and .308 seems to have some tradition to it in this role. However, I don't need to be walking away with a bruise everytime out. The .303 has some boom, but it's mind over matter and you concentrate on the target and not what the rifle is going to do once the trigger goes.
 
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the felt recoil is relative to the weight of the rifle and the weight of the bullet your shooting, so yeah it is safe to say a model 70 feather weight with 180 grain bullets will wake you up, yet a heavier rifle will absorb a lot of that felt recoil. I have a bench gun the weighs in at over 18 pounds fully dressed and with 168 grain match loads I can shoot it all day in a t shirt......weather permitting of course.
 
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I have drilled and epoxied a lot of lead shot into areas of the stock but a heavy laminated stock, 26 inch heavy barrel rifle without a scope is close to 11-12 pounds on its own, add rings and scope and your pushing 14 pounds. I have tried to shoot this rig off hand once and it is not an easy task, the barrel starts to droop real quick :D:D
 
The felt recoil is determined by weight of the rifle but more so by the configuration of the stock. The more drop at the comb and heel, the more recoil felt. Ask any trap shooter and they'll tell you a about recoil. The straighter the stock the less recoil. In my opinion the 303 has more drop and will actually have more felt recoil than a model 70. In the old days a rem 700 with a target scope wasall we used for silhoutte and you shoot 40 rnds per match.

8 3/4 lbs for the rifle add rings and scope your still around 10 lbs.
 
The weight of the Savage you are talking aboutis not much different from a fully-dressed Lee-Enfield. Don't expect that in .308 to be significantly worse than shooting your .303.
 
100 lbs cadets (some female) that shoot the fullbore program all summer don't complain about recoil. Of course they are actually holding the rifle, shooting off their elbows with a shooting jacket and sling.
 
i would rather shoot a lightweight 308 tha a 303 jungle carbine, never found the 303 military rifles to deal with the recoil well.
 
I've found the recoil of the .308 to be quite easy to handle with one exception. I was bench resting a friends gun and it wanted to kick back in my face. I damn near got whacked with the scope every shot I took no matter how I held the gun! I believe it was a Savage model 99.
 
The Lee-Enfield has a narrow butt stock. That tends to make the felt recoil more stout. Hunting rifles tend to have wider butt stocks. A wider butt spreads the recoil over more area and lessens the felt recoil somewhat. If you're not having issues with an Enfield, you won't with a .308 either.
"...damn near got whacked with..." Too short of a stock for you and/or the scope is too far back for you. If was your rifle, you could move the scope forward and add a recoil pad for more LOP.
 
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excellent choice love that caliber just about does everything you need........almost as good as 30-06........but comes in lighter rifles.....your choice of rifle you should have no problem with recoil
 
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