I suspect I am not "normally constituted"...
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Lol....I have learned to embrace the inevitability of my own failures. I did a quick calculation and those recoil numbers are similar to what Barnes' loads would give in a .577 NE +750gr bullets in a 12lb rifle. Although I suspect most SxS .577's would weigh a bit more than that.
Ardent
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I suspect that,
-Taylor was genuinely capable of shooting rifles of that class well, routinely.
-I am not yet.
-There is a gentleman's quaint bravado in his statement regarding the recoil.
I know that,
-.500's / .505's kick, with authority, to even the most accustomed shoulder.
-The difference lies solely in whether one can absorb the recoil with, or without fear of it.
-All men of the standard size range get rocked just as hard by a .500 as the next. Taylor included.
-Taylor was genuinely capable of shooting rifles of that class well, routinely.
-I am not yet.
-There is a gentleman's quaint bravado in his statement regarding the recoil.
I know that,
-.500's / .505's kick, with authority, to even the most accustomed shoulder.
-The difference lies solely in whether one can absorb the recoil with, or without fear of it.
-All men of the standard size range get rocked just as hard by a .500 as the next. Taylor included.
Bigfoot 870
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A hardwood, laminated stock would be very suitable!!
I suspect they've chosen wood, and designed the bedding, such that it'll work. We're not talking about a Cooey or something.
After all, trees, houses, apartment buildings, bridges, etc, are held up just fine by well-designed wood...
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And the really big guys absorb every bit of it and really get hammered. I think the 5'11" 160 pound hunter has the advantage over his larger counterparts when shooting really powerful rifles; in that he can move with the recoil impulse. If I couldn't move with the recoil of the rifle, the thought of shooting a .500 would be unbearable. Then if for some reason the piece doubles on you . . .
The following video starts with our hunting partner shooting his M-70 .375, then switches to me getting the basics on handling a double rifle. I messed up the editing at one point and it sounds like 3 rounds are fired from the double rifle . . . good trick huh. But note the muzzle rise on the last shot; I harped the triggers, which happens when the dope on the rifle has just the tip of his finger on the front trigger, as if its a target rifle, and the recoil of the first shot, causes my finger to slip past the front trigger and slap the rear one. Recoil was no worse than firing a single shot, because they were two separate events, but they happened in quick succession causing the rifle to rise high in recoil and the report sound like a single shot.
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Huh, it was the only thing I shot with that rifle that didn't die.
And the really big guys absorb every bit of it and really get hammered. I think the 5'11" 160 pound hunter has the advantage over his larger counterparts when shooting really powerful rifles; in that he can move with the recoil impulse. If I couldn't move with the recoil of the rifle, the thought of shooting a .500 would be unbearable. Then if for some reason the piece doubles on you . . .
The following video starts with our hunting partner shooting his M-70 .375, then switches to me getting the basics on handling a double rifle. I messed up the editing at one point and it sounds like 3 rounds are fired from the double rifle . . . good trick huh. But note the muzzle rise on the last shot; I harped the triggers, which happens when the dope on the rifle has just the tip of his finger on the front trigger, as if its a target rifle, and the recoil of the first shot, causes my finger to slip past the front trigger and slap the rear one. Recoil was no worse than firing a single shot, because they were two separate events, but they happened in quick succession causing the rifle to rise high in recoil and the report sound like a single shot.
I cant get the video to play.
dont know for a Jeffery but the 460 wea mag i shot long long time ago was horrible without brake and unpleasant with .... so it moderates enough for some but not for me ...
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It works for me when I click on the center of the blue square, but you've seen it before. If you want, PM me your email and I'll send it to you that way.
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Not to mention the MK-V stock which really pounds some people.
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You're on a roll this morning, extra sugar in the coffee?
A long time ago I read a very entertaining and well written book by Capstick entitled Death in the Long Grass . If I remember rightly, he writes about Portuguese clients who were quite small in stature who often showed up to hunt with their 460 Weatherbys. They shot them with relative ease and were so accomplished with them he nicknamed the 460 Weatherby as the Portuguese 22.
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The Portuguese are pretty tough people from what I've seen of them, not to mention fiery tempers . . if the .460 had hurt them they'd probably grab it by the barrel and beat it on a rock till nothing was left of either.
I suspect many of you are correct on the recoil effect vs size of shooter.
When I was in High School I used to shoot an old 500 NE double rifle and with me weighing about 145 lbs it was brutal but manageable if handled correctly. It was almost like being in a car wreck if my technique was marginal when practicing jump shooting on rolling car tires. lol
Today with me at 210 lbs, the .375 H&H is enough to satisfy and sometimes seems to kick more than the "memories" of that old 500.
The thing that I find interesting Boomer, is that using a tree was exactly the way I was started, when first firing the 500 NE.
When I was in High School I used to shoot an old 500 NE double rifle and with me weighing about 145 lbs it was brutal but manageable if handled correctly. It was almost like being in a car wreck if my technique was marginal when practicing jump shooting on rolling car tires. lol
Today with me at 210 lbs, the .375 H&H is enough to satisfy and sometimes seems to kick more than the "memories" of that old 500.
The thing that I find interesting Boomer, is that using a tree was exactly the way I was started, when first firing the 500 NE.
