Browning gold Hunter recoil?

[MD]

I finally picked up my previously owned Browning Gold Hunter from a buddy last week. He has a habit of getting guns he doesn't want or need so he sold it to me.

According to Browning it is a 1997.

I tried it out at an unoccupied rural range yesterday morning, trying it out for the first time, patterning it with some different loads, etc.

I found the recoil to be quite a bit sharper than I expected. I have an A5 12 gauge and two Remington 870 shotguns , but this gun gave me quite snap, not something I'd expected from a gas gun.

Maybe it was because I had a light shirt on, not the thicker clothes and often a shoulder pad I usually use for shooting.

Plus, I was banging off old lead #2 and #4 lead shot,(blue plastic Imperial loads) so maybe they recoil more than steel loads.

Is it beneficial to back bore the chamber?

The trigger pull seems heavy too. Do owners of these guns have the trigger pull lightened?

 

[beretta boy]

All things you'd notice shooting at paper rather than game or clay targets.

Those old Imperial loads were pretty brisk !

In shotguns, chambers can sometimes be lengthened (but not back bored ) ( i.e. from 2-3/4" to 3" )

Forcing cones are often lengthened to improve patterns and give the sensation of somewhat reduced (perceived) recoil ... and barrels are "back-bored" to increase their nominal bore diameter ... most often as a means of providing better pattern density.

If your gun is a 12 ga. "Invector Plus" ... it should already be a
three inch-chambered gun with a back bored barrel and a longer than standard forcing cone. Invector Plus barrel & choke boring became standard in 12 ga. Browning's ( Gold's & BPS's) in 1995.

 

[MD]

Thank you bb.

Yes, it is an Invector Plus 12 ga.

 

[ronecol]

I have a Gold Turkey 3 1/2 in. Invector of about the same vintage. The first time I fired it to pattern #4 lead with the turkey choke I too found the recoil to be more than expected. But as Berretta Boy says...it's only noticeable when targeting. I haven't found the trigger pull to be heavy quite frankly. Anyway since that first patterning I killed a few turkeys and 3 deer with and have never given the recoil a second thought since. And it's never once jammed from 2 3/4 to 3 1/2 - it likes them all.

Ron

 

[vetbaird]

be sure it fits as there isn't many softer shooting guns out there. I found the stock a little short on mine. I added a spacer under the recoil pad and then it was a real good fit.