LEAST Recoil in Milsurp

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There was another thread about the most Recoil milsup rifles.

I'd like to know what would have the least recoil be accurate up to 200 yards and have lots of cheap non corrosive ammo available?
 
Definitely the 6.5x55. Flat shooter. Great speed if you reload. Accurate out to 500 yards if you do your part. If I can do it, most anyone can.

And recoil is about .223 level.
 
"...lots of cheap non corrosive ammo available?..." No such thing any more. The days of inexpensive milsurp ammo are long gone.
"...least recoil..." SKS, but accurate they ain't. M1 Rifle's don't have much felt recoil and are accurate out to 200 and beyond. M1 Carbines, though evil, have no recoil and can be accurate out to 200. U.S. shooters use carbines, good ones, out to 300 and M1 Rifles out to 1,000, I think.
 
Any military rifle is going to have mild recoil, they were designed to be fired by any recruit. There is little to nothing out there you'll encounter sporting rifle / .300 Mag and up recoil.

You can forget about the cheap ammo part unless you're willing to shoot Norinco and don't care about your rifle too much, but accuracy is poor anyhow. Semis generally have less recoil than bolt actions due to action cycling absorbing some recoil energy, and they're typically heavier than bolt actions. M1 Garands and M14s of quality are accurate out to 1,000 yards, but not with cheap ammo.
 
Desert Fox has hit it: a .22 trainer is the only thing.

All that .42 Berdan ammo at $4 per 100 is gone. The dollar has shrunk and it is now $6 a round if you can find any. All that $25/1000 8mm never came to Canada because it was easily disposed-of to machine-gunners in the US; the price here never got below DOUBLE the US price except on rare occasion.

A nice combination with little recoil would be an Italian Carcano Fucile 91 but you would have to handload the ammo. Slightly more recoil from the same round would be using the Model 41 Carcano with constant-pitch rifling. Similar would be Greek 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer Rifle (not Carbine) but just try finding one in good shape; there are very few left after 60 years of Bubba Specials.

But all of these are strictly handloading propositions. If you want something with cheap, common ammo, then you are left with a .22 and that's about IT. My Long Branch .22 is wicked accurate at 25 yards, darned decent at 50, but I really think that 200 would be asking just bit MUCH. Elmer Keith or Fred Jensen might have been able to do it but they are gone..... and I am nowhere near their class.
 
Ardent said:
Any military rifle is going to have mild recoil, they were designed to be fired by any recruit. There is little to nothing out there you'll encounter sporting rifle / .300 Mag and up recoil.
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I think shootability by conscripts was far down the list when military rifles were designed. Long Range performance and bayonet fighting were higher priority.

If you had a pimped out delorean and dropped a 300 Mag or the 8x68,and the powders and steels to make them work into the laps of the various commissions around 1888 - 93. I think they would have jumped on them.
 
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Outside of the .22 trainers I'd suggest that the mildest recoil would be from the M1 Carbine. Between shooting something that's around the power of a .357Mag along with the semi auto action spreading out the kick it would likely be softer to shoot than any bolt action rifle.
 
If we can include SMGs (pre C10A days) I say the old Thompson M1A1 CA was a joy to fire with no recoil worth noting. Heavy as an anvil and built like one, ahhhh those where the days.
 
the least recoil?

must be the Suomi 31. it's chambered in 9mm Luger, which is more than plentiful.
Recoil is non existent due to their heavy weight (as long as the barrel doesn't fall off),
and they are on the EE all the time, just wondering why????
 
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