Mosin recoil...just me?

I find that because the length of pull is so short I pull it off my shoulder slightly sometimes and that can beat you up pretty good. A but pad to increase the LOP and add padding will help...just looks stupid.
 
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I got one of these. Went from being able to shoot 20rds of 182 grn heavy ball from my 19" mosin, and giving up. To shooting all day w/o any issues.
 
You can get a 1" butt pad on Amazon for around $20, they screw in using the stock screw holes for the metal butt plate. They do double duty to reduce the felt recoil and more importantly give you more lop, plus they in no way permenantly modify the rifle. More time shooting it should get you used to the recoil, at least I've always found that for myself.

You might find just using the sling wrapped around your support arm properly and pulling the rifle in tight to your shoulder will help, I've never found the 91/30 to be that brutal but using the sling while shooting my Enfield really helped. I find the brass butt plate on an Enfield a bit punishing if I'm not pulled in tight, plus it helps to stabilize you. I'm a southpaw and that shouldn't matter for recoil.
 
We've got a couple of them, which we shoot with various cheap
surplus ammo and a bit of heavier sporting ammo for science. I'd
put the recoil at more less nothing. Reminds me of my Ross
In .303 British, there is so
little recoil that I often find myself getting bored with the whole thing.
 
54R in a mosin is a relative pussycat for any shooter holding the rifle properly. My 90lbs 13yo daughter shoots my M38 all day long with surplus and no ill effects because she holds the gun properly.

My advice to the OP, tear up your man card and go find something in .22LR. I would also recommend you avoid anything in .303, .30-06, .30-40 Krag, 8mm Mauser, and well, just about anything centre-fire that was not meant for a pistol. Oh and avoid some pistol rounds also, such as .44 Mag or .454 Casul.

DEFINITELY don't buy anything in .45-70, belted magnums, WSM and WSSM rounds, etc.

Or here's an idea - get a shooting coach to teach you proper technique so you can remain a certified member of our entire gender.
 
I am curious how hard the mosin kicks. I have never got to play with one. What can the more experienced people compare it to. I am use to a full wood enfield, target load 12ga and a Win model 70 featherweight in 30-06.

Would be accurate to say that the mosin recoil is somewhere in-between 303 and 30-06?
 
54R in a mosin is a relative pussycat for any shooter holding the rifle properly. My 90lbs 13yo daughter shoots my M38 all day long with surplus and no ill effects because she holds the gun properly.

My advice to the OP, tear up your man card and go find something in .22LR. I would also recommend you avoid anything in .303, .30-06, .30-40 Krag, 8mm Mauser, and well, just about anything centre-fire that was not meant for a pistol. Oh and avoid some pistol rounds also, such as .44 Mag or .454 Casul.

DEFINITELY don't buy anything in .45-70, belted magnums, WSM and WSSM rounds, etc.

Or here's an idea - get a shooting coach to teach you proper technique so you can remain a certified member of our entire gender.

What happened? Didn't take your meds today? Chill out. He asked a question . Did you have to go ape shyt?
 
54R in a mosin is a relative pussycat for any shooter holding the rifle properly. My 90lbs 13yo daughter shoots my M38 all day long with surplus and no ill effects because she holds the gun properly.

My advice to the OP, tear up your man card and go find something in .22LR. I would also recommend you avoid anything in .303, .30-06, .30-40 Krag, 8mm Mauser, and well, just about anything centre-fire that was not meant for a pistol. Oh and avoid some pistol rounds also, such as .44 Mag or .454 Casul.

DEFINITELY don't buy anything in .45-70, belted magnums, WSM and WSSM rounds, etc.

Or here's an idea - get a shooting coach to teach you proper technique so you can remain a certified member of our entire gender.

Thanks for the comment. So all you guys using recoil pads are (according to this A###H#le) ..... pussys. I only asked for advice this type of answer is not needed. Wait till you get arthritis in your shoulder...you will not be so smug.
 
I shot off 40 rds of .30-'06 from my Belgian military Mauser wearing only a T-shirt. Mistake. Took me three weeks to feel normal again.
 
OP, shooting from a bench rest is likely the most brutal form of shooting stances. There just isn't any give in your body.

When you're standing and shooting your body will deflect some of the recoil by moving back with it. When you're sitting behind the rifle and leaning into it on top of keeping as tight a stance as possible your body absorbs all of the recoil.

Your body is telling you something when you find recoil uncomfortable.

It could just be poor technique but not always.

I have never understood why it's cool to wear hearing defenders and shooting glasses but not a Past or some other type of recoil pad.

I have had friends that insisted recoil wasn't bothering them until their retinas became detached or they needed neck and shoulder surgery. There are even some that feel minor brain damage can be done with severe recoil. Whether that would happen with your Mosin is questionable.

There is also the factor about how ergonomic the design of the Mosin stock is for your structural dynamics. Stocks that are to long or to short seem to multiply the effects of recoil.

I also use a Past recoil pad because it's handy and works. I have also recently become enamored with muzzle breaks and have used mercury tubes in the stocks of some rifles for years.

In your case, a slip on recoil pad on the butt, or one of those replacement butt pads that used to be and maybe still are available, units that screw onto your rifle's butt without any fitting or alteration.

Muzzle breaks aren't an option and neither are the mercury recoil absorbers in this case.

IMHO you will find shooting most centerfire firearms uncomfortable and I believe you should get a Past Recoil Pad. They cost less than $30 taxes in.
 
OP, shooting from a bench rest is likely the most brutal form of shooting stances. There just isn't any give in your body.

When you're standing and shooting your body will deflect some of the recoil by moving back with it. When you're sitting behind the rifle and leaning into it on top of keeping as tight a stance as possible your body absorbs all of the recoil.







IMHO you will find shooting most centerfire firearms uncomfortable and I believe you should get a Past Recoil Pad. They cost less than $30 taxes in.

WRONG!

Just for your information, it is prone position
 
You have to shift it to your Pec muscles if you want to shoot more than 15 in a single sitting, like a full auto. That steel buttplate is murder. A slip on recoil pad takes the bits away from a classic rifle hold.
 
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Slip on recoil pad. Mosins fit generally size small for Allen and limbsaver not tested anything else. Both are about the same. I put one of those rubber pads on from amazon hard fix above the steel plate with its screws to my mosin sniper and good lord it does nothing, perhaps makes it worse. Fired about 50 rounds one day and certainly felt it the rest of the week. Great rifle though but compared to the SVT40 it's a mule to the shoulder where the SVT has barely any kick at all.
 
OP it all in how you hold the rifle. As Bearhunter stated it's hard to hold a rifle properly off a bench and your shoulder will get beat up and yes, it hurts. This is why I'll never take children or first time shooters to a bench with high powered rifles...first shot and it turns them off shooting. Sometimes for good.

The butt plate is meant to be on the pectoral muscle off the center of your chest under the collarbone and held firmly to avoid any pounding. While this is easily done when standing, squatting or sitting, it's not easy to do when prone or on a bench. You'll find the upper 'toe' of the butt plate to dig in quite uncomfortably, and if you're actually holding the butt on your shoulder muscles or collar bone it will hurt.
 
Lots of good laughs and good advice in this thread! I think the reason that the Mosin seems to have more felt recoil than similar sized rifles is because
of it's sharp edged steel butt plate.
 
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