low recoil handguns

Less recoil, from any one caliber, will be a combination of being a heavier gun, and one that fits your hand best. Go try out, at least holding a bunch, which ever one is heaviest and fits your hand best, will likely have the least recoil for you. Think steel, maybe a 9mm 1911?
 
The CZ shadow is a heavier steel gun, it soak away quite a bit of kick, and if you reload your ammo, you can use minimum charge of reloading data with a medium burn rate powder, the kick will become very manageable. A lower bore axie pistol also help muzzle control. Anyhow looking for a kickless gun won't help much on this hobby, the only way is to learn how to deal with.

Trigun
 
Recoil is a function of the amount of powder being used and the weight of the bullet. So a .22 is the least likely to produce significant felt recoil (small cartriidge case and light bullet). By contrast, a .44 Magnum with its large case and heavy bullet will produce a great deal of felt recoil. As pointed out above, how the gun fits in your hand goes a long way to lessen felt recoil. Personally, I don't find firing the large handguns much pleasure because I'm small with small hands and recoil affects me. I have friends with large hands who aren't anywhere near as troubled by it. One of the reasons that so many armies use the 9mm cartridge as standard is that it's about as large as most people can comfortably handle without special training. I know a lot of US GIs will say that they qualified with the Government Model .45 and didn't have trouble, but there are a lot of others who did have trouble. 9mm in the autoloader and .38 Special in the revolver are more easily adapted to be most people. But anyone can shoot the larger calibers with training and practice.
 
curtmg said:
Less recoil, from any one caliber, will be a combination of being a heavier gun, and one that fits your hand best. Go try out, at least holding a bunch, which ever one is heaviest and fits your hand best, will likely have the least recoil for you. Think steel, maybe a 9mm 1911?
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+1 on a steel framed 5" 1911, they are solid guns that soak up a lot of recoil. Also look for guns that have the bore axis close to the grip. The higher the barrel is above the grip, the more muzzle flip you get. I have a NP-34 (SIG P228 clone) and it has a light frame with a fairly high barrel position, which results in much snappier recoil than my NP-29 1911 has. I don't find either very bad or objectionable, but the 34 certainly jumps more.

Mark
 
My experience shooting a friend's glock 9mm was that it has an extremely low perceived recoil. Compared to a Browning Hipower in 9mm, its like shooting a water pistol. The plastic and low barrel seem to really cushion the shock.
 
In my experience, the 9mm is a pretty low recoil round and the differences between most 9mm pistols is negligable. One thing you can do to really help reduce muzzle flip is work on strengthening your grip. heavy deadlifts and shrugs are really good for this.
 
Beretta PX4 9mm has a rotating barrel assembly. This absorbs some of the recoil. Makes it very light on the recoil. There are other guns that have a rotating barrel as well. These also have a lighter recoil.
 
From experience: If a .22 isn't available, an all-steel 9mm 1911, with a barstock slide, magazine funnel, and no lightweight parts or grip-bobbing, can be handed to pigtailed, bicycle-framed 14-year old girls who're new to handgunning. They will fire it to slidelock and ask for another mag. Or two.

The recoil impulse on my such pistol, even with CF-issue IVI factory rounds, is less of a whack and more of a firm shove. Quite manageable by everyone I've ever handed the pistol to.

If that helps.
 
I find the HK P30L the "softest" 9mm shooter of all the plastic 9mms that I have tried.
 
ganymede said:
In my experience, the 9mm is a pretty low recoil round and the differences between most 9mm pistols is negligible...
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Having said that, key factors are pistol weight (for inertia, generally, the more the better) and bore-axis (for torque, generally, the lower the bore line in your hand the less torque, the less the better). Steel pistols with full-length dustcovers generally weigh more than polymer pistols. The Hi-Power, CZ-75, 1911, and Glock enjoy lower bores than some other vaunted designs like the USP and XD.

While most pistols in this category will employ a version of Browning's locking system (that has the barrel tilting downward out of engagement), both the Beretta PX4 and the (Grand Power) STI GP6 use a Steyr-Hahn rotating barrel locking system. This produces a very different recoil impulse compared to the others, and a recoil that feels lighter.
 
Although I haven't fired one, the lowest perceived recoil is going to be from a Hi-Point. It is a straight blow back so much less force is transmitted to the frame. Only the spring is attached to the frame so that is the amount of recoil that will be transmitted.

Hey, you asked for a low recoiling pistol, you didn't say it had to be pretty......
 
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